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The Weekly Independent Comics Page for May 28, 2020!
On this week's Twitter-fact-checked weekly Independent comics page: The pandemic and our political reality seem to be affecting the author of This Modern World; Jen Sorensen talks to an "expert" about w...
Know Your Neighbors: Meet Jimmy Boegle, the 'Coachella Valley Independent' Founder and Editor Whose Love of Baseball Led Him to Journalism
Jimmy Boegle didn’t start out wanting to be a newspaper editor. What he really wanted to do, since the third-grade, was be around baseball.
“I got into journalism while I was in college,” he says, “bec...
Savage Love: I Was About to Break Up With My Boyfriend—and Then He Got COVID-19; How Do I Avoid Hurting Him Now That He's Better?
I don’t want to become one of those people who write to you complaining about how I married someone I wasn’t sexually compatible with 10 years ago, and now my sex life still sucks. I already know I ne...
The Weekly Independent Comics Page for May 21, 2020!
On this week's hydroxychloroquine-free weekly Independent comics page: The K Chronicles peers into the future from 2016; This Modern World gets some crisis-management tips from Donald Trump; Jen Sorense...
Savage Love: Porn With Nazis Turns Me On; Is This Problematic?
Here’s a non-COVID question for you: I’m a queer white female in a monogamish marriage. I vote left; I abhor hatred and oppression; and I engage in activism when I can. I’m also turned on by power dif...
Summer Stresses: Make Sure Heat and Dangerous Animals Aren't Threats to Your Pets
The heat sure rolled in quickly this year!
OK, a confession: I feel this way every year. If we didn’t have the weather to complain about, we would be miserable! I dread the heat—but I wouldn’t want to ...
The Weekly Independent Comics Page for May 14, 2020!
On this week's weekly Independent comics page, which is now offering curbside pickup: Jen Sorensen looks at how the mailman, in some circles, became the enemy; The K Chronicles celebrates more of Life's...
Know Your Neighbors: Are You Crying More Than Normal During the Pandemic? Yeah, Me Too
When the virus shutdown began, it was difficult for me to acknowledge that I am considered one of the vulnerable ones—someone who’s “elderly.” After all, I know people at least 15 years older than I a...
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