Filed under: Comic Strip of the Day

Actually, I’ve been trying to keep it down to 750 words lately.Today, even 20 seems futile.Well done, Darrin.

I hadn’t really thought about this issue until Tak Bui brought it up today on PC and Pixel.Opticians use the term “tromboning” to describe a person moving their reading material back and forth, looking for the point at which their aging eyes will focus on it. And the older I get, the more tromboning I […]

 The auction of original art from Team Cul de Sac is now online and happening through June 10. There is some truly collectible work here as well as some fun stuff, and it benefits Parkinson’s Research in the name of a great cartoonist, a friend of the blog and a valued friend of the blogger.Have […]

 Deflocked takes on one of the oddities of the current political circus.The USDA provides subsidies to schools for lunch programs, and has decided that, in order to qualify for assistance from taxpayers, schools should not add to the health problems of our nation’s children by serving them fatty, sugary, sodium-laden foods.This has been met with […]

We learned this week that there is no “Republican War on Women” and that Republicans are actually pro-choice and rather militant about it.No, not that kind of choice. In fact, Jan Brewer, Arizona’s Republican governor, just signed a bill into law stating that life begins before sex, which will help in the party’s ultimate goal […]

Tom Spurgeon’s Comics Reporter is one of my most important stops of the morning, despite the fact that about 90% of what he talks about relates to comic books, which are a different medium from the strips I talk about. For one thing, the sheer volume of stuff he posts every day means that I’m going […]

Okay, this The City strip is actually from last week or last strip or however often Derf updates. GoComics doesn’t seem to be updating its non-dailies very well and I’ve had to go poke around for some of the political cartoons.Most of what I had missed was that apparently when Mike Wallace got to heaven, […]

I have a daughter-in-law who is a psychology professor and to whom I periodically send good shrink toons that she can use to liven up lectures or that may simply give her a laff. But I’ve told her she has to keep track of Pros & Cons on her own because it’s so consistently funny […]

If you haven’t been keeping up with Sally Forth, you’re not missing a lot of laughs. Sally has been ordered to make a boatload of personnel cuts, and Ces decided to let us watch the process, in large part, through the eyes of one of the potential victims of this edict.Which is not boffo laff-fest […]

The blossoming scandal over the General Services Administration’s fun-filled 2010 convention in Las Vegas was served up to cartoonists on a platter, by virtue of the GSA hiring a clown and fitting themselves out in silly costumes and then video recording the results.Matt Wuerker is one of several commentators who seem to have caught on […]

Today’s triple-feature starts out innocently enough, in Between Friends: Kids take for granted the technology they have known most of their lives.Admittedly, it’s a bit of a stretch to assume Danny doesn’t know people who don’t have multiple cell phones (grandparents?). But, even if he wouldn’t likely be unaware of the concept of a home with […]

In today’s Non Sequitur, Wiley correctly points out the absurdity of whateverthehell is going on the minds of some gentlemen, many of whom may be Republicans. I’m making no generalities, no assumptions, no accusations.After all, it’s not fair to assume, for example, that the majority of members of the Augusta National Golf Club are Republicans. It […]

It’s been just over a year since Joe Staton and Mike Curtis took over and revitalized the venerable Dick Tracy franchise, and they’ve really hit a nice stride with shorter arcs and villains that are just evil enough to be villains and just silly enough to be fun. Any nitwit can create a hero or a leading […]

Okay, here is Lucas Turnbloom’s strip “Imagine This” for today:… and here is the little summary of the strip’s premise that runs on the GoComics site:Some adults wistfully wonder what became of the imaginary friends of their childhood. Not Darin. His are sitting on the couch, too-constant companions sharing every strange moment of his cheerfully […]

I don’t know the nature of the treatments Richard Thompson was recently undergoing, but one of the side effects evidently was the ability to see into the near future, or possibly the far distant past or perhaps to eavesdrop on editorial meetings at Nature Magazine.Whatever the case, he is back at the helm of Cul […]