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 […]
Never mind Dilbert. Sally Forth knows how the business world functions today and writer Francesco Marciuliano has managed to make the characters in the strip human enough that they behave believably. For the past who-knows-how-long, Sally has been trying to persuade the slackers in her department that the company is facing hard decisions, all their […]
It seems this is the week for cartooning about Annoying Broadcast Practices, and La Cucaracha picks up on a very strange thing, the return of “Dialing for Dollars” without the dollars.Back at the dawn of time, or, at least, in the 1960s and 70s, back when TV stations did more local programming than just the […]
Not sure where Speed Bump’s Dave Coverly lives, but one of the oddities of life in rural America is radio stations and cable services that serve wide, wide areas. That means you can be annoyed by repeated automated Weather Service alerts for places that are nowhere near you. They need an interactive “I know. Stop […]
Only Doonesbury could say “Remember back when you were handling spin for Chairman Mao?” and actually have the reader remember back when Honey was handling spin for Chairman Mao. And, specifically, to have at least a few readers remember back to May 9, 1976, when, in one of Trudeau’s classic strips, she was spinning the […]
(Note: This is one of a series of cartoonist profiles I did in 2003 for the Post-Star of Glens Falls, NY)In an earlier “At the Drawing board,” we called Jerry Scott “the cartoonist who never gets to draw.” That would make his partner, Jim Borgman, “the cartoonist who never gets to write.” Together, they’re the […]
There was a time when, having worked at a couple of restaurants, I thought it might be nice to own one. That lasted about a minute and a half, until I realized that, in order to stay in business, I’d probably need a bar, and, in order to have a bar, I’d have to tend […]
Hilary Price.Rhymes With OrangeI got nothin’ to add.
I’m generally more annoyed than amused by cartoons that reinforce city views of rural life, and particularly those that portray getting out into nature as one of the worst things parents can do to their children. But that’s very different than Cul de Sac’s depiction of urban kids out in the uncharted wilds of […]
Jen Sorensen hits the mark with today’s Slowpoke. Being on Facebook has been interesting. I’ve made new friends and connected with some old ones and come across things I’d have never found on my own. And I’ve learned to “hide” all the posts about stupid and annoying games without hiding the people who post them, […]
Today’s La Cucaracha promotes a for-real website with a for-real, if tongue-in-cheek, offer: Jobs for all those Americans who think illegal aliens are taking the jobs Americans should have.Forty years ago, when Cesar Chavez was organizing the farm workers, I briefly dated a woman who was working with striking lettuce pickers in Colorado’s San Luis […]