Today’s La Cucaracha promotes a for-real website with a for-real, if tongue-in-cheek, offer: Jobs for all those Americans who think illegal aliens are taking the jobs Americans should have.Forty years ago, when Cesar Chavez was organizing the farm workers, I briefly dated a woman who was working with striking lettuce pickers in Colorado’s San Luis […]
Madam & Eve celebrates, and mourns, today’s World Cup finals. I’ve been disappointed that ESPN and ABC, together with the American networks not covering the games themselves, have failed to provide the kind of travelogue coverage they normally extend to the host countries of the Olympics. We’ve seen a lot of games, but only vague […]
(This profile of Michael Jantze, creator of “The Norm,” is part of a series I did in 2003 for the Post-Star of Glens Falls, NY. The Norm has since gone out of syndication but is available on-line in reruns.)It’s kind of like “Annie Hall.” It’s like illustrated stand-up comedy. Sometimes, it feels like jazz. It’s […]
It’s hard for print comics to match the timeliness of web features like The New Adventures of Queen Victoria, and it’s hard to anyone to match Pab Sungenis’s gift for snarky insight.I have been following the inescapable story of LeBron James and the Decision That Would Rock the World, and thinking that there are a […]
There are several strips doing “odd summer camp” arcs this week, but Cul de Sac is featuring something that not only could exist but does, if not quite in this format. And, as always, Richard Thompson elevates things with a bit of social satire beyond the obvious, and a reaction shot to remind us that, […]
The idea of an intellectual roofer is well within the framework of Frazz, which is, after all, about an intellectual janitor, though I think pounding nails* to Beethoven seems a bit unlikely. Gilbert & Sullivan, more likely, but only complete recordings with all the dialogue, not those cheesy “highlight” recordings.Given the current weather on the […]
Vic Lee often uses “Pardon My Planet” to make subtle and insightful commentaries on the logical inconsistencies, small moments of self-serving hypocrisy and psychological foibles in our relationships.But not today.
In today’s Stone Soup, Jan Eliot explores a workplace issue that the EEOC has yet to solve, as far as I know.However, I have a potential fix. I once worked at a paper housed in two buildings that shared a parking lot. One building held the newsroom, production and business. The other held circulation and […]
One of the great joys of my relentless efforts to avoid cities is holiday parades in which everyone gets to be in the parade or on the sidewalk, more or less by choice. I’ve been a Cub Scout walking down Route 3 in Star Lake, NY, with my parents and probably 100 other people at […]
(Editor’s note: The Saturday profiles are pieces I wrote in 2003 for the Post-Star of Glens Falls, NY. Since that time, FBOFW has ended its first run and gone back to the beginning, retelling the story with a combination of old and new strips. This is a direction Johnston decided on after this interview, and […]
Only hardcore Arlo & Janis fans will get the joke in today’s headline, and I’m not trying to address them, so I’ll start by decoding for everyone else: Their last-and-seldom-used name is “Day.” Decoding what else has been going on in the strip is a little more complex, but I’ll give it a shot because […]
I didn’t know how old Jeff Corriveau, creator of “Deflocked,” was, but as I looked for the live link to his strip, I found a Wikipedia article that says he’s 38.That’s about my kids’ age, which is relevant because I remember buying them Cracker Jack and being appalled at how lousy the “toy surprises” had […]
For several weeks now, Retail has been starting a secondary storyline about its main character, Marla, and her impending marriage. That should send up all sorts of warning flags, since the strip has been tightly focused on retailing, but (1) if Norm Feuti brings the same cynical reality to weddings that he’s brought to management […]
Okay, this time it’s personal. Zits happens to have used this gag the morning after I finally closed my eyes, clenched my teeth and plugged in what I hoped was the right power source.Three weeks ago, my computer died and needed a system restore, which, you may know, wipes it entirely clean and brings it […]
Lincoln Peirce’s “Big Nate” is about life in the sixth grade, but school is out and apparently this is a world in which kids are not overscheduled into back-to-back-to-back camps, activities and sports.This isn’t a particularly new joke: An Irish friend used it once as a demonstration of the difference between the old Ireland and […]