Mort Walker died yesterday.He was 94 and so was allowed to, but he certainly made the best of the generous slice of time he was given.While he created several strips, including “Hi and Lois,” “Boner’s Ark” and “Sam and Silo,” he will be best remembered for “Beetle Bailey,” which debuted the day after Mort’s 27th […]
No particular theme today, so we’ll kick off with Richard John Marcej’s reflection on his new (finally!) job and the commute thereto.I genuinely don’t understand commuting. I’m okay with getting on a train and doing your morning newspaper routine while you head towards the office, and my uncle had a variant where he would drive […]
Pig doesn’t get it right, but, then, Pig not getting it right is a pillar of Pearls Before Swine, so I won’t take this personally.In real life, the only people who can successfully work from home are workaholics whose compulsions keep them on-task, and I’m not sure that’s as healthy as eating bonbons all day. Working […]
We’ll start with the least significant but most fun piece, Joe Heller’s reminder that next Wednesday in the early early you can catch a Super Blue Blood-Moon Eclipse. He left off the “blood-moon” part because it’s kind of silly: The moon gets coppery red in a total eclipse so that “blood-moon eclipse” is an overly dramatic way […]
(Signe Wilkinson) (Scott Stantis)We’ll start with a juxtaposition over the US Gymnastics scandal, in which the team doctor has been revealed to be a long-term sexual predator who abused the little girls entrusted to him.I was going to say “in case you hadn’t heard,” but you’ve heard or perhaps you don’t want to hear or […]
Several cartoonists were able to get their pens moving in time to pick up on the end of the shutdown, but I particularly like Clay Bennett’s take because of its sweeping, enigmatic tone.He’s treading on dangerous ground, because it’s easy for anyone to take a gratuitous Will Rogers slam at government being useless.In fact, we’ve […]
Tom Falco is letting his print subscription to the Miami Herald run out and will subscribe to the digital edition.He writes:I don’t remember ever not receiving a daily newspaper delivery, even from when I was a child. But the newspaper is not arriving! I’m paying for it but it doesn’t come. We had a problem […]
I sometimes get notes from people who point out that, while the web site is called “Comic Strip of the Day,” I tend to deal with editorial cartoons a lot.So we’ll lead off today with Monty, a comic strip.The joke, of course, is that the elections aren’t rigged and we don’t actually have re-education camps.We […]
Over at L’il Donnie today, Mike Norton despairs of being able to come up with any satire more ridiculous than reality, and I can’t blame him. The Donald is indeed making it hard for political cartoonists. Darrin Bell takes the route of casting doubt on the strangely upbeat report by the White House physician.As I’ve said […]
I felt like we’d had enough politics for a while and so was delighted to find a funny little cartoon about a rat …And, boy, is he right. Trump finally announced his awards for “fake news” and they don’t stand up to much examination, being, for the most part, mistakes the press quickly recognized and for […]
Editorial cartoons are aflutter with responses to the President’s physical, not many to the credit of the profession.The rightwingers are delighted with the news not because it means their President is fit but because it dismays the leftwingers, while the leftwingers are attacking the cognitive test he took.And in the middle are a handful of less […]
Juxtaposition of the Stupid, Part One (Frazz) (Grand Avenue) (Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal)It’s only fair to start by admitting that I have no idea what SMBC is talking about, because, when I took physics back in the Dark Ages, we just had to memorize some formulas about water displacement and things falling down.That was pretty […]
I don’t know why the funny comes in bunches, but it seems to be feast or famine around here and, while yesterday was a holiday, today is a feast day. So we’ll start with Agnes to which I have absolutely nothing to add. One ought not to gild the lily. Looking for Love in All the Wrong […]
Leading off today with Non Sequitur and a bit of a fantasy.Not the Godzilla part. The cutting yourself off from the world part.I’d like to retreat back to the 19th Century, when you worked hard, yes, and I’d have probably died from my appendicitis 30 years ago, but it’s attractive to think of living back […]
(Pajama Diaries)(Sheldon)This juxtaposition amused me before I’d come up with a theme for the day, but it starts us off well.In both cases, the wife is mocked for a fascination the husband can’t grasp, and both are affectionate rather than hostile.The first, by Terri Libenson, works on a self-deprecating “Yeah, I know, but humor me,” […]