Donna Lewis’s “Replay All” is a good place to go right after a discursion on New Yorker cartoons, because she has that same, “yep, that’s how it is” approach: Observational humor that doesn’t have a punchline so much as a wry acknowledgement. This particular arc has me laughing because, to start with, a once-noble paper, the […]
Last night, 60 Minutes did either a profile on Bob Mankoff or a piece on how the New Yorker selects cartoons, the two being close enough that it may be a distinction without a difference.If you missed it, go here. It’s an interesting 13 minutes, and I was going to embed it, but, while it […]
I’ve put Neil Degrasse Tyson’s reboot of “Cosmos” in the category of things I’m glad are happening but that I’m not actually going to watch. I did watch the first part long enough to get tired of whiz-bang special effects telling me things I already knew.But, if I still had little kids, I’d be making […]
“Personal time” is kind of a strange concept for writers and I would assume cartoonists as well, and perhaps for anybody who gets paid to do what they want to do anyway. I have a service dog, in that he exists simply to get me up and away from the computer twice a day for […]
Brace yourself for negativity. The flood of “Fred is Dead” cartoons is about to hit.But one of the first out of the gate was this refreshingly decent take by Joe Heller.”How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world,” Portia observed.Joe has it right, but, based on […]
Mike Thompson takes a poke at the chickenhawks who would like to see us take on a major nuclear power because, y’know, it would make us more macho and stuff.I’ve recently-and-often said that I don’t much like chickenhawks, and I like them even less since the draft ended, since now they aren’t even required to […]
As it happens, the first “oooh, I like that one!” of this morning’s trip through the funnies came at Rhymes With Orange. Little did I expect RWO to set the agenda for the day.Hilary Price specializes in wry, observational humor. This is not funny, but it’s a very good observation and needs to be said.Often. And […]
If you haven’t put the Nib on your regular diet … well, thanks, because it means you have to come here for clues of when you should go there.But you’re probably missing some comics that would tickle your fancy but don’t particularly tickle mine.Not to suggest that my fancy isn’t wonderfully ticklish, mind you. But […]
The whole issue of St Patrick’s Day is fraught, given that it grew to prominence as a kind of civil rights march in the era of Know-Nothing bigotry and morphed into a nationalist event each year, raising money for the liberation of Ireland but has since somehow became the Stepan McFetchit monstrosity it is today.I […]
One of the rules around here is that an editorial cartoon is “live” until the artist publishes the next one, and that’s good, because I’ve been pondering this Matt Bors cartoon for a couple of days.He often makes me think, because, while there are cartoonists with whom I almost always agree and some with whom […]
(Drew Sheneman) (Clay Bennett)There are plenty of serious issues out there and plenty of depressing cartoons addressing them, and to hell with it. Drew Sheneman and Clay Bennett go for the chuckles, proving that even silliness can be used as a weapon.I addressed the “presidential dignity” strawman two days ago and wouldn’t have come back […]
It’s pretty nerdy out there, on a holiday that I think can only be celebrated in the US of A, with Frazz the best of those marking it in the funny pages.We’ll have to make a much bigger deal of this in two years, assuming we’ve all recovered from the whole Y2K scare enough by […]
Thankyouthankyouthankyou Signe Wilkinson, for allowing this topic to be addressed without a violation of the Prime Directive.We only show good cartoons here. We don’t mock the off-key, “don’t you people read the papers?” commentaries that should embarrass their creators, though the temptation does become almost overwhelming at times when the facts are easily found but […]
Bug Martini either works on wicked-tight deadlines or stumbled into this topic just at the right moment: Keith Richards is now writing a children’s book.As mentioned recently, I read to my own kids and have read to my grandkids. And I know the feeling of having a small child come up with a book and […]
Dave Kellett on what may be the most annoying feature of an increasingly annoying Internet. As it happens, I ranted about LinkedIn almost exactly a year ago. I signed up because everyone said you had to sign up, then realized there was no real point in it and tried to escape, but, like Sheldon’s grandfather, I […]