If you’re not already following Prickly City, this might be a good time to start. The election of Kevin, the Lost Bunny of the Apocalypse, to the US Senate has produced some good laughs and the prospect of his making a run for the presidency is promising.For a number of years, the answer to “Aren’t […]
No kidding.Darrin Bell recently did some right-to-the-edge deadline work on the death of bin Laden, and he’s done it again in today’s Candorville. But, even getting his lead time down to a minimum, he had to time the strip to hit when the laughter was over, but before the coverage let up.One can only hope […]
Mark Parisi shared this creative use of an “Off the Mark” panel on his Facebook page. The Spanish teacher deleted the original caption — “I give it three months.” — and asked her students to fill in a new joke, and gave this one — “That man needs to shave.” — the highest grade for using […]
Bud Grace is capable of setting up seemingly significant plot shifts in Piranha Club and then blowing them away with a simple flick of the reset button — often starring himself. And that may still be in the offing.But it’s starting to look like Ernie is really headed down the aisle, and not a moment […]
Keith Knight’s “Knight Life” offers up one of those jokes that is absolutely, completely stupid but that, once you’ve heard it, becomes permanently embedded in your brain.From this moment on, every time anybody mentions GPS, I’m going to think about some daffy driver going the wrong way because she thinks she’s got an Sd9.Thanks, Keef. […]
Pat Oliphant on priorities.After the discussion the other day about political courage versus partisan hackery, it occurred to me that one reason we’ve been in Afghanistan so much longer than we were in Vietnam is that nobody in the major parties wants to stand up and ask the sorts of questions raised by Oliphant’s cartoon. […]
The nice thing about a single-panel strip like “Rubes” is that, when Leigh Rubin gives in to the temptation to do a really stupid pun, he doesn’t have any space to tread on it by having characters “react.”I can’t tell you how many times I reject a strip for CSOTD because the cartoonist dulled a […]
Cory Thomas’s “Watch Your Head” continues to be one of the most underappreciated and most interesting of syndicated strips.It’s always risky to do gags that require the reader to know the characters and moreso when the characters change. The gang at Oliver Otis University are in constant flux, which — while a rarity in comic […]
Pat Bagley on how far we’ve fallen in four decades.There was a time when political leaders thought about their positions on various issues. They certainly weren’t immune to the concept of party loyalty, but neither were they slaves to it. We could justifiably point to Congress and say we preferred our system to Parliamentary democracy, […]
A major advantage of webcomics is short deadlines, and so The New Adventures of Queen Victoria is able to jump on this week’s announcement by DC Comics that they are rebooting their line of comics and starting over, including numbering their next issues as “#1.”Apparently, she are not amused, or impressed.If you pursue that link […]
I love disclaimers.I love the lawyer-directed disclaimers, like the one on the Q-Tips box that warns you not to stick the Q-Tip in your ear. Obviously, they don’t want to get sued if you puncture your ear drum with their product, but, really, what would happen to sales of Q-Tips if everybody heeded that warning?And […]
The poor old Food Pyramid has gone from helpful to pointless to meaningless, and Bad Reporter is about as accurate in satirizing it as the USDA has been in improving it. Despite how the newscasters derided it in the process of reading the USDA and FLOTUS press releases introducing the new whateverthehellitis on last night’s […]
It’s tough being a cartoonist today, because the world seem determined to turn any gag, no matter how silly or far-fetched, into reality. Take today’s “The Duplex,” for example.That’s not a gag. That’s a report on the state of the union.In going through today’s comics, there were several political cartoons taking the media to task […]
Here’s a chance to get in at the start of a new adventure on a relatively new comic. “The Lost Side of Suburbia” is a clumsy name that doesn’t address the topic or voice of Kory Merritt’s strip, but it’s worth putting that aside and plunging into a storytelling strip with some appeal.LSoS is a […]
As stated here and elsewhere, there are some strips I have to restrain myself from using too often, and “Cul de Sac” leads that small group. But today’s strip is not just timely in light of Richard Thompson’s having won the Reuben this past weekend but is also a very solid demonstration of why he […]