Kirk Walters with a spot-on metaphor for what happened in Iowa Tuesday and what it means for Rick Santorum and the next few weeks of the GOP Death March.What I particularly like about it is the innocence mixed with cruelty. Little kids do this to ants, and it isn’t nice but it doesn’t arise to […]
One of the things Jerry Scott and Jim Borgman always hear is that Zits opens conversations between parents and adolescents, whether that day’s strip features Jeremy or his folks as the butt of the joke. That’s probably why Zits is one of the top strips in terms of the number of papers that feature it, […]
Today’s “In the Bleachers” takes aim at a sports cliche so ingrained in the game of football that it seems more like terminology than jock talk.The sports department is an oddity at any daily paper. Even at a morning paper (as most are these days), the sports guys come in later and work later, because […]
Matt Wuerker brings up an interesting — which is to say, potentially troublesome — issue in editorial cartooning.When you are a witness at a trial, it’s important that you only answer the question that was asked, lest you inadvertantly raise another question you didn’t want to be asked.Same rule applies in cartooning: Tread carefully.I’m in […]
Tom Spurgeon points readers to this collection of Winsor McCay editorial cartoons. They are presented without context and appear to be illustrations for editorials rather than freestanding cartoons, but they do have their years attached to their file names, and this one is from 1914.It immediately put me in mind of this passage from Jacob […]
I saw a couple of strips today that referenced the tradition that whatever you do on New Year’s Day is what you’ll do for the whole year.To which I can only add that, if so, it’s gonna be one helluva year for Jeff Corriveau’s Deflocked.There are plenty of strips that sometimes consist mainly of a […]
Actually, just about any caption would have worked with this Non Sequitur headstone gag. After an hour or so of reading strips in which the characters fall asleep before midnight on New Year’s Eve, I was beginning to chuckle over the “This feature did not update” messages.But I’d have liked this one anyway. Headstone gags […]
I had a brief struggle this morning, because I felt like doing something kind of light and breezy and there were a couple of pretty funny strips to consider. But I got to Cartoon Movement and there was Sarah Glidden with this engrossing look at the Iraqi refugee community in Syria.Not what you’d call “light […]
Speaking of highway safety and the drivers you will never be able to reach, Frazz has an arc going about a kid from Florida coming to Frazzland (presumably Michigan) to see snow for himself.For those who live in more tropical climes, yes, the first snowfall brings out the idiocy in drivers, as well as revealing […]
Derf Backderf on the recent report from the National Transportation Safety Board about cell phone use in cars. The third panel alone makes the whole comic a winner.This is a rich topic for cartoonists, but most will take on the more logical aspects. There are already a raft of editorials online making the argument for […]
Pirate Cove has been taking a breather from its usual four-panel color absurdist shoot-em-ups to comment on comic conventions, at greater length than usual (this is only half of today’s episode, f’rinstance).It’s an interesting balance of insider and insight, and, if you’ve never been to a con, you’ll learn a few things about them here […]
I always like it when you leave comments, though the every-day pace of this blog often makes it hard to get into extended discussions here. We’ve had a few.But here’s one I’d like your thoughts on, and not necessarily in the comments section here. Over at Daily Ink, editor Brendan Burford has an entry about […]
This “Rhymes with Orange” from 2000 remains one of my favorite holiday strips.When it came out, not only did I happen to drive by one of these places every evening on my way home, but it was in a town where General Electric had a major effort going on in coming up with explanations for […]
Terri Libenson’s “Pajama Diaries” is about a mother who works at home, and one aspect of her life is that she is Jewish. That aspect isn’t what the strip is about, but it’s a key component of the family, as religion tends to be in real families that practice a religion.And I think that, for […]
There are half a dozen strips in the “Pick me! Pick me!” folder today, and whatever distractions may be driving your actions, and despite the fact that Saturday is traditionally the place cartoonists dump their least-of-the-week nominees, you should go read the funny pages. I didn’t spot any fruit cake gags and there were quite […]