Spring of 2019 and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell proudly takes on the mantle of the Grim Reaper when Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi uses a prop to show Senate inaction on House bills. “She’s got it right,” McConnell said about Pelosi. “For the first time in my memory, I’m going to agree with […]

“Peanuts,” Schulz once said, “deals in defeat.” At its core, the comic parses existential angst, strip by strip—not Cold War anxiety, a cloud under which “Peanuts” developed and flourished, but the garden-variety anxieties found in everyday life. Charlie Brown is the comic’s everyman, adept at losing one day and still rising the next to see […]

Viacom has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Paws, Inc., the entity that holds all global intellectual property rights to both “Garfield” as well as “U.S. Acres,” another Davis creation, including corresponding rights related to content, consumer products, and location-based experiences. The acquisition is expected to close in the upcoming weeks. Financial terms were […]

Steve Sack lays it out in unmistakable, inarguable terms. The excuses simply don’t stand up to any even half-serious inspection.You can quibble a little over the video game panel, which I’d expand to our vulgar, violent media culture generally. There are some countries that don’t let it in, though a list of those cautious nations […]

95 years ago today Little Orphan Annie by Harold Gray appeared.Earlier this year Annie made a guest appearance in the Dick Tracy comic strip.  45 years ago today Tank McNamara by Jeff Millar and Bill Hinds debuted.A look at the tife and hard limes of Tank.  Tank McNamara today.  Charles Schulz is well-known as a friendly guy, […]

Two of the country’s largest newspaper companies have agreed to combine in the latest media deal driven by the industry’s struggles with a decline of printed editions. GateHouse Media, a chain backed by an investment firm, is buying USA Today owner Gannett Co. for $12.06 a share in cash and stock, or about $1.4 billion. […]

(I’m going to take a day to let the more serious editorial commentary catch up.) I find it most encouraging that Wallace the Brave is of a generation that wears helmets without thinking too hard about it.Helmets came up with the re-emergence of skateboards, so my kids caught some of it, but they had to be […]

 It’s a Wiley Miller weekend in Spokane, Washington. Yesterday the Spokane Spokesman-Review featured a couple pages touting the return of the Non Sequitur comic to the newspaper. Today it continues with the return of the comic strip tp the newspaper’s funny pages.But there’s more.First Wiley apologizes:Remorse is an understatement. I’m gutted by my own poor […]

In the fury of reactions to last night’s outrage, Pia Guerra responds with such quiet eloquence that there’s a temptation to simply run her piece and call it a day.Here we are, and the pickup truck behind her might be that of the murderer, judging from what we see on the bumper and what we […]

The 2019 NFL season is a month away, but preseason is here. And so are the Chicago Bears as the Monsters of the Midway, with a new team and a new comic strip.or, as Stan Lee would put it, The new Monsters: Some of the “villains” they will face this season: Can’t find any direct credits, until that […]

Paul Fell seems to echo my thoughts of the other day when I recalled how Jay Leno torpedoed Bob Dole’s presidential campaign not by satirizing his policy proposals but simply by mocking him as too old for the job.Fell isn’t the only commentator to note the disarray in Democratic ranks, and to suggest that there’s […]

Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood takes place in 1969 and it is filled with meticulously researched and re-created period detail. Leonardo DiCaprio plays television star Rick Dalton, whose western series was once a big hit but whose career has faded. How bad is it for Rick? He’s relegated to doing guest shots on […]

…Then there’s Non Sequitur. It’s typically witty. Often irreverent. Sometimes laugh-out-loud funny. And nearly always a little weird. Or a lot weird. Its creator, Wiley Miller, has never been afraid of using his obscure humor to poke fun at presidents representing both sides of the aisle. But many felt Miller went too far back in […]

Take this quandary from Munroe’s latest book, How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems (Riverhead, Sept.): “How to Move.” On the surface, the problem is simple enough: transporting stuff from one place to another presents no immediately confounding issues, beyond the obvious. “At some point in the move,” Munroe writes, “many people take […]

Thanks, Greg Cravens.It’s always particularly nice when a cartoonist puts one of the things you’ve thought to yourself into graphic form, and even nicer when it’s a wise-ass observation.And even nicer than that when it’s a wise-ass observation you never get to share because it occurs to you when you are, if not alone, at […]