Cartoon Movement features Portuguese cartoonist Vasco Gargalo’s “Aleppo,” an updating of Picasso’s classic “Guernica.”I’ll admit that my initial response was tepid, though I appreciated the historic parallel, in which the destruction of Guernica presaged the horrors of World War II.But the more I pondered that parallel, the more I liked it, so that, the second time […]
Between Friends introduces today’s theme of “self-image and self-deception,” and I wonder, not how many hair dressers will clip-and-post it, because it’s a natural for them, but how many will stick it up in the back room for their own amusement versus sticking it up where the customers can see it.One different between a barber […]
Here’s one page of a longer Lauren Weinstein cartoon about children and memories, and how nice it would be if we could ensure that our kids remembered the good things.Go read the rest; it’s not all that long and it’s worth the time.A hat tip to Sarah Laing for that, and hardly surprising, since it […]
I’m not sure what significance, if any, those “we cannot be held responsible” signs actually have, but Danae is intent on finding out in the current Non Sequitur story arc. The most common sighting in my world is in supermarket parking lots, where the store cannot be held responsible for damage done to your car by […]
Pat Bagley is hardly the first, let alone the only, one to mock the logical gymnastics required of Trump loyalists lately, but he did it well and that’s an important part of the task: Not just to have an idea, but to convey it.There is, after all, a “tree falling in the desert” element to a […]
The traditional “How We Know It’s Canadian” example in cartooning is the red mailboxes in “For Better or For Worse,” one of the ways in which Lynn Johnston famously declined to strip FBOFW of its roots or, if you like, its Roots.Today’s Ben also betrays the fact that the strip is Canadian and, even moreso, […]
Sometimes more is more, as witness the latest K Chronicles, in which Keith Knight takes on the “in my day” statement of Clint Eastwood.He’s not the first cartoonist to go after Eastwood’s remarks, and it should be noted that the statement itself is so overwhelmingly foolish as to invite both refutation and ridicule. There are a […]
The first point to ponder today came from Rip Kirby, who is being targeted by a rich, beautiful woman who has asked for his help with an extortion threat, but we know she’s setting him up, and now he has apparently tumbled to the scam, or, at least, he knows it’s not all kosher.What struck me this morning […]
Let’s warm up with Wumo, which raises the question, if this is what Heaven is like, how bad could Hell be?Maybe the one in Hell asks for specific dates, credit card numbers, etc. And note that the one for Heaven is on a clipboard. The one in Hell is on-line, which sounds much better — […]
Pajama Diaries has always provided me with smiles, as Jill works within the home-office atmosphere I adopted for many years. But as the girls morph into teens, it’s taking on new elements of nostalgia. Jill (and cartoonist Terri Libenson) have a pair of girls while I had a pair of boys, but there are plenty […]
… and if that headline touched off an earworm, you’re one of the old folks. And if you’re one of the young folks, here’s your trigger warning: Don’t click that link, because it contains cultural history you prob’ly won’t like. (I learned it as “Mission Sunday School,” which sanitizes it a bit. No, not much.)Anyway, […]
“Libertarian!”In today’s “New Yorker Daily Cartoon,” Kim Warp raises a question that perplexes but only occasionally infuriates me. I understand why cats go leash-free, though I know people who walk their cats on leashes and good for them. But cats are only marginally domesticated and, while they are interesting companions in their own off-beat way, they’re […]
One of the strengths of Pros and Cons is that, by combining a cop, a lawyer, a psychologist and a cafe owner, Kieran Meehan offers himself a cast with the diversity to make a lot of gags work well.Because it’s such a small cast — the four majors and a very small number of recurring extras […]
I don’t often promo new strips, because even with a full development process, they tend to start out a little rough and only find their legs with time.However, Ali’s House is so timely that I’m going to give them a chance to be overly sincere for a few weeks while they establish characters and setting. […]
Zits brings to mind a fellow who, back in the 60s and 70s, used to advertise a book called “How to Pick Up Girls” in the back of various magazines. We used to make fun of it, but, then again, it’s not like it went away. Somebody was buying it.Leave aside for the moment the […]