Between mandatory holiday gags and editorial cartoonists either pointing out that Charles Manson was a bad person or reprising opinions on sexual assault, there’s not a lot of freshness on the comics sites this morning.However, this Real Life Adventures stands out because, while it references shopping, it’s not specific to the flood of Black Friday […]

I had planned to do a look back to Thanksgiving 1967 today, a half century ago, but I would be remiss if I did not help publicize a fundraising effort by the National Cartoonists Society to raise money for hurricane victims, not only because it’s a good cause but because it’s an opportunity for my readers […]

Mr Fitz signals the start of a four-day weekend for the majority of folks. Or five, if the day before a major holiday is a blow-off, and while some offices go into overdrive to make up for the short week, an awful lot are like schools, where you have to show up but you don’t have […]

Here’s a cheesy cartoon I did before I went through the lineup this morning, in anticipation of the flood of cheesy Charlie and the Devil cartoons I suspected would arise.And, sure enough, there were some of those, though there were other commentaries on his death that didn’t use the Hell’s Gates cliche but which still […]

Today’s Big Nate provides a cliffhanger to which every wiseass and class clown can relate.I used to draw/write little fake newspapers full of parody news pieces that weren’t terribly masked in terms of whom I was spearing, and they got passed around a lot.The only blow-back I recall was a story senior year about the […]

I recently shelled out good money for a very disappointing book, but I’m not going to say which one, only that it falls within the category I wish publishers would use for that non-fiction edumacational stuff: “Graphic Lecture.”It’s not like just that particular one was boring.I keep getting fooled into buying “graphic novels” that don’t […]

Steve Sack ignores the command from Central Cartooning to quote Stuart Smalley and, instead, makes a point not so much about Franken’s situation but about the absurdity of being called out for pretending to grope one woman by a guy who was going to sue 16 women — but apparently forgot — for accusing him […]

Mike Luckovich gets top honors today for going beyond the obvious to cover Al Franken’s scandal without ignoring the facts.The massive piling on happens to coincide with my growing disenchantment with social media and does nothing to diminish it, though it is proof of non-partisanship, if not “fairness,” on the part of the media.Way too […]

Mark Anderson offers a good jumping off point today, because he’s right that people want confirmation, not confrontation.That should provoke more of a sad smile than a hearty laugh, but, in any case, it’s a good illustration for a topic in which I will be discussing trends but not breaking the Prime Directive by pointing […]

Today’s Duplex brings back some memories.This is a good example of “kidding on the square,” though, while parasitic credit card companies don’t waste their mailers on people who have a grip on their personal budgets, I doubt they actually target people who pay late.But I’m quite sure they share the news of who signs up […]

Clay Jones nails it.I’m glad he falls where he does on my daily run-through, because I’d seen several “Putin’s Puppet” cartoons, and, while some were quite good, they just didn’t blow my mind.They offered a lot of comforting of the afflicted without doing much to afflict the comfortable, because Trump supporters simply shrug off such […]

Mr. Fitz gave me a bit of a nostalgia jolt, plus (once more) the wish I’d had him for a teacher.When I was in sixth grade, we were all entered in an essay contest for someone or other, for which I wrote a piece about Buddy, the first Seeing Eye Dog.My teacher took me aside […]

 Grand Avenue cites a common complaint, the over-long lead time on major holidays, such that, for instance, Halloween candy appears in the stores before Labor Day.The big one is Christmas because, O Best Beloved, there was once a time when Santa Claus arrived in town as the guest of honor in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day […]

“At least three-quarters of the guys are out to pick up a girl, and get into bed with her. And the sad thing is that that have so little self-respect that they will tell all their ‘frat brothers’ about their real — or, more often, totally fictional — experiences in great detail. Now comes the […]

As Barbie once said, “Math is hard!” and understanding economics is math. But I think Tom Toles breaks down the essentials here in more ways than one.There was, indeed, a point when my taxes could have been done on a postcard: I had no income except from a single employer and no kids at home, […]