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Cartoons from This Week’s Issue

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People at a table

Escape Rooms for Middle-Aged People

Work as a team as you and other dads chat about pro sports, college sports, kids (and their sports), while avoiding eye contact, politics, and any hint of vulnerability.

By Charles Yu

Flava Flav with outstretched forearms.

Reality Shows for Your Thirties

“My Super Sweet 36th Birthday” and “Punk’d: Medical Bills” available for streaming now.

By Michael Lukk Litwak

Woman wearing a long floral dress.

The Summer Wardrobe Cometh

The dress that’s so long you drag half of all nature behind you.

By Ruby Elliot

 

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Today’s cartoon, by Maggie Larson:

A nervous-looking person talks to a sympathetic-looking person.

“What if it’s allergies, and a cold, and I’m a hypochondriac?”

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