Rina Piccolo hits the nail on the head with today’s Six Chix panel.There are jobs out there, as long as you don’t mind taking two or three and being paid for one.This is not theory talking; I was unemployed for about eight months after my last newspaper job ended with the death of the paper.I […]
Edge City seems to have a predeliction for picking up little moments in family life that haven’t yet been hammered to death on the funny pages. They don’t slam every ball over the fence, but they get a lot of extra base hits, while just the originality makes the strip worth following (and they do […]
I don’t often pick a cartoon based solely on its artwork, and this Damien Glez cartoon certainly has a deserving message beyond its art alone.But in other hands, it would be “yep, he’s right” and move on to the next one.There is something obscene, after all, in the western nations obsessing over the problems of […]
Joel Pett offers a thoughtful perspective on the new MLK memorial on the National Mall.I’m old enough to remember the Civil Rights Movement, but just young enough to have not quite been an active part of it. I say “active part” because we’re all part of it still, in the sense of “You’re either part […]
Frazz may have crossed another line today, but it cracked me up. I spend a lot of time around people who do seem to think their dogs need little treats shaped and colored like T-bone steaks, and who put them on expensive diets because they are convinced their pooches are gluten-sensitive.Mind you, Vaska’s buddies do […]
When the East Coast earthquake struck, it gave Fredericksburg, Virginia, home of the Free Lance Star, a pretty good jolt. Cartoonist Clay Jones reported dust coming out of the ceiling tiles, an evacuation of the building and a general sense of impending doom.Now, less than a week later, Virginia is in an official state of […]
Funny you should mention it, Non Sequitur.In one of those odd quirks of timing, the Washington Post had an article Monday exploring the concept without trying to be funny: “Philosophical counselors rely on eternal wisdom of great thinkers” was about, well, “philosophical counselors,” who offer people advice based on Epictetus and the gang. Wiley Miller […]
The New Adventures of Queen Victoria sent me on a bum trip down memory lane this morning, not only based on my own bad memory but on a rumor that seems to have been incomplete.The rumor was that the Houston Chronicle was going through a design change that would put an end to its “build […]
In “Heart of the City,” Dean is working on a new superhero comic and Heart is, as if often the case, less than impressed. Mark Tatulli seems to get more attention for his pantomime strip, “Lio,” than this older, more conventional strip, but there’s a lot to like in Heart.This is a moment of self-effacement […]
I was trying to thin out the boxes of stuff in my closet this weekend and came across this example of “Freckles and His Friends” from the 1920s, probably 1923 or 24. Back in the 1990s, I produced a weekly historical piece for the Press-Republican of Plattsburgh, NY, that involved going back through all the […]
The Brilliant Mind of Edison Lee, with a commentary on the state of education.Edison Lee is a solid little strip that will celebrate five years of syndication in November, and John Hambrock has managed over that time to develop a good sense of the ridiculous, after a period in the early days of being too […]
When I saw Norm Feuti at the One Fine Sunday exhibit in Boston this spring, we talked a little bit about Marla’s ongoing plan to open her own store and he told me he was going to do something with Retail that might be risky.So I’ve been watching the strip since then, trying to figure […]
You will really be missing something if you don’t go here and read this cartoon.On one level, the incident it bears witness to, the shootings of civilians by American contractors, is critically important and you should know about it. But let me get back to that.Dan Archer has created an interactive comic that uses its […]
This Deep Cover doesn’t really plow a lot of new ground, but it’s something worth saying, and it dovetails nicely with yesterday’s Matt Bors cartoon, in that there should be conservatives calling b*llsh*t on those who claim to be Christian but who apparently haven’t done the reading, starting with that bit about praying on […]
Okay, here’s why liberals lose elections: They’re not afraid to make fun of each other for taking things way too seriously. Matt Bors, I’m looking at you.When I heard about the Bert-and-Ernie petition, I assumed it was a joke and wondered why PBS took it seriously enough to even bother responding. And I thought the […]