Broadside (comic strip)

{{Short description|American comic strip by Jeff Bacon}}

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Broadside is a weekly, single-panel comic published in Navy Times from 1986 until March 2020, and written by Jeff Bacon.{{cite web|title=Broadside Cartoonist Jeff Bacon Embarks Peleliu|url=http://www.navy.mil/submit/display.asp?story_id=35882|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121001164956/http://www.navy.mil/submit/display.asp?story_id=35882|url-status=dead|archive-date=October 1, 2012|website=United States Navy}}{{cite web|title=An interview with jeff bacon creator of the broadside|url=http://militaryoneclick.com/an-interview-with-jeff-bacon-creator-of-the-broadside/}} The humor is very specifically directed at United States Navy personnel, and considered nearly incomprehensible by many non-Navy servicepersons. Bacon also drew a second cartoon called Greenside, featuring United States Marine Corps personnel. Broadside continues to be published online.{{cn|date=April 2021}}

Broadside cartoons have been printed in numerous government publications, professional papers, and often can be seen adorning the walls of military spaces and cubicles.{{citation needed|date=January 2021}} The cartoons have been displayed at the Navy Art Gallery and the Navy Memorial in Washington, D.C.,{{citation needed|date=January 2021}} and have been published in four books: The Best of Broadside, Book II: the Rest of Broadside, and 20 Years of Broadside, and Underway with Broadside.{{cite book|author=Jeff Bacon|title=20 Years of Broadside|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SrV9GgAACAAJ|year=2006|publisher=Deep Water Publishing|isbn=978-1-881651-20-8}}