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1. Comic Strip Dan Piraro Bizarro 2018-05-16 pessimistic 
Cartoonist(s): Dan Piraro
Comic/Cartoon: Bizarro
Viewable Date: 2018-05-16 Pub. Date: 2018-05-16
Image Number: 171350
Caption: My glass is half full. My glass is half empty. Where's my beer? Optimist, pessimist, surrealist.
     
2. Comic Strip Mike Peters Mother Goose and Grimm 2018-04-24 pessimistic 
Cartoonist(s): Mike Peters
Comic/Cartoon: Mother Goose and Grimm
Viewable Date: 2018-04-24 Pub. Date: 2018-04-24
Image Number: 170848
Caption: Do you carry a book called "The Power of Positive Thinking"? No. Why not? I didn't think anybody would buy it.
     
3. Comic Strip Mike Lester Mike du Jour 2018-03-09 pessimistic 
Cartoonist(s): Mike Lester
Comic/Cartoon: Mike du Jour
Viewable Date: 2018-03-09 Pub. Date: 2018-03-09
Image Number: 168994
Caption: A Bulgarian proverb … If you wish to drown, do not torture yourself with shallow water. Bulgaria sounds fun.
     
4. Comic Strip Kieran Meehan Pros & Cons 2018-01-02 pessimistic 
Cartoonist(s): Kieran Meehan
Comic/Cartoon: Pros & Cons
Viewable Date: 2018-01-02 Pub. Date: 2018-01-02
Image Number: 166632
Caption: Is there reason for this newfound optimism, Stan? Every year I expect the worst, and every year the worst fails to materialize. Maybe I'm just tired of being pessimistic all the time. More likely it's fate laying a trap for me.
     
5. Comic Strip John Hambrock The Brilliant Mind of Edison Lee 2017-10-17 pessimistic 
Cartoonist(s): John Hambrock
Comic/Cartoon: The Brilliant Mind of Edison Lee
Viewable Date: 2017-10-17 Pub. Date: 2017-10-17
Image Number: 163884
Caption: Ahh … I love the smell of crisp fall air. It means everything is going to be dead soon. Ooo … look at that beautiful flock of geese. Spreading disease across the country. So, how about this great weather? The sun causes cancer, ya know.
     
6. Comic Strip Jerry Van Amerongen Ballard Street 2017-08-18 pessimistic 
Cartoonist(s): Jerry Van Amerongen
Comic/Cartoon: Ballard Street
Viewable Date: 2017-08-18 Pub. Date: 2017-08-18
Image Number: 161101
Caption: Wait! Was that a downer thought just now?
     
7. Comic Strip Darrin Bell Candorville 2017-08-02 pessimistic 
Cartoonist(s): Darrin Bell
Comic/Cartoon: Candorville
Viewable Date: 2017-08-02 Pub. Date: 2017-08-02
Image Number: 161032
Caption: You look happy. I AM happy. The sun's shining, there's a warm breeze and a great view. I mean, sure, someday I'll be too old or sick to enjoy any of that … and sure, someday, I'll be lying on my deathbed, realizing I'll never enjoy any of that again, but ... Um ... Forget I told you you look happy. Thanks a lot, Susan.
     
8. Comic Strip Kieran Meehan Pros & Cons 2017-05-13 pessimistic 
Cartoonist(s): Kieran Meehan
Comic/Cartoon: Pros & Cons
Viewable Date: 2017-05-13 Pub. Date: 2017-05-13
Image Number: 157657
Caption: What's the point in being pessimistic rather than optimistic? I'm never disappointed, and occasionally I'm pleasantly surprised. He's got a point. But is it a good point or just a point?
     
9. Comic Strip Kieran Meehan Pros & Cons 2017-05-12 pessimistic 
Cartoonist(s): Kieran Meehan
Comic/Cartoon: Pros & Cons
Viewable Date: 2017-05-12 Pub. Date: 2017-05-12
Image Number: 157656
Caption: Why are you so pessimistic, Stan? What's the point being optimistic? It's more joyous. Unless, of course, you derive more joy from saying "I told you so."
     
10. Comic Strip Alex Hallatt Arctic Circle 2017-04-28 pessimistic 
Cartoonist(s): Alex Hallatt
Comic/Cartoon: Arctic Circle
Viewable Date: 2017-04-28 Pub. Date: 2017-04-28
Image Number: 157041
Caption: Gordo, would you say my beer glass is half full or half empty? I'm an opportunist.
     
