I’m not a Scrooge, but I’m not much for about 80 percent of Christmas stuff and I like to think that’s because about 80 percent of it is either too early or too … um … too much like drinking maple syrup.Which I did, by the way, at the age of about 10. And I […]
Dave Kellett delivers one right into my wheelhouse with today’s Sheldon.”Authenticity” and “filth” have become one-and-the-same in Hollywood, and logic, romance and storytelling be damned. I don’t mind a little smut in a movie, but I hate gratuitous filth.Unlike Arthur, I was warned off “Waterworld” in time, but I’ve seen clips, and it’s certainly not […]
Francesco Marciuliano is at his best this time of year, when his penchant for incisive bad taste becomes a delightful antidote to the cloying sentimental dreck that, really, is equally bad taste only more cynically applied.And Medium Large, his almost-always-funny blog, is currently featuring a riff on the Peanuts Christmas specials that was originally posted […]
Dylan Horrocks has created this faux-Tintin cover as an auction item for a crowd-sourcing effort to send freelance journalist and fellow Kiwi Jon Stevenson back to Afghanistan for another look at the situation there, where New Zealand has SAS forces stationed.Of course, it’s brilliant of him to riff on the current interest in Tintin, whose […]
One good thing about Newt Gingrich moving into the forefront of the GOP Nomination Extravaganza is that he inspires more incisive commentary.As has been noted before, others in this college of clowns have been so ridiculous that they left cartoonists with nothing to work with. Cain, Perry, Bachmann and such were like the pathetic, deluded […]
One of the problems with making “Cul de Sac” the CSOTD is that Richard Thompson can contain an entire rant within, in this case, five panels. He leaves me little upon which to fulminate.But not today.In the real world, I edit a publication for middle-school students which often contains book and movie reviews. There is […]
I love Tom Toles’ ability to create genuinely funny cartoons with substance, and much of that humor comes from a simple style that allows, for example, this plummeting European to maintain a completely bland expression as he assesses his situation.As the EU struggles to avoid an across-the-board collapse, it begins to seem like the Black […]
I’m becoming a fan of Vladimir Kazanevsky, who I featured here just a month ago with another cartoon published on the Cartoon Movement site, of which I am also a fan.That cartoon had a great metaphor, but employed it in terms of a specific situation in his native Ukraine. This one, by contrast, is sadly […]
I don’t have an iron-clad rule about avoiding political cartoons, as regular readers will know and newcomers can find by scrolling through the recent past. But I’ve been consciously putting them second or third in the daily queue as I collect the three or four potential candidates for CSOTD, for a couple of reasons.One is […]
Lawyer jokes are too easy, but that doesn’t mean you should avoid them entirely. Otherwise, we’d miss things like today’s Non Sequitur.I don’t dislike lawyers in private life. They are, for the most part, intelligent and well-informed, with a quick wit necessary to the profession which is then further honed on years of noting irregularities, […]
Notice in today’s Blondie that, in this carpool of four white folks ticking off their favorite part of the Thanksgiving meal, not one of them said, “macaroni and cheese.”I’m highlighting the venerable old strip not because today’s installment cracked me up but because it segues neatly into an infuriating example of rampant online stupidity.In case […]
Sandra Bell Lundy is an expert at capturing small moments, and today’s “Between Friends” is a good example of how she likes to celebrate and deflate the absurdities and inconsistencies of life.It took me awhile to get into this strip, because she employs a realistic level of self-deprecating humor that is not the norm, even […]
Well, not quite new, since this is Episode Two of The Conjurers, a weekly on-line strip by Brian Anderson that updates Mondays, but Episode One is only a click away, so catching up is no problem.Brian also does the very different syndicated strip “Dog Eat Doug,” which, I think, proves nothing except that it’s possible […]
In today’s Sally Forth, Ted shows that he is, in fact, not completely insane by taking a stand against Star Wars revisionism. Lucas’s constant tweaks are not only a betrayal of his fans but a distressingly unnecessary example of how history is not only written by winners but revised by them as well.Nothing against “director’s […]
Over at Daily Kos, Jen Sorensen riffs on what happened when our children stepped into the crossfire between — among — those who care about them and the hordes of science haters, Obama haters, radical anarchists and lobbyists.Poor little mushrooms just popped up and got mowed down. Never had a chance.For those who missed it, […]