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Dumbing of Age Animated: Dream Big!

by David M Willis on April 29, 2025 at 1:12 pm
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Hey, Maggie’s doing some Dumbing of Age animations.  DO YOU WANT TO SEE DOROTHY AND JOYCE RIDE A DREAM HORSE of course you fuckin’ do

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$50K Book 14 Kickstarter update: JACOB MAGNET tier unlocked!

by David M Willis on April 29, 2025 at 9:12 am
Posted In: Blog

The Dumbing of Age Book 14 Kickstarter is finally past $50k! And that means JACOB is unlocked! Pledge at the JACOB MAGNET tier to get a Jacob magnet along with your book! (And don’t forget you get a free DOROTHY magnet in there too!) Or if you’re aiming for Jacob plus two or four other magnets of your choosing, huzzah, there’s the PICK THREE or PICK FIVE MAGNETS tiers! And if you want all of them unlocked during this campaign? Well, there’s a few tiers that hand you COMPLETE MAGNET POWER!

Up next are LIPSYNCING LUCY at $55K and…. DREAM HORSE at $60k!  That’s right, it’s Dorothy and Joyce on a horse!  Let’s make DREAM HORSE happen!

One week remaining!  This thing ends next Tuesday just before midnight (Eastern)!  So pledge today!  or between now and then, whichever

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Patreon bonus strip for APRIL 2025 — KAITLIN

by David M Willis on April 27, 2025 at 2:09 pm
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Every month at the Dumbing of Age Patreon there’s two new exclusive bonus strips — one that patrons get to vote on, and another that’s my choice!  This month, folks voted for KAITLIN, Becky’s former roommate at her original college who was gay exactly once and then stopped that forever after she learned her lesson, probably! Read this bonus strip and hundreds of previous at the Dumbing of Age Patreon!

Also, if you pledge up to $5 or more per month, you can read TOMORROW’s strip RIGHT NOW, every day!

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Free Comic Book Day (May 3) signing at Laughing Ogre Comics!

by David M Willis on April 23, 2025 at 4:39 pm
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Free Comic Book Day is coming Saturday, May 3, and Laughing Ogre Comics in Columbus, Ohio, is featuring some local cartoonists!  And guess what?  I’m local cartoonists!  So from noon to 2pm, you’ll find me at a table inside the store.  I’ll have some Dumbing of Age books, bookmarks, and probably some magnets!

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$46,354 Kickstarter update: Surprise BEATRICE MAGNET tier revealed!

by David M Willis on April 21, 2025 at 10:01 am
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Dumbing of Age Book 14 Kickstarter update: It’s time for one final SURPRISE magnet unveiling this year!  At the incredibly important and not at all random number of $46,354, we’re throwing down the gauntlet of BEATRICE!  She’s one of the few remaining members of Lucy’s dorm crew that’ve yet to get a magnet!  And she’s technically in this book!  unlike zaph, sorry zaph

Pledge at the BEATRICE MAGNET tier to get her tucked into your signed/doodled Book 14 along with the free DOROTHY magnet!  Or choose to get her and a handful of others at either the PICK THREE or PICK FIVE MAGNETS tiers!  Or go whole-hog with the COMPLETE MAGNET POWER tier and get every magnet unlocked in this campaign!

Next up: JACOB unlocks at $50K, LIPSYNC LUCY unlocks at $55k, and I’m announcing now there will be a THIRTEENTH magnet this year if we pass $60K, and it’s a big’un.  So big it’ll have eight legs!  To help get us there, pledge today!

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fantastic foreskins
tweet screenshot:

“Fantastic Four skins are coming to Fortnite
It is one of the most wanted collabs ever
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I need more Muslim characters! Or at least more prominent ones who aren't Raidah. It is a huge giant hole in my strip that makes it suck. The current storyline would've been way better if they existed. But they don't, and no amount of throwing Asma in for three strips solves it.
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never in a million years thought i'd have to convince anybody JOYCE was queer always thought dorothy was the harder sell
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That one Real Life Comic strip Tha cracked a million eggs.
Further on in the RLC comics run, where Mae says that the stuff she liked that she thought made her a man is just stuff, and that it doesn't mean anything.
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TRANS WOMEN OF BLUESKY: What was your egg cracking moment? When did you know you were trans? What made you realize? And did you know you were a woman right away, or did you pass through other identities first
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wilding out at this old becky profile
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Also, I see we're bringing back the ol' love octagon.
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It worked! Thanks, Joe! Also, sorry, Joe.
Joe:
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I think you mean Poop. Prints don't drop from the butt.
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Happy Nonbinary People's Day, you gemstones. A year or two back we introduced FLASH GORDON's first enby, the outlaw lawman Bones Malock. Having known and loved a lot of nonbinary people, I knew the truest way to represent you was as a unsettling desert pirate with a lightning sword
Flash Gordon's Bones Malock:
Bones Malock, under captions reading:
Bones Malock and Flash Gordon.

Flash: Okay... wait thirty seconds, then give me a distraction.

Bones: Got just the thing.

Flash: Do NOT blow the place up.

Bones: You're the boss.
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Happy International Non-Binary People's Day to all those who work, create, parent, protest, love and live without ever fitting into someone else's category.
header image - a yellow purple and black flag flies in the wind
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a yellow purple and black flag flies in the wind
Alt: Non-binary flag blowing in the wind
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A blond female Philly Phanatic says
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Mood
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Nice.
A screenshot of the Dumbing of Age archives, showing the chapter titles of Book 15 and their respective number of strips. Chapter 4,
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Okay, everyone's jumping to conclusions, but Joyce was hit with a mysterious pink gas in Thursday's strip. Now, in recent years, the police are known to increasingly use military grade weapons. Which reminded me of this bit of proposed technology from the 1990s: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gay_bomb
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Gay bomb - Wikipedia
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I ain't readin' all that!
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that's not the end!  there's more tomorrow, already on patreon!...
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hey, kid, what do you want to play with from the cool superhero movie? is it a nude, melting senator who feels like a stretch armstrong doll that has been left out in the son and maybe mildly chewed by a neighborhood dog? WELL, SON, YOU'RE IN LUCK!
the most upsetting toy of all time: a small and horrible statue of melting, nude Senator Kelly from the first x-men film
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James Gunn i demand u bring back Conservative Superman
Superman shaking Jared Fogle’s hand
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Sal and Danny saw you from across the room and enjoy your vibe.
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trying to voice recognition a search for superman's actor
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I want YOU to transform Autobot City (with generous green spaces, affordable public transport and amenities, and plentiful social initiatives)
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welp back to drawing comics featuring a character you can't see yet for like 11 months
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Then they came for the sarcastic people and I was like oh great that's exactly what we need right now well done to all concerned.
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Dorothy: You can't just follow me into fire! Joyce: You don't want me following you into fire? Then don't run into fire!
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today in #9chickweedlane i learned i apparently gotta go see if "correlate" has an archaic definition that means something nonsense
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Virginia Barksdale @virginiabarksdale.bsky.social ⋅ 3d
screaming, crying, throwing up, Pete the Peacock is real, I feel lesbian God in this chili's tonight
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