Madam & Eve touches on a cultural footnote that came up in South Africa’s recent World Cup tournament: For all the changes that have gone on in that country over the past quarter century, you can’t simply legislate some things.Rugby is largely a white sport, with its fanbase in the Afrikaner community. Football (soccer) is […]
Jen Sorensen usually draws “Slowpoke,” a cartoon of political and social commentary that tends towards the cynical and the sarcastic. Who knew she had both a warm and somewhat athletic side?Alan Gardner, for one, whose Daily Cartoonist tipped me to this cartoon-travelogue Jen did for the Oregonian about a recent skiing-and-poking-around trip she took to […]
Okay, yesterday I dumped on strips that do the “hubby forgot” gag. But this Bug is a funny “hubby forgot” gag. And they’re not married. (See Panel Four, above)Anyway, I’ve still got that stupid song stuck in my head. If I can complain about a song I like, I can praise a comic theme […]
Edge City wins big points for not doing the traditional, seemingly mandatory “I bought you candy but then I ate it” strip or the equally ubiquitous, equally tiresome “Hubby forgot the holiday” strip.On the other hand, this is really, really, really an infectious earworm for anyone under 70, since it refers to one of the […]
The editorial pages are awash in cartoons featuring the Sphinx and the pyramids, and references to this or that great revolutionary moment, but this simple John Cole panel sums up the prolonged confrontation and the futility of Mubarak’s resistence. Sometimes, there’s no need to reach for the profound symbols, and often that reach exceeds the […]
Sometimes I like “Between Friends” because it provides a comic insight into women’s lives. Sometimes I like it because it provides a comic critique of women’s lives. Other times, both.Susan obsesses over what she ought to be doing and seems incapable of just letting life unfold. There’s always something missing, and it’s her fault. She […]
This Bizarro made me giggle. I just hope the guy doesn’t suddenly run off with their brushes.
Scott Stantis strikes back at Groupon’s hipper-than-thou Super Bowl commercial, and I’ve got nothing to add but applause.For those who haven’t see the TV spot:
In “Watch Your Head,” Cory Thomas celebrates Black History Month with another in a series of sharply targeted comments.It cracked me up because I’m as guilty as anyone at judging people by their names, though I don’t think it’s entirely a black/white thing. I wrote a piece on naming babies some 20 years ago in […]
Baby Blues scores with a great reversal-of-expectations in the third panel.What’s more, those of us who have lived in the Northeast and upper Midwest are perfectly in tune with the idea of spring sports that will begin practice in March with baseball in the gym or lacrosse in the plowed parking lot, so the gag […]
(Editor’s note: An earlier version of this posting assumed a later kickoff. The wretched excess factor remains intact.)Sometimes it takes a bit of soul-wrenching personal experience to make a cartoonist sensitive to the wrongs of this world.Non Sequitur creator Wiley Miller moved from California to Maine a few years back and seems very happy […]
Damien Glez, who was born in France but makes his home in Burkina Faso, did this cartoon for Amnesty International in Switzerland. I love his style to begin with, and I’ve always had an affection for game board satires, too, which makes this cartoon, with its succession of tiny Damien Glez cartoons, a lot of […]
There’s a substitute teacher at “Big Nate” this week, and not only that, but he’s fresh out of teacher’s college. Game on!Or, as today’s strip suggests, maybe not.Nate leads a life of quiet frustration, though it’s actually never all that quiet. Middle school boys aren’t very good at playing their cards close to their vests. […]
With the best cartoons, you really don’t know where things are going. Arlo & Janis is often a reflection on mortality, but the current arc appears to be heading into a harsher place than even Jimmy Johnson generally ventures.Arlo is painting the garage, and, Monday, Janis was on the phone with their son, Gene, and […]
I like Derf. He’s mean to everybody. I don’t know why there can’t be more commentators who spread the joy around like that.I got into it on-line with a dressing-up-like-a-sea-turtle type the other day, not over sea turtles but over something else where I commented on the story as reported and he became furious with […]