I can’t be the only person Gary Markstein speaks for.I really want to move back to Colorado, where the states are huge and the media only reaches one of them. Here at the confluence of the White and Connecticut rivers, I would have to expect, at the very least, ads for Vermont and New Hampshire […]
There was always speculation about how much of Cathy was autobiographical, but one thing that was clear was that, as Cathy Guisewhite grew and aged in real life, the cartoon character also went through some transformations.Which brings us to Nemi, who has certainly grown and changed since her heavy-metal self first emerged 13 years ago. […]
The New Adventures of Queen Victoria has a minimalist style, to say the least, and, as a webcomic, a rapid-response capability that print comics should envy.I really like today’s strip, but I suspect that there is a link between the progressives’ penchant for self-criticism and their inability to hold power. Conservative cartoonists never eat their […]
Saturday is often a throw-away day on the comics page. As the day with the lowest circulation, it’s the day where, in a week in which you produced five good gags, you put the sixth strip. However, today there were several good laffs out there, though somehow they all came from a handful of strips […]
For some reason, it seems like I’ve had fewer barrages of offers from cashiers lately for charge cards, affinity cards and to donate to their cause-of-the-month. I’m assuming it’s because they’re tired of being told ‘no,’ and that it isn’t the result of some head office suggestion that they quit badgering the clientele.Such a dim […]
Rhymes with Orange cracks me up on a regular basis, but today’s strip is just wrong.See, the Pillsbury Doughboy is more like a biscuit than a loaf of bread. You don’t slice him. You just take him gently in two hands and then jab your thumbs into his soft little belly, and …
Ben Sargent isn’t the only cartoonist making this point, but I always like his style and I like this particular cartoon. And I do think the issue is critical.I just want the elections to be over so we can go back to beer ads that insult my intelligence instead of political ads which ditto. At […]
Dog Eat Doug has been off on some fantasy excursions lately, which are fun enough to make the strip worth keeping up with, but it came back home today to its roots as a strip about a dog and a baby. And a very good home it is indeed, when simple, appealing art mixes with […]
I was kind of surprised that Columbus Day got so little play in the comics today. Normally, it is cause for a spate of drawings of sardonic Indians making witty New Yorkeresque observations about the new people in the neighborhood.Maybe it’s just as well.But, as today’s Frazz points out, it does put us one-up on […]
By happy circumstance, Mutts was perfectly positioned to take advantage of King Features Syndicate’s decision to mark Breast Cancer Awareness Month by having all their cartoons this Sunday be pink. I love Patrick McDonnell’s Herriman-like artwork, and the fact that he refuses to employ any new technologies, which he discussed in the profile I did […]
There’s been a long and convoluted exchange over at the Daily Cartoonist — producing more heat than light, as these things tend to do — about what a political cartoon ought to be, with the impetus having been a blog posting by Daryl Cagle about how to create the kind of political cartoon that newspaper […]
There was a time when “Sesame Street” was funny and exciting and as much fun for parents as it was for kids. And then, first, they decided that the exciting part made it too hard for the kids to absorb the lessons, so they slowed it down and ditched all the fast-counting sequences with the […]
When I go through the comics each morning, one of the factors I have to consider is, “Will this make sense to someone who hasn’t been following the story?”For instance, Tank McNamara is in the middle of an arc about drunk driving, and, this being Thursday, it seemed pointless to drag people into it now. […]
You can always get a larger version of the strips here by clicking on the image, but today’s xkcd provides a much larger version off its own site, and I think you’ll want to go there and examine this in some detail. It’s always worthwhile to go there for the mouse-over joke that I can’t […]
The Knight Life is on Day Two of what I hope will be a week-long arc about a job fair that doesn’t offer any jobs. Oh, sorry — “job faire.”It’s over a year since I last walked into an office and sat at a desk, and I can’t say I miss it a whole lot, […]