The issue of internships came up here Saturday in the comments section, and it’s a hot topic I had already intended to take up, which I’ll do now, starting with Heart of the City, where Dean is no longer up to the task of fulfilling Heart’s every whim and she seeks a new go-fer.The punchline […]
Real Life Adventures indeed. The only thing more dreaded than an all-hands meeting these days is that age-old perennial one: An invitation to coffee in a public place. Of course, that latter situation is sometimes a relief. I’ve sipped from the fatal cup of joe twice and, in both cases, I kind of knew it was […]
Ruben Bolling riffs on one of the more puzzling and ultimately depressing aspects of “those darned kids” — the way 18-to-20s are treated as half-citizens. And he’s right in his “what if it were any other demographic?” reductio.My question is, is this a call to arms for the 18-to-20s, or is he asking everyone to […]
So the latest thing is using fingerprints instead of passwords, and passwords will now become as passé as blogs and laptops, according to the Great Gods of Silicon. Which is like Gatorade announcing that it has some great new flavors and the basic green flavor simply isn’t cool anymore, except that there aren’t a lot […]
(EDITOR’S NOTE: The editorial-cartooning wing of comics is temporarily out of service due to half of the commentary being 9/11 Hallmark cards and the other half evenly divided between those that are woefully outdated and irrelevant due to the Russian proposal and those consisting of laments, partisan gainsaying and outright tantrums from cartoonists pissed that […]
One of the advantages of web commentary over syndicated commentary is the speed with which you can change directions. It’s a little unclear where things are going in Syria, and, while people determined to hold onto their set opinions don’t have a problem, rethinking an issue on deadline can get tricky.Still, a few syndicated cartoonists […]
John Lewis, together with Andrew Aydin and cartoonist Nate Powell, has put together the first volume of a history that needs to be told, and read, and absorbed.Today’s blog entry begins as “March, Book One” begins, on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, where a peaceful march was attacked, first by Alabama State Troopers, […]
Kevin Kallaugher neatly explains what’s going on. It is a riff, of course, on one of the absolute classics of The Far Side, which was followed by a second take, both of which adorned the bulletin board in my kitchen until they were quite yellow and curled, or possibly until I moved, I forget which.And […]
Luann Cartoonist Greg Evans and I are roughly of an age, and there is always, at the age we are roughly of, the nagging doubt about how much the world has changed and how much is just you getting old.Some of it is the inevitable process of aging. There genuinely is a mosquito ring tone […]
Back when Ellen Degeneres was a standup, before she became a skinny white Oprah, she had a gag in her act that went, “My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She’s ninety-seven now, and we don’t know where the hell she is.”It’s not just a great joke, but it’s a […]
Couple of quickies before we get to the hard core issue of the day:Two minds with but a single thought: This pairing ranks as one of the more odd coincidences I’ve seen on the comics page lately, since I haven’t seen anything about bananas in the news or rocketing around social media. I’m kind of […]
This blog is generally chicken one day and feathers the next. This was definitely a day of chickens, with such a banquet of good stuff that I had to eliminate some that would have been the only focus on another day.Let’s start with some interesting beginnings: “Mark Trail” is not generally known for incisive storytelling […]
Keith Knight addresses the plight of the Oppressed White Man, deprived of his civil rights by, well, the rise of civil rights over the past half-century.Which is to say most of the whiners weren’t even born when their right to be ignorant was revoked.Or at least watered-down by being shared. Today, thanks to the progress […]
I remember, back in the days when I believed good work would find a spot, and when I believed I knew how to define good work, and when I believed that the world needed one more introspective novel about college, being particularly incensed when a genuinely-bad-by-any-measure college novel was published not only to some fanfare […]
Dylan Horrocks posted a link to this comic on Facebook, with the brief message “Read this comic by Pat Grant right now. Just read it, OK? Now. (you won’t forget it, ever)”I’m tempted to just say “I agree” and sign off, but I’ll take things a little bit further. However, any substantive commentary on the piece would […]