Candorville, with a question about voting rights and eating rights.When I was little — I’m gonna guess about third grade — we were all brought down to the auditorium for an assembly. A couple stood up on stage and told us how important it was to protect our freedom, and how, if the Communists took […]
So many of the characters in Pros & Cons appear totally demented that it’s interesting to see how rational Kieran Meehan decided to make this fellow appear.It’s really the only way the gag could work: He has to appear completely rational or the focus of his madness becomes irrelevant and he might as well just […]
As reported earlier, Cul de Sac creator Richard Thompson has put the strip into reruns for a few weeks while he undergoes some Parkinson’s therapy, but, since Sundays are generally on a different schedule and I don’t remember ever seeing this one, I think it’s new.And I don’t much care if it’s a rerun because […]
Oh, lord, where to begin?Matt Bors did this very funny cartoon in response to the bizarre marketing campaign for the 10-calorie version of Dr. Pepper. When I say “bizarre,” I mean this commercial, which Matt has linked with his comic at Daily Kos, probably because, if you haven’t seen it, you wouldn’t get the point […]
I’m currently working on a series for kids about Theodore Roosevelt and conservation, and, as part of that, was going through political cartoons of the era.This two page spread by Puck cartoonist L.M. Glackens ran in that publication in 1906, when William Randolph Hearst was a candidate for governor of New York (click on it […]
Real Life Adventures features a real life issue, but one I kind of hope is a little misaddressed. Or maybe, like a lot of domestic comedy, based on something that would have happened a generation ago but not now.Please?Okay, probably not.Real Life Adventures is a cartoon I really enjoy, in large part because the blandness […]
Oatmeal(Animated gifs can be a little tweaky when transplanted, so you may want to check this out at his web site if it seems to not be working here. Besides, he’s got a little more to say and it’s well said.)
The Piranha Club looks at TV news, with Arnoldine dressed up as a sexy blonde who delivers only the most mundane headlines at the expense of real news, competing against a chimp hired on the basis that people love chimpanzees.Fourth panel says it all.I worked in TV back when the “happy talk” format began, in […]
Timing is everything in comedy.I was notified Friday that a client had direct-deposited a substantial amount of money to my bank account, but apparently it didn’t actually get posted to the account before close of business Friday, and so, what with the MLK holiday today, I won’t see it until tomorrow.Which I understand and which […]
Tank McNamara on the transition from sports to soap opera. And we’re not that many months away from the next Olympics, folks.Many of you are old enough to remember when ESPN was a sports network and would show all sorts of odd and interesting events, most memorably Australian Rules Football, which became so popular that, […]
It’s been a week of painful parental flashbacks at Baby Blues, which is part of the strip’s appeal, of course. For those with young kids, the message is “You are not alone.” For those of us whose kids are grown and gone, the message is, “Thanks for reminding me.”As Zoe says, it all comes with […]
“Sherman’s Lagoon” has been riffing on “Dolphin Tale” this week, a feel-good movie about a dolphin who caught her tail in a trap, had it amputated and was fitted with a prosthetic tail. It’s based on a true story, which, since “based on a true story” generally means “We only made up 85 percent of […]
The other day, I gave a quick plug for “Gil,” Norm Feuti’s newly-syndicated strip about a not-very-successful kid with a not-very-perfect life. Here, not quite two weeks into its run, is Gil.I’ve mentioned this before, but Norm’s other strip, “Retail,” came out when I was working at a newspaper and the samples in the sales […]
Today’s Rhymes With Orange raises a frightening question: I wonder if all those years of listening to Tony the Tiger and the Cheerios Kid were simply programming us to accept empty promises from friendly, two-dimensional characters?And I wonder if getting a few more days between myself and the New Hampshire Primary would ease that feeling […]
Herblock had little patience for Barry Goldwater’s pull-yourselves-up-by-your-bootstraps attitude towards the poor, and expresses it in straightforward fashion with this 1961 broadside.God knows what he’d make of Mitt Romney. Of course, Mitt didn’t inherit a department store. He didn’t even inherit a car company. We don’t pass on actual businesses to our children anymore. When […]