Arlo & Janis touches upon one of the great truths of American education.It took me a little over a week, my freshman year, to realize, not that sophomores were all idiots, but that the biggest idiots on campus were all sophomores.I’d have tumbled to it a little sooner, but we had a week of orientation […]
Tank McNamara is a funny strip, and I don’t just mean that in the ha-ha sense. It is essentially the Doonesbury of sports strips and, as with Doonesbury, there are times when you have to check to see if Millar and Hinds are riffing on an actual event or just inventing an absurd situation […]
Mike Thompson takes on the latest idiot distraction, the alleged banning of incandescent light bulbs.There’s nothing new about populist demagogues pandering to the mob with distorted fears of things in their daily lives while more sweeping issues go unremarked. But Thompson does well to riff off the fact that there has never been a time […]
I’ve learned not to predict too much about what I’ll never do, but I did like today’s Rudy Park.Rudy Park is a partnership between Darrin Bell of Candorville and Theron Heir, who is actually Matt Richtel of the NY Times, using a pseudonym for reasons that probably made sense once but now mostly bring up […]
In case anyone was wondering what it takes to become “Comic Strip of the Day,” here’s a quick lesson from Hilary Price of Rhymes With Orange: It doesn’t hurt to base your cartoon on something you read here.When Hilary asked to use the quote, my initial highly flattered reaction was to say yes and then […]
Between Friends has a grip on normalcy that works for me on a regular basis.I can, for example, remember those … um … interfaces with middleschool aged offspring in which you would begin to get this sense that it was no longer a debate or a discussion or even an argument but simply a test […]
I can’t remember whether I took Junior Lifesaving at 14 or 16, but Big Nate is giving me a small dose of Post Traumatic Swimming Disorder.Big Nate is a cartoon that provides adults with memories of how it was while providing tweens with laughs about how it is, and, given his paperbacks and ibooks […]
I’m tied up for the next few days with some workshops for middle-school journalists, so will be posting some of the classic cartoons I used to show high school students in a presentation on the topic. Ann Telnaes can do things with a single, sweeping line than most cartoonists can only dream of. Look at […]
I’m tied up for the next few days with some workshops for middle-school journalists, so will be posting some of the classic cartoons I used to show high school students in a presentation on the topic. I used to show the kids one example of the more than 30 political cartoons that littered newspapers with […]
I’m tied up for the next few days with some workshops for middle-school journalists, so will be posting some of the classic cartoons I used to show high school students in a presentation on the topic. This, of course, is a true classic, and one of the great obituary cartoons of all times.But why?When I […]
I’m tied up for the next few days with some workshops for middle-school journalists, so will be posting some of the classic cartoons I used to show high school students in a presentation on the topic. Was there ever anyone else like Bill Mauldin?I’d talk to the kids about stereotyped cartoons anyone can do about […]
I’m tied up for the next few days with some workshops for middle-school journalists, so will be posting some of the classic cartoons I used to show high school students in a presentation on the topic. The presentation began with the Nast cartoon of the Tweed Ring that I posted here a few days ago. […]
In Prickly City this past week, Carmen has had the opportunity to go on Bill O’Reilly’s show to debate Alan Colmes. Here is that debate in its entirety.I spent about a year and a half hosting a talk show on the radio in the early ’80s, and, while I’m not sure what my listeners […]
I really do try not to go back to the same strips too often, and of all the same strips I try not to go back to too often, Cul de Sac is at the top of the list. However, if Richard Thompson is going to post classics like this on his blog, well, it’s […]
I looked through a lot of July 4-themed cartoons, but the majority were lame jokes about barbecues and firecrackers (yawn), and then there were the editorial cartoons that fell into what Clay Jones calls “Hallmark cartoons,” which is to say, cartoons the only point of which is to mark the date.A couple weren’t too bad, […]