I’m not big on year-end wrap-ups, which — as noted before — I learned to hate in the newsroom, when we had to compile them in order to fill the pages in the dead space between Christmas and New Years. I also have little interest in reliving the major events of the year gone past, […]
Lola (AMS) starts off a post-Christmas posting with a decidedly non-Christmas gag, since Frosty the Snowman is no more a Christmas carol than is Jingle Bells or Winter Wonderland or the dreaded Susie Snowflake.But on a day otherwise awash in jokes about returning unwanted gifts and misinterpreting the meaning of “Boxing Day,” it seems appropriate […]
(Bizarro — KFS)(Loose Parts — AMS) (Rubes — Creators)I’m not sure how all three of these cartoonists seized upon myrrh this year, but it is the most mysterious of the three gifts of the Magi. We’re all familiar with gold and I think a lot of people recognize frankincense as (mostly) a form of incense, while […]
Martyn Turner protests the lack of peace at this Yuletide, and he’s right that universal peace has not descended upon the Earth, but, then again, he’s given us a lot to unpack and quarrel over.The phrase itself — from Luke 2:14 — is open to a number of translations and interpretations, starting with the King […]
The Barn (Creators) gets today’s Excellent Timing Award for a piece done, no doubt, weeks in advance but that happened to hit just as a substantial portion of the country fell into a Frosty Bombalooza or whatever they’re calling it these days. We used to call them “cold snaps” but perhaps we were being too […]
David Rowe once more takes advantage of the 16-hour time difference between Washington and Sydney to comment on Vlodimir Zelenskyy’s address to Congress while American cartoonists still lie a-bed, and adding a “Merry Christmas” message for the benefit of an unhealthy, angry Vladimir Putin.It likely wouldn’t have done Americans any good to cartoon on into […]
Non Sequitor (AMS) offers a non-controversial chuckle to start a day of myth-busting, because, yes, it would be nice if Parks & Rec also offered scooping this time of year, along with plowing a path.Our normal leash-free zone closes in winter, but we’ve got an alternative area, the driveway to which does get plowed though […]
(Clay Bennett — CTFP) (Pickles — AMS)The problem with last-minute gifts is that, no matter how practical they are, there’s just a sense of so-what to them, more of obligation than of inspiration, and, as Earl’s daughter has realized, they often just get tossed in a drawer, unopened, unused, unwanted.Bennett is quite right: The Jan 6 […]
Watching Twitter twitch has become a favorite sport, and for some a major compulsion, and Bill Bramhall notes Elon Musk’s tenuous grip on reality, priorities and life in general.Bramhall manages to conflate Musk’s mismanagement of Twitter with his neglect of Tesla, as the stock plummets to ever-deeper troughs while the boss is driving Twitter through […]
Sherman’s Lagoon (AMS) on the demise of the Christmas Newsletter. Yesterday, I talked about the fables that passed as history in ancient times, but those dubious paeans to powerful leaders had nothing on the self-congratulatory fiction that once poured forth in the form of Christmas Newsletters. Their chief attraction was how much fun it was […]
Clay Bennett (CTFP) manages, alas, to capture the spirit of Christmas, 2022, though I’d like it just as much without the Trump sign.I don’t disagree: That side of the divide is definitely peddling hostility, no doubt about it.Still, it is Christmastime, and I’m reminded of one of Confucius’s Analects, “I suppose I should give up […]
What the hell were you thinking?Oh, wait. I wasn’t going to ask that. It’s never helpful and it assumes a fact not in evidence.It’s also redundant, considering that the people who — as Adam Zyglis puts it — dumped their college savings, vacation money and retirement nest egg down the crypto rat hole are already […]
(Pearls Before Swine) (Pat Bagley)Pastis and Bagley make an understandable, but fatal error: They assume Elon Musk accidentally lost money on the Twitter deal.I’m sure he wishes it could also have been a profitable venture, but it is becoming increasingly clear that profit was not his motivation, from the absurdly high price he offered, to the […]
I’ve long thought that “This Time It’s Personal” should have been a category in Jumping the Shark, a point at which you knew the writers had given up and the show was over, like the time on ER when Julianna Margulies became a hostage in a store that was being robbed and we were treated […]
Wiley Miller is notably unimpressed with social media, so today’s Non Sequitur (AMS) is no surprise, though for someone who avoids it, he’s sure tapped into the current state of Twitter in particular.As for leaving, no, the voices won’t let you. I’ve compared it in the past to the interactive TV in “Fahrenheit 451,” which […]