Timing is everything in comedy, but Michael Cavna takes it to a surreal level.Or possibly he doesn’t have an option to set up his cartoons to post at a particular time and had to get this up before he knocked off for the weekend.But I laughed harder today than I would have tomorrow. Though, as Matt […]
Maybe the kind of random nature of Arlo & Janis humor is why it strikes me so often — ping pong balls in a roomful of mousetraps or something — but the cost of rabbit happened to be on my mind the other day.Rabbits are easy to raise, famously prolific and do indeed taste like […]
Big Nate knocked me off my chair this morning. I’m finishing up next week’s issue today and had two movie reviews that were coming in last night, since the press previews were held in the past 36 hours.Both arrived, as promised, at the last minute. One said “Sorry it’s a bit long, this movie had […]
Company Man gets top billing today out of sheer luck and good timing. I haven’t tried Halo Top, but I picked up a bag of Beanitos the other day.Beanitos is a bean-based Cheetos knock-off. I was on the road and just wanted something to eat in the car, and I’ll say this: If I’d picked up […]
Pajama Diaries is one of the strips that I probably feature too often: Either you’ve figured out that you should be reading it on your own or you never will, and if you’ve decided you don’t like it, you’re likely sick of seeing it here. However, Terri Libenson approaches topics that other cartoonists have also […]
Okay, now THAT was a nothingburger!The only real news was the scene in the parking lot, which was more specific than the general rumblings of “I’ve been threatened” but, then again, provided no details. It would have been nice if she’d said she told the receptionist at the fitness center “You won’t believe what just […]
The first order of business on this delightfully non-eventful day — unless you’re reading this after Stormy’s been on 60 Minutes — is to offer belated congrats to Clay Bennett for winning the Overseas Press Club’s Nast Award, which he did several days ago while I was obsessed with other issues.The above is a cartoon […]
Zits Baby Blues Off the Mark Rhymes With OrangeI’ve been frustrated lately that political issues seem so compelling and we are at such a flash point that I have not been balancing my coverage of editorial cartoons with the attention that comic strips deserve.So here are four cartoons from this morning’s funny pages.Apparently, I’m not […]
The order in which I read comics in the morning is intentional: I warm up with strips and save the editorial/political stuff mostly for the end, after which I go to Facebook and Twitter to look for cartoons that haven’t hit the syndicate sites yet.So I was impressed with the Bad Reporter posted at GoComics […]
The Facebook thing isn’t going away, and it’s probably less a testament to the harm done than a testament to Facebook’s ubiquity and how we all love a pile-on.Tom the Dancing Bug has a nice roundup of complaints, though I’d argue with him, or at least with them, on the one at the upper right, […]
I wasn’t sure where to begin today, but Matt Bors offers a nice meld of the Facebook issue and our national governance crisis.Bors often depicts a level of something I’m hesitant to call “paranoia” but which is based on an assumption of purpose and intent that I think the world largely lacks. That is, people […]
I’m gonna start today with a Non Sequitur that made me say, “Do they still do that?”My granddaughter called with a tax question the other day and, since it was a minor change that didn’t affect the final total and she’d already filed, I told her to forget it, because we’ve stripped the IRS budget […]
Joy of Tech takes on the Cambridge Analytica case, and, because it’s a multi-panel cartoon, it’s possible to agree with parts of their take and disagree with others.First of all, here’s a complete takedown on what happened and why, (it’s long; read it later) and it ought to both scare and infuriate you.It should scare […]
It’s been a while since Rex Morgan did his MD thing, and I’m hoping he comes up with something odd and interesting to explain why his babysitter’s friend can’t swallow without choking.He did have a patient with Alzheimers not all that long ago, but it was tangled up in a welter of personal relationships such […]
We’ll give Marty Two Bulls Sr. top billing on this St. Patrick’s Day, because there’s no joke an Irishman likes better than seeing the tables turned, especially when served up with a dose of justice.Two Bulls is observing the common, and offensive, nature of dubious ethnic claims, made without humor by Buffy St. Marie:Can you […]