Appropriately GoComics introduces Curses! by Chelsea Carr on Halloween.From the GoComics blog: The comic strip follows Wilma, a witch who hasn’t quite mastered her magic yet, which gets her into some trouble. She and her family move to a cottage in the middle of the woods so she can have plenty of space to get […]
It’s Halloween, but that seems to mean “Cartoonists’ Day Off.” I found myself resisting the urge to post an entire page of “The Grownups Ate The Candy” gags, which was 98% of what I found.Okay, that’s sarcasm. It was only 93%.I did appreciate this Mt Pleasant (Tribune) because there are parents who go completely Stage Mother […]
A Hard-Copy of the Morning Newspaper is VitalArt Marmorstein needs four things in the morning: … a warm shower, a bowl of cereal, a cup of coffee and a hard-copy morning newspaper. If my kids have used up all the hot water, a lukewarm or even a cold shower will do the trick. If we’re […]
First, “He Who Must Be Dealt With,” and Ben Jennings bursts through the crowd of Musk-Freeing-Trump and Musk-Weaponizing-Twitter cartoons with this reminder that having a lot of money and getting a lot of attention doesn’t necessary translate into having a lot of judgment.As noted here yesterday, one doesn’t just walk in and fire everyone who […]
Thursday’s Judge Parker made me nostalgic. © NASNostalgic for those Dagwood commute drives when Denis Lebrun was the Blondie artist. Lebrun would occasionally use the middle panel to show the car doing a “Bullit jump” while going over a hill.© KFS Wednesday’s Warped by Michael Cavna gives me an excuse (like I really needed one) …© Michael […]
Gary Larson’s 10 Best Comics, Ranked © Gary LarsonScreen Rant lists, what they purport to be, The 10 Best Cartoons from Gary Larson’s The Far Side. Gary Larson wrote his comic strips for syndication for over 15 years, each one is funny and some are perfect examples of what comic art can be. Gary […]
There are lots of important things going on in the world and I’m not in the mood to contemplate any of them. Alas, reality raises its ugly head whether you seek it or not, but I’m going to let the bartender in Non Sequitur (AMS) handle the people who just don’t get it.I’m assuming these two […]
A Sunday Miracle © NEAFor the first time in nearly four years Alley Oop and Ooola as adults appeared in the Sunday comic strip since Joey Alison Sayers and Jonathan Lemon took over. The last time they appeared as adults was in the January 6, 2019 Sunday rerun (last original Sunday appearance was August 26, […]
Friday introduced another real world, but heretofore unseen, occurrence into the World of Gil Thorp.As the top commenter Ravenswing noted Friday about the new development: Henry, I say this with all the wish to see you succeed at this as I may, but you need to slow your roll here. This is a daily comic […]
Cartooning doesn’t have a lot of rules, but “If you thought of it fast, so did everyone else” is pretty reliable.Be glad I didn’t do this with all the corgi cartoons that followed QEII’s death. And that, over at Drawing Fire, Clay Jones compressed the gas-pump-snake cartoons into a single piece. Can’t we talk about something a […]
After raising a fuss last month over Lee Enterprises dropping Dilbert, cartoonist Scott Adams said he was “kinda hoping [Dilbert] would get cancelled over this” after finishing a week of comic strips about ESG in Corporate America.Scott has been focusing more and more on conservative talking points in his comic strip. The World News Group […]
Joe Palooka began in the Spring of 1930, eight years later, in the Spring of 1938, the very popular comic strip introduced a, let’s say, eight year old child.The next Sunday Max and Alice returned and then reappeared twice more. Don’t know how far ahead Ham Fisher and Mo Leff (art assistant/ghost) worked but Little Max […]
I’m so old that, when I saw today’s Pooch Cafe, I thought, “Well, there’s a cartoon that appeals to the young folks.” Then I realized that the little kids I took to see Tron are now 46 and 50 respectively.Even at 6 and 10, I don’t think they took the film seriously, but we really […]
In the Vanishing Skills Department, today’s Grand Avenue suggests that nobody in the chain of cartoonist-to-editor-to-syndicate knows how to bake a pumpkin pie.There was a time, consarn it, when a young fellow looking for a wife was asked if she could bake a cherry pie. We used to sing “She can bake a cherry pie, […]
© Patrick McDonnellPatrick McDonnell passes on a little inside stuff: MUTTS might look a little different to you this week and in the future. If so, it’s because I’ve loosened up my art style, using very little preliminary pencils (in some cases none) and going straight to drawing in ink. It gives the strip more […]