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The 2012 Elections In Newspaper Comic Strips [Recap]

Unlike CA Senior Writer Chris Sims, who steadfastly scours the funny pages each month for his Funky Winkerbean/Crankshaft chronicle, Funkywatch (to say nothing of his inspiration, Josh Fruhlinger at the daily Comics Curmudgeon blog), there's a good chance you don't indulge in traditional comic strips as much as you'd like. Me? I mostly only dig into traditional funnies around the holidays to be sentimental and, uh, the 2012 Elections were totally a holiday, right? My dose of comic strip nostalgia used to take mere seconds, but since Cathy has been out of the game for two years now, this election I had to scan all of the usual suspects to see what style of humor they'd use to comment on democracy in America. Hit the jump to scan some of the most... election-y... comic strips from November 6.

Yes! Vote! Preferably for the state measures that legalize the stuff everyone at your party came to enjoy in an effort to escape the futility of modern life!
The Lockhorns


Hi and Lois

OH DIIIIIIIIIPPPPPP!!!!!!!! Is this a dig at what's going on in Blondie?! You think Chic Young put a whoopee cushion on Mort Walker's chair at one of those annual Cartoonist Illuminati meetings where they sacrificed virgins to extra-dimensional beings to ensure their strips would run for 200 years back in the day? That's the only rationale I can come up with to justify Hi and Lois copping this kind of 'tude.
Pearls Before Swine

Apathy, everybody.
Non Sequitur

More apathy! Jeez, you'd think these guys were largely financially dependent on a dying industry or something?
Pluggers

Curtis

Dennis the Menace

Barney Google & Snuffy Smith
Bizarro
Slylock Fox

Lastly we have Slylock Fox, which carries on its daily, sisyphean task of having readers point out the minor and often specious differences between two images that appear nearly identical at a glance... which is totally nothing like participating in a democracy dominated by just two parties. I uh, just like Slylock Fox, is all.
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