Sheldon, one of the more intelligent comics around, with an observation about stupidity.Or, really “cupidity,” since a lot of the stupidity on the Internet is simply a case of click-farming. This whole thing of “On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a dog” has gotten a little out of hand and has morphed into “On the […]
Jeff Danziger on the kerfuffle over Trump’s endorsement of Romney, in a cartoon that over-analysis only improves.Rodeo clowns went through a period when they insisted on being called “bullfighters” rather than “clowns,” but, unlike pundits, they seem to have gotten over that and have embraced their dual role of protecting the cowboys while they entertain […]
Reply All is the Cathy of the New Millennium or of the 20-teens or whatever we’re calling this period.Well, no, it isn’t. But you have to start somewhere, and that’s the historic parallel.Younger readers think of Cathy as a strip where this neurotic woman just tried on bathing suits and ran around screaming “Ack! Ack!” […]
Cartoon Movement, along with Radio Netherlands Worldwide and Stripdagen Haarlem, a comics festival in Holland, have announced the 10 finalists in their “Cartoon Spring Competition” for young (under 35) cartoonists from the Arab world, drawing on the topic of the Arab Spring.As of this morning, six of the 10 are posted; this one is by […]
The National Cartoonists’ Society had their big annual convention and tux fest and plaque-and-trophy dinner this weekend. I’ve long been on record as not particularly liking awards, but I’m also on record as liking chances to get together with colleagues, especially when alcohol is involved, and I’m jealous of everyone who had a chance to […]
One reason I can pull up strips for “Classic” postings is that, before I started the blog, I would save strips that I found particularly amusing or thought-provoking. I rarely do that anymore, since I post them here. But I’m certainly going to keep a copy of today’s Sinfest. I’ve got nothing to add except to […]
My favorite Scandanavian goth chick, Nemi, explains vegetarianism but mostly explains explanation.Whether Nemi’s creator, Lise Myhre, was ever really anything much like Nemi has long since become a moot point. The strip is now 15 years old and Myhre is now 36, and the married mother of a five-year-old.And blonde.Whatever may have been the case […]
For a week or two, I’ve been watching “Big Top” at GoComics, seeing that it was coming to an end and thinking I should provide a heads-up when it restarted. “Big Top” reruns have re-started. Rob Harrell did Big Top for five years and I was poking around to see if I could find out why he […]
I find myself continually frustrated with the political process, in large part because the people who seem to question it also seem unwilling, or unable, to access it.The great success of the Civil Rights Movement and, to a lesser extent, the Anti-War Movement, was the grassroots actions that did not simply confront the system but […]
Matt Bors, with a correction to a current news story.I stopped off yesterday at Akwesasne, the Mohawk community that straddles the border they don’t admit exists, as part of my book-promotion tour. One of the women at the cultural center had provided me with some guidance for a character, a Mohawk trapper, and I wanted […]
The Classics Illustrated version of “In The Reign of Terror” set me on a road that I am on today, quite literally.I’m not sure whether I read it when I was 10 or 11, because I was in the same cabin both summers, but it was definitely in the summer and definitely in Algonquin.Classics Illustrated […]
This Real Life Adventures ran November 30, 2001, and has been a favorite of mine ever since.If you’ve been reading the blog for awhile, you’ll know that “Classic” postings are code for my being out of town and unable to post. In this case, I’m back home in the Adirondacks, where people indeed have tree […]
Rabbits Against Magic tackles the really irrational part of sports superstitions.As opposed, y’know, to the rational part.I’m fairly tolerant of player superstitions: If not stepping on the first base line as you head back to the dugout at the end of an inning, or wearing a particular T-shirt under your pads, or not shaving before […]
Jeff Danziger covers the coverage.I am so glad to be out of the newsroom.I used to come into the briefing every day with at least two stories already working, just to avoid being assigned something stupid. When that didn’t work, I’d try to talk the editor into an angle for the assignment that wasn’t, well, […]
I think it took Richard Thompson a few strips after his enforced layoff to get back in the swing of things over at Cul de Sac, but he’s back to knocking them over the wall on a regular basis. This is the opposite of Saturday Night Live Syndrome, where, a few seasons in, you learned to […]