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Judging from yesterday’s comments, it is widely felt that there is no job as humiliating as not having a job.Okay, well, let’s just let Bug ratchet things up a little here …

Derf doesn’t say what this Statue of Liberty clown was selling, but it’s almost certainly Liberty Tax Service, a franchise that pulls this cheesy stunt all across the country.Except that the guy wouldn’t get the job if he were just going to stand there looking humiliated. The Liberty Tax signholders are supposed to dance and […]

The 6-days-a-week flashback continues at Pooch Cafe, telling the tale of Poncho’s puppyhood. The current arc not only shows his first encounter with Carmen, who we all (except Poncho-puppy) know is destined to be Chazz’s wife and, thus, Poncho’s rival for his affections, but it’s also his first close-up experience of cats, of which she […]

    Non Sequitur on the disconnect between what people say they want and what they want.A lot of politics involves telling people what they want to hear, or telling them things in a way that makes them think that’s what they wanted.For the Fidel Castros, Moammar Ghadafis and Mahmoud Amahdinijads, that means keeping them from […]

Confession: Most days, I compile the CSTOD.com posting first thing in the morning, with a goal of getting it online no later that 6:30 a.m. Eastern Time. But when I saw Jimmy Margulies’s cartoon the night before, and knowing that the time change would make posting on time difficult, I went ahead and posted before […]

Yesterday, I promised that, if any cartoons about the disaster in Japan managed to rise above the level of weeping samurai, you’d see it here.Jimmy Margulies, you insensitive lout! Where’s your social conscientiousness?Nice work. 

When Wisconsin’s GOP pulled that razzle-dazzle trick the other night, I was reminded of the famous but apparently apocryphal quote from Admiral Yamamoto following the attack on Pearl Harbor about having awakened a sleeping giant. I may not have been the only person for whom it resonated, as Mike Luckovich draws on the overall concept […]

Monty has been sitting in a coffeehouse all week, writing great literature on his laptop. In most strips, I use “all week” to mean a story arc that has gone on all week, but in this case, I’m pretty sure he’s been going back every day, because he’s very serious about writing. On a laptop […]

The ongoing tale of Lemont’s college crush picks up a little speed today at Candorville. Darrin Bell is a deft-enough storyteller that you know he’s not going to make the fatal mistake of ever letting Lemont and Susan get together, and it would be just as bad to let Lemont realize that Susan isn’t just […]

Speaking, as we were yesterday, of strips that you need to read for awhile to get, here’s a chance to get in on the groundfloor of a continuity webstrip.Terry Laban, otherwise known as the husband in the husband-and-wife team that creates “Edge City,” has launched a webcomic called “Muktuk Wolfsbreath: Hardboiled Shaman,” that will update […]

“Watch Your Head” is one of the most character-driven strips out there, with a cast of a half-dozen students at fictional Oliver Otis University, a thinly disguised stand-in for artist Cory Thomas’s alma mater, Howard.It’s not clear what year everyone is, since they are in Comic Strip Time and, like comic strip students everywhere, begin […]

Cul de Sac is on my short list of strips to avoid using every day, to the point where I probably don’t use it some times when it deserves to be here for fear that I’ll start using it way too often, and also for fear that the next day’s offering will be even more […]

Doonesbury continues to explore the gap between the privileged kids who head off to private, four-year colleges after high school, and the working class stiffs who end up in places like Iraq, Afghanistan and trailer parks.Alex should be embarrassed over her lack of empathy for Leo when it comes to goals, but I wouldn’t be […]

The Charlie Sheen phenomenon has gone from curious to overdone in a very short time. There have been a couple of genuinely inventive applications of his disjointed comments — notably the sequence of cat photos at Medium Large and the Peanuts parody by Jimmy Kimmel’s crew — but it is, at heart, a freak show […]

   Oliver Schopf, cartoonist for the Standard of Vienna, entitles this beautiful strip “Fata Morgana,” and the reflections just before the Promised Land do indeed suggest a mirage.Which does a very nice job of setting us up with a promise and then dashing our hopes, bringing about a truly brilliant level of empathy with those […]