This Pat Byrnes panel is funny enough in a New Yorker way — his more usual spot — but the real laugh is that, as noted in the margin, he didn’t sell it to the New Yorker but to the Wall Street Journal.Of course, the gag is that, notwithstanding my talk the other day of […]
She’s baaaack. Or, at least, she’ll be back Monday. Universal Uclick’s John Glynn has been on Facebook teasing the return of Nancy.Nancy went out of production recently with the retirement from the strip of Guy Gilchrist, and there was speculation that the strip would end or possibly go into permanent reruns.However, there will be new […]
Mike Thompson on what should be a minor point, and is, but which illustrates a larger one.Ted Nugent’s sociopathic rants have been all over social media, and, as the cartoon suggests, there is no reason for it.Nugent is, at best, a niche act; he’s barely made the charts in the past 40 years.Only old people […]
To begin with, it didn’t become the biggest story of the week until late in the day on April 4. Prior to that, the Democratic Presidential Race topped the news.This insightful Jules Fieffer cartoon came out a week before a disheartened LBJ went on national TV March 31 to announce a bombing halt and his intention […]
Dave Brown gambles on timing with this cartoon about China’s response to Trump’s trade war. It’s a great cartoon, but Tiangong-1 went harmlessly into the Pacific before the cartoon could get much traction. Such is life, though normally the problem with timing isn’t over flaming space debris but over flaming contradictory tweets.I’ll admit to selfish motivations […]
Bizarro gets lead position the day after April Fool’s Day because the only connection I have to the horror of bulk glitter is that moment, I think now passed, when greeting cards would disgorge a shot of little foil/plastic crap into your lap, which came across as a practical joke.It’s possible that girls thought it […]
It is both Easter and April Fool’s Day, and it was interesting how few cartoonists took advantage of this coincidence, which won’t happen again until 2029. There were a couple of jokes involving fake Easter eggs, but maybe they saw it, as Caulfield does in today’s Frazz, as a combination of one of the most […]
Timing is everything in comedy, but Michael Cavna takes it to a surreal level.Or possibly he doesn’t have an option to set up his cartoons to post at a particular time and had to get this up before he knocked off for the weekend.But I laughed harder today than I would have tomorrow. Though, as Matt […]
Maybe the kind of random nature of Arlo & Janis humor is why it strikes me so often — ping pong balls in a roomful of mousetraps or something — but the cost of rabbit happened to be on my mind the other day.Rabbits are easy to raise, famously prolific and do indeed taste like […]
Big Nate knocked me off my chair this morning. I’m finishing up next week’s issue today and had two movie reviews that were coming in last night, since the press previews were held in the past 36 hours.Both arrived, as promised, at the last minute. One said “Sorry it’s a bit long, this movie had […]
Company Man gets top billing today out of sheer luck and good timing. I haven’t tried Halo Top, but I picked up a bag of Beanitos the other day.Beanitos is a bean-based Cheetos knock-off. I was on the road and just wanted something to eat in the car, and I’ll say this: If I’d picked up […]
Pajama Diaries is one of the strips that I probably feature too often: Either you’ve figured out that you should be reading it on your own or you never will, and if you’ve decided you don’t like it, you’re likely sick of seeing it here. However, Terri Libenson approaches topics that other cartoonists have also […]
Okay, now THAT was a nothingburger!The only real news was the scene in the parking lot, which was more specific than the general rumblings of “I’ve been threatened” but, then again, provided no details. It would have been nice if she’d said she told the receptionist at the fitness center “You won’t believe what just […]
The first order of business on this delightfully non-eventful day — unless you’re reading this after Stormy’s been on 60 Minutes — is to offer belated congrats to Clay Bennett for winning the Overseas Press Club’s Nast Award, which he did several days ago while I was obsessed with other issues.The above is a cartoon […]
Zits Baby Blues Off the Mark Rhymes With OrangeI’ve been frustrated lately that political issues seem so compelling and we are at such a flash point that I have not been balancing my coverage of editorial cartoons with the attention that comic strips deserve.So here are four cartoons from this morning’s funny pages.Apparently, I’m not […]