News update: Friend-of-the-Blog Brian Fies has lost his home in the California wildfires, as did Jeannie Schulz, though the Peanuts museum is reportedly okay. Everyone is safe, but a lot of memories lost. Pearls Before Swine cartoonist Stephan Pastis reported last night that he does not know the fate of his home in Santa Rosa, […]
Having done a lot of talk in the past couple of days, I’m correcting the average with a look back a half century at Oct 9, 1967.There were several strips I had forgotten, but also several I’d never seen before.Here’s a heaping helping of 10/09/67, with minimal commentary: (A little commentary here — We didn’t know […]
Just as I was discussing the inability of editors to either judge cartoons or find someone on their staff who can, a stunning example comes to the fore.The editorial page editor of the Jacksonville Florida Times-Union has begun putting pretty pictures on his Sunday editorial page in place of editorial cartoons.He explained the decision Sept […]
No major theme today, but some things I’ve wanted to share … Rex Morgan is, for the moment, leaving the Morgan family to sort out adding another toddler to the brood in order to focus on cartoon forgery. About a year ago, the Morgans moved into a new house and discovered a cache of old comics […]
Mr. Boffo stopped me in my tracks this morning.At first, I thought it meant his parents had somehow switched him to something G-rated, but then it hit me and knocked me over.Joe Martin is not often this heavy, but he sure kicked out the jams today.I’m not sure when the Andy Griffith Show lost focus, […]
(Frazz)(Warped)I often kind of pray each morning for some funny stuff that’s more compelling than the political stuff. There are times it’s like pulling for a horse who was way in the back of the pack on the backstretch, but I’m old enough to remember Silky Sullivan, so wotthehell.Perhaps I should have said “wotthe#@*&” because […]
As frequent visitors know, I particularly like Juxtapositions when they happen to fall one after the other on the page. Such was the case this morning with Pros & Cons and Piranha Club.What I liked even more, in an admittedly dark way, is that 48 hours ago, they wouldn’t have seemed like a juxtaposition, in […]
Several cartoonists posted work from the past on Facebook and Twitter yesterday, and I began collecting it on the assumption that few would move quickly to address the Vegas shootings.In fact, quite a few did, but I’m leading with this John Cole 2015 piece because it’s an excellent summary of a common thread, and it’s […]
Today’s Monty got a particular laff because I was checking out a guy’s rug on TV yesterday and wondering why he would wear such a ridiculous hat, particularly since, as a guy rich enough to be on television regularly, he could probably afford a toop that looked like perhaps his own hair.I mean, I wouldn’t […]
Our theme today, to the extent that we have one, will be about people whose company you didn’t want anyway, and what better lead off than dear little Agnes trying to be a social success?And dear little Trout, ever the Greek chorus of uncomfortable truth.Agnes and Trout are part of a tradition of madcap girls, […]
If we can’t run our own country competently, we can at least provide amusement for the rest of the planet, and Zapiro provides a handy guide for his fellow Africans to their new neighbor, Nambia. And, by the way, if you want to go visit beautiful Nambia, you can refuel your plane in Puerto Rico, because […]
Tjeerd Royaards offers this thoughtful take on one of the more interesting stories of the week, the reversal of Saudi Arabia’s ban on women drivers.Saudi Arabia was the only country in the world that didn’t allow women to drive, but Royaards nails the fact that the change is only incremental.The turn signal is a bit […]
Hugh Hefner has died, leaving behind a very mixed and difficult heritage, well covered here and so I’m not going to get too deeply into it, except that he set the standard for James Bond: Polite, educated, suave and considerate, but then exploitive and superficial. And a terrific market for cartoonists.Not Bond; Hefner. The best description of […]
While we wait for the rest of the Take A Knee cartoons to drift in, here’s today’s Prickly City, which is less entertaining for the particular strip itself as it is for the look inside the mind of a thoughtful conservative.”Thoughtful Conservative” sounds like an oxymoron but is more of an endangered minority. Granted, if […]
Today’s offering really is just one huge Juxtaposition, and I had trouble knowing where to start. Ann Telnaes won the lead position for best setting the overall mood without arguing a specific point.That sounds like damning with faint praise, but it takes a safecracker’s touch to make a statement this piercing without getting distracted by […]