Between the Lines (comic strip)

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Between The Lines is a newspaper comic by Max Garcia. The strip only runs in the New York Daily News. It is a one-panel gag-a-day strip in the style of The Far Side, but horribly abuses Black Comedy, even more than The Far Side, to the point where it sometimes seems like Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal toned down just enough to be a newspaper comic. The strip started February 27, 2011 and has not stopped since (except for a hiatus that occurred between the dates of May 28, 2012 and June 11, 2012).[please verify] A small Strip Archive is on this Facebook page.

Not to be confused with the web comic. Or the TV show. Or Between the Lions.

Tropes used in Between the Lines (comic strip) include:
  • Black Comedy: Every other strip.
  • Fake Rabies: There was a depressing strip where a dog had just finished eating some honey offered to him by a cat. The owners then think he's rabid, and the last panel shows the dog's tombstone as the cat smirks smugly.
  • High on Catnip: One strip shows a cat buying a sack of catnip from another, shady-looking cat, in the style of drug-dealing.
  • I Call It Vera: One strip has a brutal thug taking out a knife labeled "Kindness", with a crowd of people laughing and one saying "Yeah right! What are you gonna kill us with?
  • Refuge in Audacity: Some of the really unfunny Black Comedy gags could count.
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