We’ll let Kirk Walters start the conversation with a joke, and I not only laughed because it’s funny but because I had been tossing a similar gag around in my head.In my version, New Orleans Saints protest the results of their game against the Broncos on the basis that there shouldn’t be a rule allowing […]
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal touches on one of my most despised “clever comments” on social media, and puts it into very sharp focus.There are any number of memes floating around about how people have never used algebra, and they’ll flourish again, now that the election is over.It’s annoyingly stupid on one level, but, on another, […]
The Buckets raises an issue I’ve pondered for years, which perhaps is why I’ve thought it through even more than she has.Yes, the Invisible Man would be blind.But, worse, he wouldn’t be invisible, either, unless he went on a substantial fast and then had some extremely effective, pre-colonscopy-level clean-outs. Worst superpower ever.I know, I know: I’m […]
Between Friends offers something of a surprise in cartoon families: A healthy mother/daughter relationship, and I’m looking forward to seeing how Susan’s trip to visit her daughter at college plays out.It feels strange to praise a cartoon for what it is not, but my job would be easier (and cartoonists jobs harder) if they didn’t […]
I find myself with a lot, and yet nothing, to say, so I’m going to send you off to places like the Nib, where 10 cartoonists vent their feelings about the election, not all of which I agree with. I like Luke Howard’s take, I suspect, because he matches my ambivalence: On the one hand, […]
I really want to avoid the obvious topic, and Baby Blues made me smile because backyard chickens are becoming a suburban fad and, yeah, if you only have half a dozen and you weren’t raised to look upon them as developing into food, well, they won’t.In an earlier time — like, when “Charlotte’s Web” was […]
I’ve always liked this classic Ron Cobb cartoon, which dates back to the Sixties.I don’t suppose you could do a modern version, since it would be hard to indicate that he was holding a smashed phone, trying to get a signal, looking for a place to recharge it, and still show the stunned look on his […]
I’ll be off to vote as soon as I finish up here, and I hope you vote, too, but I’ve had enough of the talk. If you haven’t made up your mind by now you may not have a mind to make up, so what’s the point?And as the Dogs of C-Kennel note, it’s been […]
(Edison Lee) (Kevin Kallaugher)An odd Juxtaposition, but these are odd times, at least in the United States.I share some of Edison’s father’s laid-back attitude at this stage, because I’ve been here before, sort of.It often drove me crazy during the campaign, mostly on specific topics that younger people were interpreting in ways that suggested they […]
Since reviews often include disclaimers, like admitting that the book was provided for free, in order to establish the reviewer’s neutrality and objectivity, let me start with a sort of opposite “claimer:”I bought this book and anticipated liking it and probably — if only in deference to the Prime Directive — would have maintained silence had I […]
We’ll repeat yesterday’s process of beginning with the inescapable political stuff and then going to the Laffs Section, and Jack Ohman leads off with this compete analysis of the “Undecided Voter,” which also does a good job of commenting on the nitwits who think it makes them sound wise to say “They’re both the same.”Honestly, […]
We’ll start with politics and work our way to less unpleasant topics. Bill Day makes a simple point with a simple cartoon, and one that is not only germane to the ridiculous “worst president ever” claims appearing on social media — even if you don’t like him, you’d have to be totally ignorant of history […]
Let this empty frame stand in for all the “after I voted I had to shower” cartoons that don’t deserve to be juxtaposed. When I juxtapose — which I’ll be doing today — it’s to show differing takes, not a collection of no takes at all.I was in a liquor store once and heard someone ask […]
Might as well start with a leftover from yesterday, which is that Truth Facts is not always quite in gear with American culture, because, while I remember “Movember,” I think it’s almost universally called “No-Shave November” now, at least here.It started with guys growing mustaches, hence the “M” in “Movember,” but quickly turned into not […]
(Real Life Adventures) (Sally Forth)Let’s start off with the Juxtaposition of the Day, because the alternative is to run a selection of day-after-Halloween cartoons and I do, indeed, have a lot of candy to do something with, but the prospect of Thanksgiving dinner is funnier.And, as suggested, more scary. I’m with Ted.I’d also add that […]