The Daily Comic Strip Olympics

You just can't escape the 2008 Summer Olympics.  You can try, but you will fail.  Even our favorite comic strip characters are getting into the act, albeit in the dumbest ways possible. Since Michael Phelps has won enough medals already (I think he's up to 25 now), we here at GEP thought we'd hand out some medals to our "favorite" funnies.

And the bronze medal goes to...BLONDIE

Dagwood and his equally hideous, thin-haired son have got a severe case of Olympic fever, apparently so bad it has started affecting their judgement and common sense:

I didn't hear about this.  Why didn't I hear about this?

Dagwood loves food!  Oh, Dagwood, you slightly racist glutton you.

And the silver medal goes to...THE FAMILY CIRCUS
Actually, Billy, fortune cookies originated in Japan, so if you handed a Chinese person a fortune cookie at the end of a meal (or, I assume, while they are standing on a podium at the Olympics) they wouldn't know what the hell to do with it.  So, Billy, in this case, you are a complete idiot.

And the gold medal goes to...SALLY FORTH

Congrats, guy who writes Sally Forth, you made an observation in your August 19, 2008 comic strip that I was already sick of hearing about on the news six months before the Olympics even began!  You truly are a humanitarian, sir.  You're indictment of the Chinese government is both lazy and several decades too late.