I’m getting sick of zombie jokes, but I’m also sick of hearing about gluten, so today’s Bliss is a nice mashup of tiresome subjects.I don’t doubt that some people are sensitive to gluten. I seriously doubt that everyone who thinks they’re sensitive to gluten actually is, but I can remember back when some people claimed […]
Madam & Eve comments on the London riots. I like the crappy “universal” style that turns what should be a loveable mascot into the sort of international icon you’d find on signage telling you which restrooms are for men and which are for women, or asking you not to litter.There must be something in the […]
Bill Holbrook is incredibly prolific, with three different daily strips going, two (On the Fastrack and Safe Havens) in syndication and one (Kevin and Kell) on-line.Fastrack is the geeky one and, as I struggle with a new computer, this gag rings just as true as it did in 2007. Yes, I know I can probably […]
While I’m off reminiscing with high school friends, a little humor from my college.When I went back to my 20th reunion at Notre Dame, I found myself talking to the undergraduates who were working the event. (Yes, just like the guys who used to chat with Zonker when Doonesbury did its annual reunion sequence.) As […]
Okay, today’s choice is largely an accident of timing, but I like the blandness of John Deering’s art in this Strange Brew. Sometimes, you can just draw something and, if you do it right, you don’t need a pie-in-the-face punchline to make it “funny.”But the timing of this funny panel also happens to be impeccable, […]
Pat Bagley of the Salt Lake Tribune does a fine job of summing up the disappointment of Obama supporters.Yesterday, I wrote about the futility of thinking voters are going to sit down, rationally consider all the candidates on their merits and then make a choice based on an objective and thoughtful assessment of the nation’s […]
Don Asmussen sets himself a tough task with “Bad Reporter” — making three terse, funny, insightful, thematically-linked gags on the same day. He doesn’t nail all three every time, but, my, it’s lovely when he does.With the next presidential campaign just kicking off, we’re in a particularly target-rich environment right now, particularly with the emerging […]
When yesterday’s “Little Dog Lost” featured the tortoise reading the first verse of this poem to the tender-hearted dog, I thought to myself, if he’s upset by that, it’s a good thing nobody ever reads the rest of it.And here we are.Old Mother Hubbard is a very funny poem, but I can see why modern […]
Today’s Non Sequitur is ridiculous. I mean, you’d need a much deeper casket than that.Wiley will probably get a message saying that, only not joking. Plus some others, since kidding around about death tends to rile people and jokes about how you are buried twice as much.I find that the older I get, the less […]
Scott Stantis marks the start of another school year.Staples will soon begin running their iconic “It’s the most wonderful time of the year” commercials, which not only celebrate the fact that we hate having our children around, but also that stores can count on a nice boost this time of year.I was out of the […]
“Pints and Panels” is an interesting use of the medium that I think works very well for what Emily Sauter is up to.Blogging your life through cartooning has become popular, though today’s Cul de Sac points out a slight flaw in the concept:Putting something boring, dull and uneventful into cartoon format does not transform it […]
Today’s La Cucaracha must be provoking some hearty laughter in Lalo Alcaraz’s hometown of Los Angeles.It used to be that the Wall Street Journal was noted in the industry for an editorial page filled with raging, rightwing opinion pieces based on information clearly contradicted in its own pages by its own independent news department. (I […]
Judge Parker is one of the few continuity strips left and, of those few, one of the even fewer that seem to take the form seriously. As you can see from today’s strip, the previous story is wrapping up and a new one is about to launch, so this would be a good time to […]
Khalid Albaih, a Romanian-born Sudanese cartoonist currently living in Qatar, makes a simple point at Cartoon Movement.Or perhaps it’s not that simple.The current famine in southern Somalia, Southern Sudan, Kenya and Ethiopia seems to defy responsible coverage and that’s a good starting point:Both photojournalists and editorial cartoonists have a limited stage upon which to make […]
Derf Backderf addresses the most important question about the Borders closing: Whaaa?I don’t get it.I get the cartoon. (Though you’ll probably need to click on it to get a legible sized copy) What I don’t get is the outpouring of grief over the closing of a crappy big box retailer that had aided in the […]