Bug, as usual, cuts through the veil of maturity. The best Fourth of July stories involve at least chaos, if not mayhem. But chaos plus mayhem will vault a particular year to the top of the memory pile, for sure.It’s been awhile since I was at the chaos and/or mayhem stage of life.My last chaos/mayhem […]
Pearls Before Swine, with a message from God that He really wants me to rant about self-consciously writery writing.Which is to say, He’s a little miffed that the strip Anne Gibbons did for Six Chix yesterday made my short list but then I wrote about something else. So now He’s re-introduced the concept in starker […]
Today marks the 15th anniversary of Hong Kong’s return to Chinese sovereignty, which is a good occasion to remember “The World of Lily Wong,” a cartoon done by an American ex-pat, Larry Feign, who lived in Hong Kong under the Union Jack and, like Lily’s husband in the strip, was married to a Hong Kong […]
Frazz stirs up memories of real-life Calvinball, and all the games I’d play on my own. Some were dumb, some were inventive, all were fun.And playing alone was pretty much a choice. There were plenty of kids in our neighborhood and most of them were home after school and on weekends. Plus, my little brother […]
No surprise that political cartoonists are commenting on yesterday’s Supreme Court decision on the Affordable Care Act. There are roughly a kazillion panels at Daryl Cagle’s site if you want to sort through them. (And, yes, they are still there even if you don’t want to sort through them.)About half of them appear to have […]
This Jim Morin cartoon actually popped up a couple of days ago, but political cartoons get a little latitude on the “of the Day” factor here, since they are, for the most part, intended to last at least a couple of days or maybe even a week.I really like it because I remember Whitewater as […]
In his last animation at Daily Kos before the elections (which is good for him, I guess, but feels kind of like having the surgeon scrub out just as the tricky part of the operation is beginning), Scott Bateman takes an actual Mitt Romney speech and adds a few MST3000 style wiseass comments in the margins: Which is […]
Clay Bennett with yet another example of excellent draftsmanship combined with the right concept. It’s not a terribly common combination. It’s frustrating to see good art wasted in the service of a so-what concept, or, worse, one that can’t quite be made out. But it’s also a shame when a really good idea is only half-realized […]
Lizzie of “Reply All,” explains computer updates and upgrades in language we can all understand.I currently have two semi-working laptops and one that works well.By “semi-working” I mean slightly odd and tweaky, which is acceptable for goofing around but definitely not okay for a telecommuter to work on, since it’s hard to fake productivity when […]
It’s the tiny doll shoes. There are more tiny doll shoes than tiny doll feet, and they breed under sofas and in register grates and the back corners of closets. Tiny doll shoes are the larval stage of pods.At least they were when I was a kid. I, too, was a big brother.But when I […]
Matt Bors had this one ready to roll out as soon as the verdict came in last night, and the Lord’s sideline glance is worth the whole piece. But Bors immediately caught flak on Facebook for the comparison.No, not from the Penn State alums. Which leads to my first observation, which is that commentators kept […]
I love a good barroom joke, and I love a good barroom-pickup joke even more. And I love dogs, so today’s The Other Coast was right down the ol’ pipeline for me.There’s some inaccuracy in this, if you can imagine a cartoonist veering from 100 percent accuracy simply to get a laff. Microchips give you a […]
Matt Davies notes the irony of American criticism of Egyptian attempts at free elections.Now, from the start, it’s important to note that you don’t have to be perfect in order to criticize someone else. It is possible, for instance, to say, “For god’s sake, you don’t want to wind up like us!”But I haven’t discerned […]
The Lockhorns hit on a timely theme, given that I just got back from a week at my youngest’s, looked around my apartment with fresh eyes and said, “Where did all this crap come from?”No Nehru jackets, but plenty of other stuff that evokes the same “Are you kidding me?” response, once you’ve really stopped […]
Sheldon, once more, provides a bit of sea anchor for a world seriously adrift.Note that a sea anchor doesn’t stop the drift entirely. It just slows it down. And, in this case, it may be a case of dangling a piece of dental floss off the side of the ship for all the good it […]