Today’s xkcd is not at all funny, which is why it made me laugh.I’ve been through enough media revolutions to see how they fit together. And, if I hadn’t, I could still watch the movie Idiocracy for a look at the results.I worked at a local TV station 30 years ago, when only about half […]
“The Knight Life” is as much a journal as it is a comic strip, and this Sunday’s entry provides yet another insight into the frustration of, not just Keith Knight, but a number of African-American cartoonists.Some time ago, there was a quiet protest in which several black artists used the same gag on the same […]
(This is one of a series of cartoonist profiles I did in 2003 for the Post-Star of Glens Falls NY)When Dana Summers needs to find an idea for a “Bound & Gagged” cartoon, he knows where to look.In the Yellow Pages.”That shows how desperate you can get,” he laughs. But silly as it sounds, […]
Dog Eat Doug is a strip about a young lab and a human baby. That might seem like a limiting premise but, in fact, it’s very open ended, because Sophie and Doug occasionally have extended imaginary adventures, and sometimes they simply behave like a young pup and a baby.Having shared a home with young pups […]
I’m going to take a break today and, instead of posting one cartoon I think is particularly funny, offer 10 cartoons of which I think maybe two have some promise.The Washington Post is in the midst of a contest to choose “America’s Next Great Cartoonist” and, the judges having narrowed 500 entries down to 10, […]
Dave Coverly’s Speed Bump has a type of madness to it that really appeals to me. There’s often just a little moment of “What?” before the laugh that fits perfectly between the gag that is too obvious to be funny and the one that requires too much analysis.
Arlo & Janis often features philosophical ponderings on the transitory nature of life, but it also houses Ludwig, the most realistic cat in comicdom. Today’s strip has some relation to a Far Side in which two dogs are about to be fed and one of them is saying, “Oh boy! Dog food again!” But that […]
At least Cul de Sac’s Miss Bliss, dotty as she might be, has always projected some affection for the kids. What was really strange were the teachers who harangued you all year long and then went soft and squishy on the last day. Were they visited by three spirits the night before school ended?And things […]
Though I’m generally against “zombie strips,” it’s a shame for this one to end, since the current team had done such a good job of revitalizing it. I’ll let a strip that certainly isn’t 86 years old provide guest commentary today.
(This profile of Luann creator Greg Evans is one of a series I did in 2003 for the Post-Star of Glens Falls NY)The comic strip, “Luann,”is 18 years old. The comic strip character, Luann, is not 18 and may never be.Then again, you never know.A few years ago,when Luann and her friends suddenly made the […]
It’s not surprising that South Africa is excited over hosting the World Cup, but the emotional impact of having the Cup there is a bit overwhelming. Today’s Madam & Eve doesn’t even try to make a gag and simply celebrates South Africa’s emergence into the modern community of nations that was particularly visible in its […]
From the first “Could this be Obama’s Katrina?” to the “Now that we’ve told you night after night how bad this is, how bad do you think it is?” polls, I’ve been wondering what people expected the president to do about it, other than tell BP to clean up their mess.Now, thanks to Tim Eagan’s […]
“The Explainers” was (and is) a classic collection by Jules Feiffer that featured multi-panelled cartoons of suburbanites endlessly explaining themselves. There is a fair dose of that in “Between Friends” on a regular basis, except that Sandra Bell-Lundy is much more direct in letting out the hot air in all these explanations.I suspect — which […]
This Loose Parts gag wouldn’t work if the bears were in the water helping him catch fish, or showing him how to do it better. Although there are other internship experiences that could be translated into different gags — like him coming out of the woods with a roll of toilet paper saying, “Okay, I’m […]
My laughter over today’s Cleats may be a more personal reaction than on most days. I just finished an article on “The World’s Largest Swimming Lesson,” which was held last week by waterparks around the world to promote water safety. One of the things I learned was that the vast majority of features at a […]