I hope the dog is resting comfortably, because one of us ought to be and the time shift from East to West has really caught up with me. I’m putting off convention coverage for another day and it should be a long one, since I’ve got a red eye tonight and won’t post tomorrow until […]
The report from San Francisco is that I’m here without much to report yet, since it’s mostly been a social gathering. Good for me to put faces to names but you have to be here for that to be a factor. Today will mark a day of sessions and I’ll report back.Meanwhile, Harry Bliss (Tribune) […]
As you are reading this, I am en route to the AAEC Convention in San Francisco, which I will report on in the coming days. While you wait, and while I fly, here is what you’d have read in a California paper had you picked one up a century ago today. 1923 was a pretty […]
Since I’m trying to get out of town for the AAEC Convention in San Francisco, I intended to feature funny stuff this morning rather than getting bogged down in details. However, everything seemed to require explanations, so we’ll start with today’s Betty (AMS).I think of this topic as the place on the Venn diagram where […]
There was a substantial mix of cartoons this morning about the removal of Kevin McCarthy as Speaker of the House, some of them clearly drawn before the vote, others done with apparent haste after the matter had been decided in the late afternoon.Clay Bennett (CTFP) does well with a depiction of the monster shorn of […]
Good to see that Barry Blitt is as confused as I am.I didn’t stay up to watch the debate, figuring I could pick up the analysis the next morning, but all I got from the analysis the next morning was a reassurance that going to bed was the right choice, since nobody seemed to think […]
Clay Jones marks National Newspaper Week (Oct 1-7) with this reminder of a major factor in the decline of newspapers: The odd belief that, while a cup of coffee costs money, information “wants to be free.”Maybe information wants to be free, but the people who compile it want to pay their rent and buy groceries. […]
The last minute continuing resolution renders a lot of this past week’s political cartoons obsolete, but Paul Noth’s panel is not only worthy of inclusion anyway but can serve as a reminder that, while the immediate crisis may have (mostly) passed, the overall problem remains.As others have observed, the Constitution was written with the presumption […]
I noted this Edison Lee (KFS) story arc earlier, but Orville the Novelist has been particularly amusing in light of my having written two not-very-good novels myself. There is the obvious barrier of needing to keep the seat of the pants firmly in the seat of the chair, but there is also the barrier of […]
Clay Bennett (CTFP) summarizes the GOP’s impeachment inquiry into Joe Biden, using the inquisitors’ own phrase that they intend to “connect the dots.”However, so far, as he notes, the only revelation that has come out of the hearings is that it’s a waste of time, which even their own lead witnesses have confirmed. There is […]
There’s really nothing new about the “latest” poll Cynthia cites in this Barney & Clyde (Counterpoint), and it’s good to have this particular episode set in school because, for years, people have said that (A) their own schools are good but (B) education is in terrible shape.While people are aware of their own situation, they’re […]
I’m going to assume — given lead time for comic strips — that this Taylor Swift reference in Brewster Rockit (Tribune) is coincidental, but it fits well with the sudden explosion of geezers discovering the existence of someone who has been a major phenomenon for a decade and a half.And it fits particularly well with […]
As Jeff Stahler (AMS) notes, the writers’ strike in Hollywood has been settled and, as he also notes, that doesn’t mean that Paddy Chayefsky and Rod Serling are being loosed upon the TV studios once more.It also doesn’t mean that I’ll be any less aghast watching the promos during football for the next little while. […]
I guess they call it “Candorville” (KFS) for a reason. I don’t know that I’ve ever seen a cartoonist run a correction and hats off to Darrin Bell for breaking that tradition, though perhaps Clyde reflects a larger part of the population who prefer certainty over accuracy.For my part, I’ve lost faith in a whole […]
We’ll start with a non-political one. I’m disappointed in the new Sunday Ben Bolt (KFS-Vintage) story arc. Ben Bolt is mostly light, semi-humorous stuff on Sundays, but this reminded me of a scene in City for Conquest, a 1940 movie in which Cagney boxes to help support his composer brother. There is a scene in […]