The family stuck inside is a fairly common comic strip plotline in winter, and the quality of the resulting story arc depends for the most part on how well the cartoonist has established actual individual characters among the cast, as opposed to populating it with bland archetypes. No problem in this case: Sally Forth has […]
I like Jim Morin’s take on the Obama speech in Tucson, not only because I agree with it, but because it leaves a great deal to be discussed, largely based on the president’s facial expression.I looked on YouTube for a clip from “To Sir With Love,” hoping to find something from early in the film, […]
I was going to let this topic go, but Ruben Bolling’s take is simply too compellingly funny. Use of the original art was completely brilliant, and the study questions at the end could only be more hilarious if they were as pointless and tone-deaf as the study questions at the end of most student literature.And […]
Monday, of course, is Martin Luther King Jr. Day, a holiday for school children, government workers and damn near nobody else. Arlo & Janis salutes the half-holiday on which, it is true, people with seniority seem to disappear from otherwise fully-functioning businesses.In the newspaper industry, we didn’t get holidays. For years, there was no paper […]
Clay Jones drew this before the President’s speech last night, in which he more or less made the same point. I liked what Obama had to say, that he called down those who were pointing fingers, but that he didn’t let the haters off the hook, either.And I sat there feeling like I was kind […]
Rina Piccolo has been pursuing this story of failing love over at Tina’s Groove for awhile now, but here’s a punchline that is linked to today’s business page, and I’m not using “today” in any sort of metaphorical sense. A funny gag becomes much funnier when the world pitches in to cooperate, but this […]
There are a number of cartoons about the Tucson shootings, ranging from “weepers,” which serve the important purpose of informing people that death is sad, to those suggesting a direct, specific correlation between the rhetoric and the action, as if the right wing had purposefully delivered a detailed “to do” list into the hands of […]
I don’t think there was ever enough lag time between the announcements of the teams and the playing of the games for a cartoonist to comment on the specific matchups, back when all the games were played in a three-day orgy of college football at New Year’s.Now, Arlo & Janis has the luxury of getting […]
Today’s “Edison Lee” is a good example of why some gags work better on Sunday. The dialog necessary to simply make the joke could be compressed into a daily, but the necessary cuts would seriously undermine the humor. The more expansive Sunday format allows for more give-and-take and a more natural conversation, as well as […]
Yes, African-American James, you should say “oops.” The preferred term is “enslaved person.”Jeff Danziger is only one of many cartoonists who have taken up the topic of a bowdlerized “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,” but he’s done the best job of it I’ve seen so far.As it happens, I wasn’t an English or American Lit major […]
Cul de Sac takes on a new direction of sorts, putting Petey instead of Alice at the center of a story arc. Richard Thompson has created such a full and lively cast of classmates around Alice that Petey’s social life can kind of sneak up on you. I think it’s kind of sneaking up […]
I have no idea how the new House rule is going to work, but I suspect that Chan Lowe has got it about right. I’d love to think that the rule will lead to both a better understanding of the federal government as well as better-drafted bills that are more easily defended.I’d also love to […]
The other day, in discussing how web comics can be as obscure as they want to be, I used the absurd concept of a cartoon for oboeists. Now, patty has commented that, indeed, there is such a comic and provided a link. Not only is there such a comic, but there is a blog roll […]
Today’s Rubes would not be half so funny if the frog were not so deadpan throughout.
“Sheldon” is so often spot-on about literature that Dave Kellett has released a book of strips entirely on the subject. Well, a lot of the strips are about “Lord of the Rings,” but that’s as much literature as “Curious George” or “Moby Dick.”I’m not trying to start out the post with a product-plug, but it […]