Once more, Kieran Meehan’s gift for bathos comes to the fore. Pros and Cons has an ability to set up and deflate that wouldn’t work half as well if the deflators did not invariably look demented.In, of course, the most positive, cheerful and endearing sense of the term. A lot of cartoonists get mail from […]
Wiley Miller is a bit of a media junkie, so it’s quite possible that he knew the 40th anniversary of the ATM was coming up next month when he drew this Non Sequitur.However, the comics sections were already printed and delivered to newspapers around the country when this happened.It’s either quite a coincidence or the […]
(This is one of a series of cartoonist profiles I did in 2003 for the Post-Star of Glens Falls, NY. This particular profile is colored by the fact that McPherson lives in the area.)Close to Home” is created in Saratoga Springs, where John McPherson shares work space with other artists in a building they call […]
Nemi not only cracked me up several places in this panel, but made me feel even older than usual, given that I was already a little beyond hip by the time Phil Collins came on the scene. Okay, I’m not middle-aged anymore, kid, I get it. ‘Zounds!(See anything in this cartoon that probably wouldn’t have […]
I have championed Norm Feuti’s Retail as precisely the sort of strip papers should have if they want to serve younger readers, all of whom seem to have put in some time working at the mall. Today’s is for those who ascended to management, which usually takes about three months.It also gave me a flashback […]
This Between Friends story arc began with Susan’s husband figuring out how much money they could save if she gave up buying expensive coffee. She has managed to cadge one off Maeve, but she is still looking for a more long-term solution. One of the more endearing things about this strip is watching, over the […]
I get a little weary of strips in which the joke consists of pulling apart a grammatical inconsistency in colloquial speech. Attacking cliches is another matter, especially cliches that are linked not only to lazy use of language but lazy thinking, as well. And Agnes is a champion at lampooning lazy thought.Though I will say […]
Who would have guessed that the answer to “Okay, where exactly in the Bible does it say … ” would come from Vic Lee’s “Pardon My Planet”??
Most Sundays, you’ll see a strip or two that are clearly weekday strips, only the cartoonist, on deadline and desperate, has padded the thing out to make a three-panel gag fit a multi-panel Sunday format.Not in this case. Bud Grace has taken a joke that wouldn’t have worked in a three- or four-panel format and […]
(This interview with Jim Toomey of Sherman’s Lagoon is part of a series of cartoonist profiles I did in 2003 for the Post-Star of Glens Falls, NY.)Some people will never quite understand how the candles remain lit underwater.”But, still, they accept that you can have two sharks sitting there at a table, eating chicken and […]
Today, I was pondering a very insightful political cartoon and a very silly daily strip, wondering if I should go for meaning or for the giggle. Then I got to Dave Kellett’s Sheldon and decided to split the difference.
It’s really strange to come across this Matt Bors cartoon having not caught the impetus for it, and then track down the video and find out that he’s actually going easy on them. I’m less concerned than Matt with the politics involved than I am with the sheer lack of analysis in that clip, and […]
Today’s Baby Blues struck me as funny because, see, when I was a kid, I had this friend whose mother tried to knit him a sweater. I forget his name. He moved away. But that’s why I laughed at this cartoon. Because of him.(In truth, my mother knitted me a sweater just a few years […]
Madam & Eve is so often based on South African politics that it’s a bit like xkcd in that you chuckle over the ones you get and shrug off the ones you don’t.However, with the World Cup being hosted there a mere month from now, I have a feeling the strip is about to go […]
There weren’t so many “breakfast in bed/chaos in the kitchen” Mother’s Day jokes as usual yesterday, but there weren’t many like this, either.I haven’t looked to see when it will be coming up, but I’ve got a profile of Stone Soup creator Jan Eliot that will be running one of these weekends. It was one […]