In last week’s post, noting Prickly City’s move from the desert to Washington, DC, I said that Scott Stantis is unique among conservative cartoonists in that he’s willing to go where the jokes are, even if he crosses a few lines to get there.For instance.
Garry Trudeau’s work in Doonesbury with veterans and with active-duty GIs has been exemplary and I think marks a new point in war coverage and media. Today’s humorous depiction of the modern, plugged-in GI is a pretty good example.Let me try to get this right without cranking out a six-volume explanation.The Crimean War (1853-56) was […]
Trust Mr. Boffo to put a positive spin on things.
And so, we go from yesterday’s loveable loser to this unloveable loser.When life hands you the milk of human kindness, the Piranha Club will make it into healthy, delicious yoghurt. I have to say that I am really burning out on mean-spirited sarcasm as a punchline, particularly the fad in comics of creating a misanthropic […]
Poor Monty has been recovering from a broken heart for the past week or so, and the only positive note is that, in this case, as he’s expressing his sorrow, you are not only allowed, but encouraged, to laugh in his face.Apparently, you’re not supposed to do that in real life. Or so I’ve been […]
And you thought moving Prickly City to DC was a change! Keith Knight has just added a whole new set of complications to the Knight Life.This one was easier to see coming — Knight has been chronicling the pregnancy in virtually real-time, wringing every laugh out of that part of the process. And, while […]
You’d think that Jef Mallett, noted endurance athlete, overall health freak and occasional wearer of Spandex, would join in the cartoonists’ chorus of routinely decrying hunting.But he’s a native Michigander and a bluecollar guy at heart and I suspect he grew up with an understanding of where it all fits into local lifestyles and economics, […]
We find ourselves today in the suburbs, where small children in white bathrobes learn to break boards using a variety of disciplines, or at least to strike poses suggesting that they might later break a board. Or go to McDonald’s. I’ve seen them do all of those things.In today’s Cul de Sac, Ernesto discusses the […]
Madam & Eve goes through sustained periods where you really have to follow South African current events to know what’s going on, what with references to who has done what and with which and to whom.* Lately, it’s been one of those periods, which says a great deal more about what’s going on in South […]
Scott Stantis is that rarest of things: A conservative cartoonist with a sense of humor. Not just my opinion, either. There was a recent on-line conversation somewhere in which one fellow disapprovingly listed a bunch of conservative cartoonists. Someone else responded “You forgot Scott Stantis,” and the answer came back, “No, Stantis is funny.”And that’s […]
Kirk Anderson provides a classic bookmark from 2005 for that new memoir everyone is talking about. (Do click on this one — the larger version is worth seeing.)
That’s not entirely true, of course. I’m sure Lincoln Peirce would like you to like “Big Nate,” especially if you are over 60 and prone to filling out things and putting them in the mail, because the only way a syndicated strip can survive is by scoring well in comic “surveys,” which are dominated by […]
Since I launched this website, I’ve added some strips to my daily diet, in part to try to keep from citing the same ones over and over and in part because I feel I ought to know a little more about what’s out there.I’ve dropped a few that were clearly never going to make the […]
There are people who hate puns, but I’ve never understood that. I generally don’t like bad puns that force you to mispronounce a word to make the joke work, and a long, involved pun is better than a short one. In most cases. But not always.In today’s Speed Bump, Dave Coverly makes a short pun […]
On the way into Easthampton, I joked to myself that it was good I had Mapquested the event, because just following strange-looking people in the Northampton area wouldn’t necessarily get you to the webcomics gathering. But I found that there weren’t a lot of obsessively odd people in the crowd.Webcomics skew notably towards science fiction […]