Steve Artley on political tone. I don’t know that we have had a lot of truly polite political campaigns, but we have had candidates who attempted to leave the mudslinging and the waving of bloody shirts to their surrogates. Good manners need to be mutual, if you don’t want to come off like Michael Dukakis, who […]
The mother’s smile absolutely makes it in today’s Rhymes With Orange.Twenty years later, she remains oblivious to the horrors she inflicted on her poor child.No, wait: The little inset of the school picture makes it. Gaah!Wait, no, it’s the fact that the now-adult kid is still obsessing over it all.This is a very funny cartoon […]
I have to say that. As you read this, he’s sitting next to me.Christopher Baldwin and I are tabling at the Battle of Plattsburgh weekend in Plattsburgh, in support of two local history books, “Freehand,” which is set in the War of 1812 of which the battle was a decisive moment, and “Hooch,” which is […]
I have praised Scott Stantis several times here for (A) being a conservative with a sense of humor and (B) not being an ideologue.Here’s a particularly fine example, both in and of itself and in contrast to a lot of other stuff.The past couple of weeks have seen some really poor cartooning, particularly from the […]
Alix, the younger daughter in Stone Soup, has been going through a transformation this summer into what promises to be a bright, curious little girl who, I presume, will provide a contrast to her older, more slacker-like sister. What I particularly like about the move is that we’ve already established that she’s a funny kid […]
Pickles nails one.I like conversations about language, and there are some nails-on-chalk mistakes that bother me. One thing I edit out of reporters’ stories is use of the word “that” when it is referencing people. “John Smith is someone that …” becomes “John Smith is someone who …” under my pen.Howsoever.This does not make me smarter […]
I’ve been meaning to point out the current Sherman’s Lagoon arc, which stands out not simply for being funny but for suggesting that Jim Toomey actually has some idea what “The Hunger Games” is about. (The arc starts here, and then you can use the “next cartoon” buttons to follow it forward. Yes, I know […]
Meecy-micey, atsa some big cartoon, dere, Tom Tomorrow. All those panels and not a clunker in the group. (This might be a good time to remind you that you can click on the image for a larger version.)I’ve got nothing to add. He covered it all. And any one of these panels could have been […]
Gil is one of the very, very few strips acknowledging Labor Day as more than a last chance to grill burgers. The other I found was Non Sequitur. Mike Thompson took a wack at it, too, but made it into a partisan attack, which seems a bit off-topic even in an election cycle, given the […]
Deflocked comments on something or other. I’m taking a break this weekend; you figure it out. Today’s strip fits in with a stupid, pointless argument I got into on Facebook the other day. Facebook isn’t supposed to be for arguing, but there are a few folks there who set up their pages more like Usenet, […]
The Big Lie Theory of Government is alive and well. Matt Davies does a nice job of wedding the embarrassing Clint Eastwood appearance with what should be an even more embarrassing speech by VP Candidate Paul Ryan, a presentation so full of non-operative statements that even a Fox News analyst called him out on it: (T)o anyone […]
John Deering’s Strange Brew hits me at just the right moment.Digital photography is making it easy to take good pictures, and even easier to take bad ones. GIGO was never more in evidence.I had to deal with one photo this week that had a date/time stamp on it. It wasn’t even the right date.I tell […]
Arlo and Janis once more taps into my life.While I sit here praying that, as the newspaper industry implodes around me, my skill set will get me through just a couple of more years until Social Security kicks in, Arlo notes that, yeah, most of what we know seems to be fading into oblivion.Fortunately, our generation […]
I’ve mentioned that there have been way, way, way too many political cartoons showing a hurricane with some label on it bearing down on Florida, but Jim Morin uses the actual hurricane to make a political point. That’s diffo!Not only are we going to see a large amount of taxpayer money dished out by the […]
I suppose this counts as more of a “classic” than a “comic strip of the day,” since it’s not new. But I hadn’t seen it before Mark Anderson posted a blog entry yesterday entitled “Business Cartoons You Don’t Want in Your Employees’ Cubicles.” Good title. Confucius asked, “How can one be said truly to love who […]