One of the odder synchronicities I’ve come across. From the top: The parents in Edge City were scheduled to fly off on vacation, but got a call to pick up their son from camp because he has head lice. Maybe he got them from Hammy in Baby Blues. And Agnes can’t afford to go to summer camp […]
Okay, this is beyond my experience. Heart of the City is in an arc in which Heart’s mom is taking her and her buddy Kat to a One Direction concert, One Direction being, as that link will show you, a for-real androgynous pre-teen pre-fab group.(And let me pause here to give Mark Tatulli props for referencing […]
Jeff Danziger is a hip old guy.Most artists think of themselves as pretty hip, but let’s be honest: There is a difference between the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel and the paintings in hotel rooms, and the fact that you draw stuff to make money does not make you an “artist” in the spiritual sense […]
Today’s Dilbert takes me back to the mid-eighties, when I was writing for a real estate magazine in Colorado and used to attend the weekly Realtors breakfast at the Holiday Inn. There were 3,000 members of the Board of Realtors in Colorado Springs and a couple hundred of them would turn up each Wednesday for […]
I feel bad for my landlords, who were told by their insurance company that it wouldn’t cover the house unless they upgraded its ancient wiring. (They’re in the main section, I have the apartment at the back.)Obviously, I feel better about the new wiring, because I’ve made a few trips to the basement to reset circuit […]
Some days, it’s a struggle to find something. Other days, it’s a struggle to narrow it all down.I prefer the latter, but I’m not in a mood to narrow it all down, so let’s have a look at this day of cartoon plenty, in no particular order: Kevin Kallaugher’s latest is yet another cartoon about […]
I dislike political cartoon sites that are set up to present “differing opinions,” because they often — too often — have to dip pretty deep into the barrel to come up with a counterpoint, which then gets equal billing regardless of its actual merit.And it also does not allow for disagreements that aren’t strictly binary.Response […]
(NOTE: Today’s post is not about brilliant cartooning. It is about cartooning as part of local coverage, and local coverage as the forgotten factor in why newspapers once mattered.)My brilliant career as a political cartoonist took place over about a two year period from 2006 to 2008, and was not only short but was only […]
Well, the game is afoot: Edward Snowden is wending his way across the friendly skies in search of a sheltering country. But, as Jack Ohman’s cartoon suggests, it’s a mystery that all these supposedly whiz-bang snoopedy-snoops can’t catch him. I noted earlier that, by proclaiming his guilt, he protected himself from being quietly disappeared. Fair […]
Today’s Bizarro is an excellent example of a silly gag done well.There’s nothing wrong with silly gags in general, but it takes a smart touch to pull them off. It’s not enough to think of the phrase “divine intervention” in this other sense of “intervention,” though, yes, you could get a chuckle from a panel […]
Tony Auth is Philadelphia based, which gives this cartoon a little extra punch: The Jersey Shore took a massive hit in “We Can’t Call It A Hurricane But That’s What It Was Sandy” and that’s a local issue for his part of the world.The shore is back up and running, but, while some of the […]
As I’ve mentioned here before, I don’t often feature David Horsey’s work because he accompanies his cartoons with a well-spoken rant that generally covers anything I would have said. This particular cartoon-and-rant is no exception, but it does give me an opening to go off on another rant without violating the Prime Directive, which is to […]
I could probably rant forever on this topic, but, first of all, Tom the Dancing Bug has covered enough bases that I don’t have to (Seriously, check it out: Seven of the Top 15 grossing Broadway shows are live versions of movies), and second of all … Okay, there’s no “second of all,” except maybe […]
Summer camp story arcs are generally as predictable as “bear trap in the fireplace” cartoons at Christmas, but Deflocked puts its ascerbic POV to good use today.When my oldest was a wee lad, the Colorado Springs Parks & Rec department had a summer program they called “Tot Lot,” which we laughed at because it was […]
Every once in awhile, and Lord knows more often than anyone has a right to expect, xkcd comes out with a major project. In the past, it’s been wonderful, gigantic graphics that would drag you, quite willingly, into a long, minute exploration of some fact that matters or at least reveals.This one is smaller and […]