11. Comic Strip Kieran Meehan Pros & Cons 2017-04-17 pessimistic 
Cartoonist(s): Kieran Meehan
Comic/Cartoon: Pros & Cons
Viewable Date: 2017-04-17 Pub. Date: 2017-04-17
Image Number: 156842
Caption: You're morose, Stan. I am not! I only SEEM morose when I'm compared to you, Sophie. And that's because you're interminably optimistic and upbeat. Ah! You can dish it out, but you can't take it.
     
12. Comic Strip Dan Piraro Bizarro 2016-12-03 pessimistic 
Cartoonist(s): Dan Piraro
Comic/Cartoon: Bizarro
Viewable Date: 2016-12-03 Pub. Date: 2016-12-03
Image Number: 151362
Caption: Here. I found some beautiful things and killed them so you could watch them decay.
     
13. Comic Strip Kieran Meehan Pros & Cons 2016-11-26 pessimistic 
Cartoonist(s): Kieran Meehan
Comic/Cartoon: Pros & Cons
Viewable Date: 2016-11-26 Pub. Date: 2016-11-26
Image Number: 151149
Caption: I'm sorry I've been a bit moody lately. A bit moody?! Lately?! So much turmoil and uncertainty … I feel that Armageddon is upon us. A bit moody?! Lately?!
     
14. Comic Strip Bob Thaves King Baloo 1990-01-01 pessimistic 
Cartoonist(s): Bob Thaves
Comic/Cartoon: King Baloo
Viewable Date: 2016-09-13 Pub. Date: 1990-01-01
Image Number: 5884
Caption: I'm glad Hamlet's gone. Nothing cheers that guy up.
     
15. Comic Strip Bob Thaves Tom Thaves Frank and Ernest 2016-08-04 pessimistic 
Cartoonist(s): Bob Thaves Tom Thaves
Comic/Cartoon: Frank and Ernest
Viewable Date: 2016-08-04 Pub. Date: 2016-08-04
Image Number: 147264
Caption: The extreme pessimist. Not only is it half empty, I'll bet it's watered down!
     
16. Comic Strip Jim Toomey Sherman's Lagoon 2016-06-11 pessimistic 
Cartoonist(s): Jim Toomey
Comic/Cartoon: Sherman's Lagoon
Viewable Date: 2016-06-11 Pub. Date: 2016-06-11
Image Number: 144046
Caption: See! They're loading Hawthorne into that red car! Can you read the license plate number? Why? Then we can find their address, and I'll go rescue him! From their underwater home? Always so negative.
     
17. Comic Strip Kieran Meehan Pros & Cons 2016-04-15 pessimistic 
Cartoonist(s): Kieran Meehan
Comic/Cartoon: Pros & Cons
Viewable Date: 2016-04-15 Pub. Date: 2016-04-15
Image Number: 141619
Caption: The world's in a terrible state and it can only get worse. BEFORE it gets better? Sure … why not.
     
18. Comic Strip Kieran Meehan Pros & Cons 2016-04-04 pessimistic 
Cartoonist(s): Kieran Meehan
Comic/Cartoon: Pros & Cons
Viewable Date: 2016-04-04 Pub. Date: 2016-04-04
Image Number: 141235
Caption: If I were of a pessimistic nature, I'd say we're all doomed. As I'm of an optimistic nature, I'll say we're all doomed. See? It's all about delivery.
     
19. Comic Strip J.C. Duffy Fusco Brothers 2016-01-18 pessimistic 
Cartoonist(s): J.C. Duffy
Comic/Cartoon: Fusco Brothers
Viewable Date: 2016-01-18 Pub. Date: 2016-01-18
Image Number: 136232
Caption: What'll it be? It'll probably be a long, sad, lonely life, followed by a slow, lingering death. That's why I think I'll start with something from the bar. Menu.
     
20. Comic Strip Dan Piraro Bizarro 2016-01-01 pessimistic 
Cartoonist(s): Dan Piraro
Comic/Cartoon: Bizarro
Viewable Date: 2016-01-01 Pub. Date: 2016-01-01
Image Number: 136825
Caption: Immigrants & refugees are coming to get you! If assault weapons are outlawed, you won't be able to defend yourself against the government! Watch out for that pillow, it could suffocate you! Alarmist clock.
     
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