Mamet has become a maple producer in this week’s Deflocked.Jeff Corriveau grew up in maple syrup country and, as someone who did the same and has lived in some other maple-producing areas since, I can see hints of his knowing what he’s actually joking about in this story arc.Which may not seem like much, but […]
On some days, my interest in one strip stems from it being closely related to another. That could be from two strips riffing on the same topic, as with Arlo & Janis:I’m kind of worried about smartphones, because I see them as an extension of the electronic leash, and I used to feel that way […]
There’s a thing going around — oh, sorry — got to start over …There’s a meme – which is much more important than “a thing going around” — that exists under a few different names, but which can be tracked down by Googling “Superman is kind of a dick.” It consists of covers of old DC […]
Gil offers his mother some important consumer advice. Charmingly naive coming from a kid, really annoying coming from your local TV station’s news team.Not that the reporter usually assigned to this one is a whole lot older or more worldly than your eight-year-old.We’ve got a new Hannaford grocery store in town and it’s best, most […]
Perhaps everyone was anticipating Spring, but today spawned three pretty good dog park cartoons. Or, rather, two pretty good dog park cartoons and this Overboard, which is more of a “We need a dog park” cartoon:Our dog park was wiped out in August by the same hurricane and flood that, but for some late night […]
There isn’t a lot of wit in this Tony Auth cartoon, but there isn’t a lot of need for wit on this topic.To start with, most political cartoons use exaggeration to create that humorous irony and there’s nothing left to exaggerate. The situation is already pushed so far to the extreme that you can’t take […]
I hate the oft-repeated nonsense that everyone is Irish on St. Patrick’s Day, but then I’m not so crazy about being Irish on St. Patrick’s Day myself, and I am proud to be Irish the rest of the year, as long as the plastic derbies and fuzzy shamrocks remain well out of sight.However, there is […]
Rico Schacherl, known in these parts as half the Madam & Eve team, has also been cartooning for Finweek, a business weekly in South Africa, where apparently management is just as hip as they are in the United States and elsewhere.Rupert Murdoch doesn’t have a computer on his desk either. I’ll bet he doesn’t even […]
Sid Couchey, best known around the comics industry for his work with Harvey comics, particularly on Richie Rich, Little Lotta and Little Dot, died this past Sunday. Tom Spurgeon has a fine piece on Sid over at Comics Reporter, with links you should check out.Sid was also a large presence in the northeastern tip of […]
As noted before, Bad Reporter’s Don Asmussen regularly faces a challenge of coming up with three good gags on a topical issue.Which he has done here, not only meeting that challenge but also the additional challenge of being more ridiculous than the reality he parodies.That’s quite an accomplishment.Last night, Republicans in Alabama and Mississippi indicated […]
One of the more frequent trials a newspaper editor faces is being polite to the person who has written an over-the-top, potentially libelous but certainly nonsensical letter to the editor and wants to know why it has not been published in the paper.You don’t have to ask if the person on the phone is actually […]
Today’s On The Fastrack cracked me up.A million panhandler cartoons have gone for topical jokes about the economy, but they’re so expected that it’s hard for them to come out of hiding with a punchline. Panhandler with a sign, read the sign, get a laugh, sure. Nothing wrong with them, but nothing surprising, either.And, of […]
“Semi-Classic” in today’s title means that this is actually yesterday’s Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal but I’m on the road this morning and what with the time change and all, I figured being off by 24 or 25 or 23 or however the hell many hours it is wouldn’t be taken amiss or even, perhaps, noticed […]
Pardon My Planet with a two-fer — a funny gag that raises a less hilarious question of whether our standards for truth have slipped or our ease-of-access-without-gatekeepers simply become moreso?The immediate booze gag reminds me of a line of Hallmark cards from back in the days of hipster humor. I had a book of those […]
It’s hard to exaggerate the health care situation for comedic effect, but Edison Lee makes a good go of it this morning, with another episode featuring his re-configured and much more educational version of “The Game of Life.”Explanation for overseas readers: Yes. We live this way.Some countries crash their economies by attempting to give their […]