Keith Knight with a dignified tribute to a dignified man. I never quite got how Don Cornelius, who seemed so grown-up and cool-in-the-dispassionate-sense fit in with the music he featured. But that was part of the deal, and, while it was good to bring soul to mainstream audiences, I was old enough by then to […]
Doonesbury is gearing up for the elections with an arc about “facts.”I wouldn’t worry too much about all the people who must have been laid off when Big Tobacco finally surrendered. I think the professional liars of the Tobacco Institute landed good jobs at various think tanks around the country where they come up with […]
This isn’t really a “classic,” but this Madame & Eve is from a couple of days ago, so it can’t really be the Comic Strip of the Day, either.(Language note: “Gogo” is the Zulu term from “grandmother.” An Afrikaaner kid would call her “Ouma.” I think that leaves at least 9 significant South African languages […]
Watch Your Head scores with one of those gags that will only work in the hands of one character.That’s not only a hallmark of a good gag, but of a good strip, and Omar is the perfect choice for this one: He’s so above it all, and someone we all know all too well.This week, […]
Heh. I just noticed the other day that my phone, which I’ve had for several months, still had its plastic. I wish I had someone in my life who would be maddened by my indifference, but I don’t, so I went ahead and peeled it off.That much sooner it will be all scratched up. I […]
As I was just saying, humor has become an essential part of political cartooning, at least if you want your cartoons to appear in the papers. I suspect that Jeff Koterba has a pretty good chance with this one.Those who can’t fathom the politics will still get a kick out of the gag.He had an […]
The timing on today’s Rudy Park is excellent, as Facebook works towards its Initial Public Offering and analysts start to question whether its value has already peaked.I even heard someone suggest that we might be seeing a second round of the dot-com bubble.The timing is more fortuitous than planned, I’m quite sure, given lead times […]
Pat Oliphant does a really nice job of making political points with extremely funny artwork. That’s important, not only because it results in memorable and effective commentary, but because many of the cloth-eared grammarians who edit newspapers think that all cartoons are supposed to be funny and won’t choose a political cartoon that doesn’t include […]
Drew Litton on the decision facing Indianapolis Colts Quarterback Peyton Manning, who is near, or perhaps at, the end of a brilliant 14-year career.Well, brilliant 13-year career. He sat out this past season after neck surgery described as “cervical neck fusion,” but it’s not clear whether the second operation was a follow-up on the first […]
Blondie is a strip so settled in its groove that most days you read it out of habit and with fairly low expectations. But when it’s not recycling the character-driven jokes — Dithers is a bully, Herb borrows tools, Dagwood likes to eat — there are some gems in there and it’s actually one of […]
Pardon My Planet, with a cartoon I cannot relate to.Not the laundry part. Oh, I’m there.The fitting into your old clothes part. I think this cartoon is for people under 40.Eight or 10 years ago, I finally got rid of the suit I was married in at 21, realizing that I would never, ever be […]
Stuart Carlson riffs on what could turn out to be a magic moment in the campaign.At this point, I’m less interested in the fact that Newt Gingrich is promising to have a moon base up and running in nine years than I am in seeing who else — besides Carlson and Jon Stewart — is […]
Steve Breen on an issue a lot of people wish would simply stay in the closet.But I started hearing about the conditions under which iPhones and iPads are made in China a little over a week ago, and have since seen the story in the New York Times and echoed elsewhere.It’s not the first time […]
Friend-of-the-blog Sandra Lundy is in the process of giving the ladies of Between Friends a bit of an update. I guess it began with Maeve’s new haircut, but now she’s making Susan try to climb out of schlumpdom.Which is sorta-kinda an ongoing theme in the strip, except that there was a recent series that, she […]
This Clay Jones cartoon ran in the Free Lance-Star of Fredericksburg, VA, Monday. As of yesterday, he reported on Facebook, they were up to 18 hate letters, two cancellations and “a couple” of letters to the editor protesting the piece.It’s not a perfect takedown on the events at the end of Paterno’s career: According to […]