Today’s Loose Parts didn’t so much crack me up as it sent me back in time, and that’s appropriate at the holidays, though when I go back in time it’s not always for fluffy nostalgia.Sometimes, it’s to point out an outrage, such as this: When did parsley stop being a garnish and become just an […]

Start with a bit of Granite State humor. Stephanie Piro, one of the Six Chix, lives about an hour and a half east of me, and so, while that’s about as far apart laterally as you can get in this not terribly wide state, we’re sort of neighbors.She describes herself as “once a NYer, always […]

Sally Forth starts us off non-politically with a cartoon that brings back memories of, if not harsh suppression, certainly insensitive idiocy. So pardon my descent once more into nostalgia, but back in the day not of junior high as here but of college, we had a rule about vacations: If you missed the last class before […]

Boulet, my favorite French cartoonist, has decided to spend some time amongst us – well, in Los Angeles, which kind of modifies the “us” part — and not only cartooned about it yesterday, as seen here, but already has a new one up.I hope he’s not just toying with us. (This is a snippet — go read […]

I’m going to have to keep the comments brief, because my self-imposed 1,000 word limit won’t get me through everything that cracked me up or made me think this morning. Fill in the conceptual gaps in my prose as needed; not much of it will be. Imago iocosus ipsa loquiturI decided to lead off with the […]

We’ll let Kirk Walters start the conversation with a joke, and I not only laughed because it’s funny but because I had been tossing a similar gag around in my head.In my version, New Orleans Saints protest the results of their game against the Broncos on the basis that there shouldn’t be a rule allowing […]

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal touches on one of my most despised “clever comments” on social media, and puts it into very sharp focus.There are any number of memes floating around about how people have never used algebra, and they’ll flourish again, now that the election is over.It’s annoyingly stupid on one level, but, on another, […]

The Buckets raises an issue I’ve pondered for years, which perhaps is why I’ve thought it through even more than she has.Yes, the Invisible Man would be blind.But, worse, he wouldn’t be invisible, either, unless he went on a substantial fast and then had some extremely effective, pre-colonscopy-level clean-outs. Worst superpower ever.I know,  I know: I’m […]

Between Friends offers something of a surprise in cartoon families: A healthy mother/daughter relationship, and I’m looking forward to seeing how Susan’s trip to visit her daughter at college plays out.It feels strange to praise a cartoon for what it is not, but my job would be easier (and cartoonists jobs harder) if they didn’t […]

I find myself with a lot, and yet nothing, to say, so I’m going to send you off to places like the Nib, where 10 cartoonists vent their feelings about the election, not all of which I agree with. I like Luke Howard’s take, I suspect, because he matches my ambivalence: On the one hand, […]

I really want to avoid the obvious topic, and Baby Blues made me smile because backyard chickens are becoming a suburban fad and, yeah, if you only have half a dozen and you weren’t raised to look upon them as developing into food, well, they won’t.In an earlier time — like, when “Charlotte’s Web” was […]

I’ve always liked this classic Ron Cobb cartoon, which dates back to the Sixties.I don’t suppose you could do a modern version, since it would be hard to indicate that he was holding a smashed phone, trying to get a signal, looking for a place to recharge it, and still show the stunned look on his […]

I’ll be off to vote as soon as I finish up here, and I hope you vote, too, but I’ve had enough of the talk. If you haven’t made up your mind by now you may not have a mind to make up, so what’s the point?And as the Dogs of C-Kennel note, it’s been […]

(Edison Lee) (Kevin Kallaugher)An odd Juxtaposition, but these are odd times, at least in the United States.I share some of Edison’s father’s laid-back attitude at this stage, because I’ve been here before, sort of.It often drove me crazy during the campaign, mostly on specific topics that younger people were interpreting in ways that suggested they […]

Since reviews often include disclaimers, like admitting that the book was provided for free, in order to establish the reviewer’s neutrality and objectivity, let me start with a sort of opposite “claimer:”I bought this book and anticipated liking it and probably — if only in deference to the Prime Directive — would have maintained silence had I […]