Ah, brave new world that has such comics in it!Today’s Arlo & Janis is potentially confusing because neither character is regularly the fall guy. Sometimes Arlo worries too much about things that shouldn’t bother him and sometimes Janis is innocently clueless about technology. In this case, however, I don’t see how Jimmy Johnson can be […]
Okay, first of all, Hilary Price is completely wrong about my mom. And I met her mom at her open studio, and I’m pretty sure she’s wrong about her, too. In fact, I have no idea who she’s talking about.And that wasn’t me laughing, either.Oh boy.I have a feeling that this year’s Mother’s Day […]
With a little more time to ponder, Signe Wilkinson provides a more outward-looking cartoon than the chest-thumping, flag-waving panels that appeared in the immediate aftermath of the death of bin Laden. Note that the event isn’t even referenced here; only the timing suggests that it was part of her thought process.The world changes quickly. New […]
I have looked at scores of cartoons relating to the death of bin Laden, but you shouldn’t imagine that I was narrowing down the field to select one that was “best.”I was simply trying to find one that wasn’t obvious or even lame. One, to start with, that didn’t reference 72 virgins, or demand […]
… squirrels.Speed Bump. Dave Coverly. I see coffee cups in this man’s future.
Here’s my take on single-panel Sunday strips: They’re justified if (A) the artwork is such that it would have been wasted in a tiny weekday strip or (B) the gag is so good that you’re going to want to post it on your fridge and have it stand out.Today’s Between Friends could have worked without […]
As I’ve mentioned before, Cul de Sac is bringing back memories of my life as a rec league soccer coach.Memories, flashbacks, whatever you want to call them.You start the season driving around searching for the practice field, yes. That’s training for when you have to drive around finding the away games. Which, in turn, is […]
I don’t often comment on continuity strips, because, by the time I realize we’re into a good storyline, it’s generally too late for newcomers to catch up. But there are parts of a person’s education that should not be neglected and, if you like comic strips, “Steve Canyon” should be part of your world. With […]
Wiley Miller does everything right with today’s Non Sequitur. He starts with a nice variation on the familiar line of increasing-sized fish eating each other and updates the metaphor so that all the victim fishes are much smaller than the big fish who is eating them.Then he uses the bogus claim that it’s going to […]
Tina’s Groove on the intersection of nostalgia and dementia. The popularity of A&E’s “Hoarders” is based on how much better we feel about our own clutter when we watch it. This theory also covers “The Biggest Loser” and “The Dog Whisperer” and any number of other shows featuring people whose lives have hit the wall, […]
I’m not trying to shift into all-politics all-the-time; that’s just what seems to be hot the past few days.And this Jeff Danziger cartoon is irresistable. There was a point in this war where the escape of 500 prisoners would have felt like a disaster, but that point has passed. It seems like just one more […]
The western media has had plenty of cartoons about the price of oil, but at Cartoon Movement today, Kenyan cartoonist Victor Ndula comments on its cost, not in terms of reindeer and polar bears, but from an African perspective.I’m certainly aware of the price at the pump — I recently spent $62 for a fillup […]
Senator Arthur Vandenburg (R-Mich) would have fit pretty well into the current Republican party, as far as economics goes, since he was a staunch opponent of the New Deal. But I doubt the current Republicans would forgive his support of the United Nations and, in particular, they would not want to hear that the author […]
Among the things we might consider to save tax money, how about cutting off these bloodsuckers? Tom the Dancing Bug on the scam artists and thieves who recruit the underemployed to apply for Pell Grants and student loans, and to use up their GI Bill funding on their behalf, pressuring people to sign up who […]
I may be a daily blogger, but I still have my Luddite side, as well as my cheap side, and have not gone to a Smartphone. This is in part because, as a struggling freelancer, I have enough to do just to pay for access at home, never mind adding another monthly bill so […]