I don’t know too much about Joe Heller personally, but I think he’s got some country in him.When I got to college in the fall of 1967, I found myself in the middle. My college friends were against the war, and I agreed with them that it was a foreign relations disaster. We needed to […]
Kevin Kallaugher touches on one of our more disturbing, but disturbingly unfocused, issues.And he does it very effectively, because a major part of the drone controversy is less the drones themselves and more the way their use is, so to speak, flying below the radar.That is, you can’t expect every drone strike to be announced, […]
Brewster Rockit has a pretty good success rate in translating geeky stuff into mainstream humor.It’s an interesting niche, an approach not to be confused with that of strips like xkcd, SMBC or Penny Arcade, which produce geek humor for use within the geek community, on a level that would go over the heads of most […]
Shirley & Son has been bumming me out lately.The current arc is about Shirley deciding to try a dating service and, if you look at the panels closely, you’ll see it ran in the last part of March and first part of April, 2003.Jerry Bittle, the cartoonist behind the long-running Geech and this newer strip […]
Harry Bliss about something or other.Gotta go walk the dog. I’ll deal with this as soon as I’ve taken care of that.Although I really should get the dishes done …
Tom Toles notes the lack of response to what appears, to all scientists except those at the No Longer The Tobacco Institute Research Laboratory, a crisis significantly hastened, if not spawned, by the world’s increasing industrialization and overall modernity.Which is to say, we have met the enemy and he is us, but as long as […]
And Don Asmussen makes the choosing easy today by executing a flawless triple-play.I’ve mentioned this before, but Bad Reporter sets up a tough challenge for itself, and there are many days when I read it and two are good and then, like watching a long field goal drift to the right, there’s that “doink” as […]
Clay Bennett lays out the agenda for the next Congress and everyone else as well.And it won’t matter whether the curtain goes up on My Fair Lady or Drat! The Cat! The critics have spoken before opening night.It’s important to differentiate, not so much between the previous Congress and this upcoming one as between making […]
Transposition of the day: On my Facebook newsfeed, Rico Schacheral had linked these words of wisdom to aspiring writers, to which I commented that writers should quit reading about writing and actually write something. Not that I want to upset the lucrative trade in catering to dreamers, mind you. Not when I have an exercise bike […]
Sherman’s Lagoon operates from a cheerful, light-hearted, relentless predator’s perspective that makes it only natural that one of the strip’s book collections is entitled “Poodle: The Other White Meat.” It also has some of the best Bob Newhart timing on the comics page. Those two factors came together today, as they often do, but even better […]
Drew Sheneman’s Congressional puppy not only draws on the popular Dog Shaming meme, but ties in with a link-and-conversation I had on Facebook yesterday with Owen Dunne. Owen posted this link to an article about research on how on-line comments undermine the content of an article, and, specifically, work against people learning anything about science. I […]
David Horsey’s artwork is so pleasing to the eye that he can get away with some conceptual whiffs. But, when he hits one, it goes a country mile.I particularly like this cartoon for what it isn’t: Too many cartoonists have pointed out that we still have to deal with the debt ceiling, including several who […]
The Heart of Juliet Jones was broken on a fairly regular basis, and the current rerun at DailyInk has her falling for a feckless (Note to Irish readers: That’s not what it means) architect, who dreams great artistic thoughts but doesn’t seem to ever buckle down and get to what other people would recognize as […]
Over at the Mad Magazine blog, they’ve been having various staffers pick their favorite back covers as part of the magazine’s 60th Anniversary.So far, the choices had been ones that came after I’d stopped reading Mad, but this one is well-imprinted on my memory. The artist is Frank Frazetta, most of whose unequalled, astonishing work is […]
I’ve now seen 61 New Years and, if I were a month older, this would have been #62.The thrill is gone. Both because they really do speed up — 1/60th goes by pretty fast — and because, as Derf notes, 2012 was nothing to build a monument to. On the other hand, Derf himself had a […]