You may wish to put a dishtowel under your computer to catch some of the dripping sarcasm in Matt Bors’s current commentary. Or read it straight up and assume he’s my age.Sarcasm is a difficult tool because, to begin with, there are a great many people with no sense of irony, and, in addition, it’s […]
When cartoonists and cartoon fans talk about their early influences or the ones that really got them interested in comics as a medium, the strips you hear about tend to be the groundbreakers, like Barnaby, Pogo, and Peanuts. I liked those strips, though I only saw Barnaby in a collection my parents had and Walt Kelly’s […]
If I didn’t know that Wiley Miller keeps average deadlines for Non Sequitur, I’d suspect he was listening over the state line to NHPR’s “The Exchange” last week, when the guest was T.R. Reid and the topic was medical care here and in other countries.Reid puts the lie to claims that medicine overseas is tremendously […]
Bill BussingerThere will be a lot of Steve Jobs obituary cartoons over the next week, but this designer has nailed it. Every once in a long while, a “weeper” cartoon works. This one works.What I find interesting — and a bit depressing — is that I’m seeing cartoons this morning that are the same as […]
Yeah, I’m back at Rhymes With Orange barely a week later. As I’ve said before, I could feature this strip three or four times a week and I’d still be holding back.Today’s panel, however, touches on three things: Two that fascinate me and one that infuriates me. I’ll try not to let discussion of #3 […]
The blurb in the rail includes “made me think” as one of the criteria for being here, and Jeff Stahler’s cartoon did make me think.I’ve got a rather large bone to pick with him, however, in that, while this is a spectacularly bad time to be in the job market, there is nothing particularly special […]
Matt Wuerker on the inability of the media to focus on anything that matters.The potential candidacy of NJ Governor Chris Christie has brought some new life to the increasingly odd Republican presidential campaign, but the only reason I know who he is, is that I happen to follow a cartoonist or two or three who […]
This is not a comic strip, but I am claiming personal privilege to feature it because (A) I want to and (B) you’ll be glad I did. It’s a quick read that will stick to your ribs.Dylan Meconis and I go back to 2005, when I was working on a serialized collection of mythology for […]
Boy, if only it were.The New Adventures of Queen Victoria draws upon the Book of Konigsberg to refute the muddled preaching of Pat Robertson.Of course, Pat Robertson has long been gold for political cartoonists. Here’s a piece I did in 2005, when I was producing educational features for the paper and good old Pat was […]
In today’s “Tina’s Groove,” Tina contemplates the lure of signing up to be cyber-stalked in exchange for making a comment that will instantly melt within an ocean of comments or will go unread by anyone on a story that she alone cares about.Once she signs up to be a member, of course, she will belong […]
This past March, artist Joe Staton and writer Mike Curtis took over Dick Tracy and brought it back from a level of conceptual chaos that had gradually gone beyond appealing camp into unreadable nonsense.Over the past half year, they’re returned it to a basic cops-and-robbers strip with shorter, more coherent plot lines and villains […]
Okay, he’s no Chris Christie. He’s no Lou Christie. He isn’t even Julie Christie.But he is the savior I’ve been hoping would return and enter the presidential race: Kevin the Lost Bunny of the Apocalypse, and now he’s back in Prickly City and ready to redeem the nation, I’m sure much as you would […]
Rhymes with Orange is on the short list of comics that would be here every day if I didn’t handicap my choices. This one breaks through because I have an uncanny ability to watch brilliant creative ideas drift off into the ether and to see entire days on which I have time to be productive […]
Derf Backderf on the direct correlation between television and later life. (As always, click on the cartoon for a larger version)Or perhaps more specifically, on the correlation between vacuous-but-well-promoted scientific studies and screaming headlines. If the researchers in this study had used a less popular fast-paced cartoon, their study would have languished in the lower […]
It was pointed out to me that I’ve featured a lot of political cartoons lately. Well, the blog is about what comics and cartoons have struck me, and I guess I’ve been struck a lot by the political situation lately: The economy, of course, and also the nascent presidential campaign.And in particular the whole thing […]