Tom Toles has won the Herblock Prize for editorial cartooning, which is particularly sweet given that he took over Herb Block’s spot at the Washington Post after that legendary cartoonist’s death.The Post is also home to one of the better comics columns and Michael Cavna’s write-up on this is the definitive report, and, best of […]
*Phew!*After a rant like yesterday’s, it’s good to just relax with something really, really stupid, like today’s Pros & Cons.Best part is that Stan doesn’t even pause in what he’s doing, much less look over. You can see in the second panel that he did hear what was said, but he’s apparently been there before.Kieran […]
Candorville this week is chronicling (heh heh) the death spiral of the newspaper industry.There haven’t been a lot of points over the past eight or 10 years where this story arc wouldn’t be somewhat timely, but it’s particularly so this week, given that the NY Daily News just slashed its comics by 33 percent and […]
Comics Reporter spotlighted this timely blog entry on the recent earthquake in New Zealand. This is only the first of several multi-panel pieces that comprise the blog entry, so go have a look at the rest.The blogger/cartoonist/writer/graphic designer, Sarah E. Laing, lives in Auckland and her blog is a reflection on whatever crosses her path, […]
I’ve been waiting for a “Sinfest” to come along that (first criterion) was worthy of being named CSOTD and (second criterion) would be comprehensible to newcomers and (finally) wouldn’t offend people who had not before come across this Manichean delight.There have been many, many that satisfied the first criterion. This is a brilliantly conceived and […]
Ed Stein may be waxing nostalgic this week, as his new strip, “Freshly Squeezed,” shifts focus from the home to the office, where everyone except ownership is preparing to do more with less.”Freshly Squeezed” is a spinoff from “Denver Square,” a strip Ed did for The Rocky Mountain News for about a decade. Launched September […]
Journalist and cartoonist Joe Sacco gave a talk at Dartmouth last night, as part of a visit for the Center for Cartoon Studies across the state line in White River Junction. It was worth going to, and worth breaking with our usual format to report on. In his books, Sacco provides stark but human […]
Speaking of comic strips that could be featured here just about every day, Frazz is one of the most consistently intelligent, funny and thought-provoking cartoons out there. Jef Mallett, who not only competes in triathlons but has written (and, of course, illustrated) a book about them, does sometimes hit on physical fitness more often than […]
I have, in the back of my mind, a small list of strips which I need to be aware of not featuring too often. In part, it’s because part of what I like to do is to introduce new strips to readers, and in part it’s because I don’t want the blog to become too […]
One of those rare two-fers, in part because I don’t think this general topic is going away soon but I don’t want to turn into a one-issue blog, and in part because, while I like both cartoons, they feature different but critical takes on the issue.At the top, Clay Jones goes after the alleged […]
Sherman’s Lagoon is a successful strip, but, for some reason, Jim Toomey’s masterful cartooning seems to fly under the radar. There is occasionally some buzz when he takes on an ecological issue, like the brutal and wasteful massacre of sharks for shark fin soup. But, on a daily basis, he produces a strip that […]
Nothing to add to this 1895 Punch classic, except that it is the work of George du Maurier and that it added a phrase to the lexicon that has not lost its value over the years. (If the caption is not legible, click on the picture for a larger version)
Stuart Carlson not only calls upon the Old Testament concept of the scapegoat, but depicts someone already living on hay, which brings to mind a Joe Hill parody of an old hymn. (Those links provide the lyrics to each)The issue in Wisconsin, and of public employees generally, is not as simple as either side paints […]
Today’s xkcd has one of the best fourth-panel surprise punchlines I’ve seen in a long time, and put me on the floor possibly because the precise topic of trying to get things done amid such distractions just came up in a Facebook comment about yesterday’s CSotD.comI wish old Ben’s disembodied voice would occasionally tell me […]
Morey Amsterdamused to say that you don’t have to have a great sense of humor to be a comedian. You just have to have a great memory. Considering that he was called “The Human Joke Machine,” I guess he’d know. He used to do challenges where somebody would throw out a random topic and he’d […]