Editorial cartoonist Clyde Peterson (aka C. P. Houston) has passed away.Clyde Enlow Peterson (aka C. P. Houston)May 7, 1942 – January 20, 2025 The Houston Chronicle is reporting the death of its longtime staff editorial cartoonist and illustrator: “CP Houston,” Clyde Peterson signed his cartoons, as if he were speaking for the city itself. Which, […]
“No sport is less organized than Calvinball.” Calvinball was an invention of comic strip showrunner Bill Watterson who said, “People have asked how to play Calvinball. It’s pretty simple: you make up the rules as you go.” The early days of the Trump administration can be usefully understood as Calvinball for (putative) Adults. Colin McEnroe, […]
No politics today. We’ve had two weeks of thinking about horrible things, and I’m taking a day off. But Existential Comics offers something equally unpleasant and I’ll spare a tear for poor Hercules. I enjoyed reading philosophy, which was good, because we had a lot of it. Plato’s chatter about forms got a little esoteric, […]