Creators of family cartoons always have the question of whether to let characters grow or freeze them at a particular age. Lynn Johnston famously aged her “For Better or For Worse” characters in real time. Charles Schulz let the “Peanuts” gang hit a certain age and freeze, so that Linus and Schroeder began as babies, […]
Seems odd to have Dan Piraro do a cartoon in which a butcher is seen as the good guy, but here’s a Bizarro for everyone who has watched the deleted scenes from a movie and said, “Thank god for editors!”Come to think of it, it’s odd to see any cartoon in which an editor is […]
I don’t pretend to uphold any higher standard here than whatever amuses me on a given day. This Monty hits me about six hours after an 800-mile drive back from a family reunion in Ohio where I got to try some of the beer my younger son has just started brewing recently (his older brother […]
This Jack Ohman classic ran in Editor & Publisher, back in 1992. At that point, we hadn’t quite realized how much damage the new button-down editors and the stocktraders they reported to were going to do to our industry.I miss Lou Grant.
Can’t tell you how many times this Cleats strip from June, 2003, came to mind during World Cup 2010. Nothing more to say. Sometimes, you just nail it. Bill Hinds nailed this one.
This is one of a series of profiles I wrote in 2003 for the Post-Star of Glens Falls, NY It’s good that Rick Kirkman can chuckle about the way ‘Baby Blues” came about, because his partner, Jerry Scott, sets a very large laugh out of it. The two longtime friends had decided to do a comic […]
The great thing about Cul de Sac is Richard Thompson’s ability to remember childhood, not just in terms of what we did, but in terms of how we felt inside. As for this particular strip (which ran October 14, 2007), I popped it off to a few teachers who fell on the floor over it. […]
I saw the sales kit when “The Brilliant Mind of Edison Lee” was first launched in 2006 and it struck me as too political to be funny and too whimsical to make it as an editorial strip. Maybe it struck John Hambrock the same way, because he almost immediately (well, the strip’s only four years […]
Ed Stein is a well-respected veteran of the brutal circulation wars in Denver*, and, if his former home base at the Rocky Mountain News no longer exists, his wit and insight remain unimpaired, to the extent that I’m going to let him run his own commentary on this cartoon:Conservative provocateur Andrew Breitbart did it again, […]
I’ve been following the story of the Ekert in Non Sequitur since it began at the tail end of June, but, since Wiley Miller tends to develop his continuing stories at a leisurely (some might say “thoughtful”) pace, I didn’t know quite when I was going to come across the right episode to post. However, […]
Arlo and Janis is one of my favorite strips, and the old ones hold up darned well. I’m looking forward to this week, though I won’t mind getting back to the current storyline, where that little fellow seems like he’s about to pop the question.Ah, they grow so quickly …
I’m on the road, but here’s a classic from Tom Toles. And I’m not trying to make him feel old or anything, but this cartoon was done 23 years ago, back when he was with the Buffalo News. And it’s still very funny and pointed. Even though there’s nearly a whole n’other generation grown up […]
(This is one of a series of cartoonist profiles I did in 2003 for the Post-Star of Glens Falls, NY)Beetle Bailey has put in far more than his 20 years. So has Mort Walker, but don’t look for either of them to be retiring. “Oh, they try to get” me to, sometimes,” shrugs Walker, whose […]
I’m on the road this weekend, but, in the meantime, here is one of the funniest Madam & Eve’s of all time and one of my favorite comics of all time. The date is a little indistinct — 1997 or 1999 — but, in any case, it wasn’t so far along in post-apartheid South Africa […]
This is not only a funny comic, but the 3,000th Sheldon strip. Dave Kellett has been doing this very literate, very funny web comic since 1999 and has built it up to the point where he makes a living from his work, which is, after all, the material goal of spending all that time at […]