I could probably rant forever on this topic, but, first of all, Tom the Dancing Bug has covered enough bases that I don’t have to (Seriously, check it out: Seven of the Top 15 grossing Broadway shows are live versions of movies), and second of all … Okay, there’s no “second of all,” except maybe […]
Summer camp story arcs are generally as predictable as “bear trap in the fireplace” cartoons at Christmas, but Deflocked puts its ascerbic POV to good use today.When my oldest was a wee lad, the Colorado Springs Parks & Rec department had a summer program they called “Tot Lot,” which we laughed at because it was […]
Every once in awhile, and Lord knows more often than anyone has a right to expect, xkcd comes out with a major project. In the past, it’s been wonderful, gigantic graphics that would drag you, quite willingly, into a long, minute exploration of some fact that matters or at least reveals.This one is smaller and […]
We’ll start with a recommendation: Brewster Rockit, which is always a good source of dumb jokes, is just starting a superhero spoof to layer over the top of the sci-fi spoof it already is.And the funniest part of today’s strip is that there are plenty of people with precise answers to that question, and they […]
Can’t give you an artist’s name on this one, but here’s the site it came from, the Iranian Students’ News Agency. Parts of that site are in English but I don’t think you need a translator for this.Question, rather, is if you need a weatherman to tell which way the wind blows? Because, to stay […]
The flood of “summer reading assignment” comics will surface in September, in the guise of “School is about to start and you haven’t touched your …” but, meanwhile, Frazz – ahead of the pack again — presents a nice one as a kickoff to vacation season, with a tip of the hat to the ol’ Briar […]
Can’t relate to this Rhymes With Orange too directly because we only use the ATM, and the dog doesn’t expect food until he sees a person. On the other hand, going to the coffeeshop’s driveup leaves him disappointed indeed, since you don’t get french fries with a cup of coffee, and our routine is that […]
On The Fastrack often features geek humor, but it acknowledges the culture without kowtowing to it. And, in contrast to the wildly popular but still niche-y Penny Arcade, it does so on a level that is accessible to the general public, assuming the general public is somewhat computer literate.Which is to say, those who may […]
Reruns (even ones featuring Rerun) shouldn’t take up valuable real estate on the print comics page, but they’re a lot of fun on the seemingly infinite Web. Especially when they are reruns of things you didn’t see the first time, like this Richard’s Poor Almanac entry, kindly presented a few days early so we can […]
Keith Knight on young people and the prison industry.I’ll leave the racial aspects of things in his hands, except to remember that it was Richard Pryor who said of the legal system: “You go down there looking for justice; that’s what you find: Just us.”I certainly agree that we bust kids for stuff we used to […]
I like Nick Anderson’s cartoon, but I don’t take it literally.While I applaud the artistry of tying together a couple of threads in our deteriorating democracy, to take it literally would be a bit overwrought.Then again, I don’t think you should wait for an immediate, personal threat before you question what the hell is going […]
It’s been four years since I lost my last full-time, ass-in-the-chair job, which means I can chuckle instead of wince at today’s Candorville.These days, the question isn’t “how long will I last in the job?” so much as “how long will the job last?”Technically, I was canned a few weeks before the paper I edited […]
There have been a number of government-spying cartoons, most of them not all that good. I like Stuart Carlson’s cartoon, but it does more to point out the inconsistency than to analyze it. That is, are critics genuinely surprised at the end result of inviting the camel’s nose under the tent flap? Or is this […]
People love cartoons that strike a personal chord — those are the ones that end up on the fridge — but that usually really means a universal chord, something we can all relate to, or, as people say to cartoonists, “It’s like you’re looking through my window.”A cartoon that actually does strike a personal chord […]
Matt Wuerker often cuts through the fog to the heart of the matter. If I were one of the Great Rightwing Outrage Peddlars I wouldn’t want anyone talking about the IRS convention, because it seriously undermines the conspiracy theory aspect of the Tea Party “investigations.”Wuerker’s depiction of very stupid people doing very stupid things is much […]