The Oatmeal speaks for this blog.I’ve been advised from time to time to make CSotD more phone-friendly but haven’t, and I don’t know how well it comes across on phones because the nearest thing I’ve got is an Amazon Fire which is at least medium-sized. And which I generally use as a Kindle anyway.IMHO, artwork that […]

Non Sequitur offers an editorial comment in the main comics section, which upsets a lot of people on general principles: They want to keep politics on the editorial page and reserve the funny pages for funny stuff.Which, granted, the current situation isn’t.But, as Bernie and Phil point out, Trump didn’t stay over in the silly […]

We’ll warm up with some cartoons that made me laff because they reminded me of something else, which is to say YMMV, but, on the other hand, much of humor is based on making a specific thing feel universal.Or something.Anyway, Dog Eat Doug takes me back to a point when I had an extremely headstrong […]

I feel like I pretty much covered this topic yesterday, but Rob Rogers’ cartoon is too good to ignore.Political cartoons that rely on symbols run the risk of being misinterpreted, while cartoons that spell out their intent run the risk of seeming preachy and boring. Rogers combines familiar images with a narrative to avoid either.I did […]

It’s the most earwormy time of the year and I’m with Mamet on this one. And avoiding the stuff on radio isn’t enough: If you go into a store, you’re sure to be there when they break off something relatively pleasant and drop some piece of horrible smarmy glurge on you that will persist until […]

Today’s Barney & Clyde really smacked me upside the head.I first ran into James Wilkinson when I was researching a story about the War of 1812 and one of the primary resources was his reports on the campaigns along the St. Lawrence.  His map of Sacket’s Harbor came in very handy but his observations and […]

So let’s take a simple Bizarro gag too seriously, shall we?It seems that, when it comes to food allergies, there are three categories of people:Group One: Those who have genuine, serious food allergies which they must take seriously.Group Two: Faddists and hypochondriacs who believe they have food allergies but don’t.Group Three: Fakers who use the term […]

Jeff Danziger wins the day, perhaps the month, perhaps more, for knowing and properly applying the metaphor of rats leaving a sinking ship.As noted here before, it’s not that rats will leave a ship that is sinking rather than drowning along with it. Any damn fool would do that.It’s that one of the many odd […]

Phil Hands offers a cartoon I like but hesitated over because it’s so obvious. And then I realized that the fact that it’s obvious is precisely why it should not only be included today but should lead off.Dickens wrote his story not just so that it could become a wildly popular Christmas story but so […]

There are a lot of “Godspeed, John Glenn” cartoons and, while they’re all sufficiently heartfelt, none of them stands apart from the rest. However, the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum has shared this February 2, 1962 panel by Karl Hubenthal, which brings back the hero worship that the Mercury astronauts inspired.I was home from school sick […]

It’s good to see that, while adding some depth to Sally Forth lately, Ces hasn’t completely abandoned Ted’s insanity.I never got up to 144 nights, but I often exceeded 23, because I would sing the song to a very young infant son while trying to get him to sleep.The combination of a tempo to which you […]

For a comic strip that appears to be written by a law firm (Weingarten, Weingarten and Clark), Barney & Clyde has really been on a roll lately.And my mind is more like a sieve in the traditional sense of the phrase, so don’t look for any extended rants today, but I’m keeping this definition and […]

Jeff Danziger scores simply for making me laff. You could put more into this: He and I are of an age to remember when the Cambodian incursion made Americans fear that China would become actively involved in the war. Now I’m seeing presumably younger people brush off Trump’s insult as if China were of no greater consequence […]

There’s suddenly all sorts of hoo-hah about fake news, since some armed screwball went into a for-real pizza parlor looking for a nonsensical pedophile ring.Clay Bennett addresses the overall topic, while Clay Jones goes directly for the specific event.And I don’t think it matters.There is a horrible, tasteless temptation to wish the guy had actually shot […]

Today’s headline is a little bit of nostalgia for those old enough to remember the gurgling sound of a White House sinking in its own lies. I doubt we’ll hear it again, now that, as Non Sequitur notes, we no longer have to worry about objective truth as a factor.The term “village idiot” gets thrown […]