You kind of know that a strip called “It’s All About You” isn’t going to miss the target on this topic.I don’t read a lot of self-help books. The concept seems a bit of an oxymoron and Tony Murphy points out exactly why: Self-help experts are apostles of the ancient wisdom embodied by that paragon […]
Oh, if only it were that easy.No, not the idea that you could dress like this and pick up girls in a bar. Bizarro has that part down. It would be that easy.It’s the “now what?” part that is complex.You’d have go to her place, because you sure couldn’t bring her to yours, unless you actually […]
Sometimes a gag is so insanely inventive that you just have to pause a moment in admiration.Open House as a sting operation to nab unwary dropouts. Ladies and gentlemen, Keith Knight.Today’s Knight Life works with more elements than the “You’ve Won A Ticket To The Super Bowl” sting operations that periodically nail fugitives, but […]
I don’t often cover cartooning news here, but this is a case in which several lines cross. Word from Michigan is that Felix Grabowski has died. This nice write-up on Patch.com talks about his contributions to the early work of putting newspapers on-line, but also mentions his work with Newspapers-in-Education.Felix and his wife, Jan, […]
The comics pages are currently full of back-to-school gags, but Jeff Corriveau goes well past the obvious in today’s Deflocked. Comic strips have only a few seconds to capture the mind, but the more I look at this, panel-by-panel, the more I find to admire in it.”Back to School” is an almost mandatory annual topic […]
Darrin Bell brings a deft, expert touch to Candorville: He manages to take some of his own experiences and then fictionalize them until they are universal.The required balancing act is the key to successful fiction, and something that often comes up in the plethora of semi-autobiographical strips that are out there, mostly on the web […]
I work with middle-schoolers. I write for middle-schoolers. I like middle-schoolers. But today’s Rhymes With Orange sums up the essential weirdness of middle school.Any system that puts sixth grade boys and eighth grade girls on the same planet is suspect. Putting them in the same building is insane. It’s like all the boys are Rupert […]
Willy & Ethel pretty much sum it up.There’s a certain type of person out here in the country who will beep the little beeper and lock their car to go into a store or the post office, and everyone turns their heads at the sound.It’s a little insulting, really. We weren’t going to rob you. […]
I guess it’s okay to feature Six Chix twice in the same week if you’re featuring a different … um … chick. Stephanie Piro gets the “You must be looking in my windows” award for today’s piece.I have more than once decided to stream a movie and then spent so much time trying to decide […]
Well, Eric Cantor seems willing to back up his heartless insanity, I’ll give him that. Kevin Siers has the best take on a situation that is a part of something that will make future generations scratch their heads.I think most people know that we’re not talking a few wet basements here in NH/VT. We’ve got […]
My son asked if I were going to write about the attack on Syrian cartoonist Ali Ferzat, who was set upon by thugs who attempted to break his hands for drawing cartoons critical of the Assad government. I replied that the format of CSotD requires a relevant comic strip to kick off the discussion, and, […]
Rina Piccolo hits the nail on the head with today’s Six Chix panel.There are jobs out there, as long as you don’t mind taking two or three and being paid for one.This is not theory talking; I was unemployed for about eight months after my last newspaper job ended with the death of the paper.I […]
Edge City seems to have a predeliction for picking up little moments in family life that haven’t yet been hammered to death on the funny pages. They don’t slam every ball over the fence, but they get a lot of extra base hits, while just the originality makes the strip worth following (and they do […]
I don’t often pick a cartoon based solely on its artwork, and this Damien Glez cartoon certainly has a deserving message beyond its art alone.But in other hands, it would be “yep, he’s right” and move on to the next one.There is something obscene, after all, in the western nations obsessing over the problems of […]
Joel Pett offers a thoughtful perspective on the new MLK memorial on the National Mall.I’m old enough to remember the Civil Rights Movement, but just young enough to have not quite been an active part of it. I say “active part” because we’re all part of it still, in the sense of “You’re either part […]