I didn’t want to be political today. And I wouldn’t have had to, if everyone had obeyed the original directive and done a “Fats Domino at the Pearly Gates” cartoon like they were supposed to.But then — as Nick Anderson so well illustrates — news surfaced that the Democrats had paid someone to do research […]

Mike Marland on a local story that about put me off the road yesterday.Yep, according to NHPR and a few other places, Steve Bannon is coming to the Granite State to raise money for a right-wing group, with the proceeds to “support training and support for local Republican candidates in 2018.”Presumably the ones they manage to […]

Steve Sack steps above the partisan divide that has, almost inexplicably, enveloped the Harvey Weinstein et al controversy to put before us what ought to be a priority, but may be becoming simply a momentary distraction.It’s the et al, which he captures on the page of that newspaper, that should pierce through everything else, because […]

It’s entirely possible that Dave Blazek was inspired by the same thing that made me laugh at today’s Loose Parts: Those sanitary wipes at the grocery store, which keep you from getting bubonic plague from touching a shopping cart.My solution is that, when the cart wranglers get a train of carts together, they should shove […]

You have to be up on Quebec politics to get this Gary Clement cartoon: Quebec has passed a law forbidding people to have their faces covered while receiving public services, which includes things like riding a bus or checking out a library book.The law, its sponsors insist, is not aimed at Muslim women who wear the […]

Kirk Walters comments on the 30th anniversary of the 1987 stock market crash, which, he contends, harshes the buzz created by the Dow going over 23,000.I covered the 1987 crash, but it was only a blip and hardly a warning. A few adjustments to automated trading software and off we went again.The Dow Jones Average […]

A bit of good timing from the Dogs of C-Kennel, given that my own dog has just this week moved from the couch back to the bed. When things warm up in spring, he’ll go back to sleeping solo.Dog Lore: The dog wants to be touching you, in part (apparently) because it allows him to […]

As noted before, I love it when the elements of the Juxtaposition of the Day happen to fall together on my feed, in this case, Mike Peters and Mike Smith over at Comics Kingdom.There are two elements at play here, the overall being the chance of Dear Leader starting a war, which is very much […]

It’s been interesting, over the past few months, to watch the evolution of Rhymes With Orange as it went from the singular brainchild of Hilary Price to a collaboration between her and Rina Piccolo, who closed down Tina’s Groove to make the changeover.The diagram of these two established cartoonists would have a circle for “Ironic […]

Another “Where to start?” day, so we’ll start with Between Friends, where it looks like the story arc of Maeve and Frank is heating up a bit.I have infinite faith in Maeve’s ability to screw up any relationship, mind you, so the suspense is whether she blunders into something awful and only gets out at […]

There are all sorts of Harvey Weinstein cartoons floating around at the moment, but a lot of them miss the point.Or, at least, they miss my point. Oddly enough, my point was served up on a silver platter by happenstance in the form of today’s Vintage Juliet Jones, which originally ran July 21, 1960, when […]

 Candorville not only strikes a personal note, but prompts some consumer information.I’d like to see some kind of action against deceptive use of “pre-qualified,” but action against deceptive marketing went out of favor in the Reagan years. Caveat emptor, baby!Today, as Lemont learns, “pre-qualified” means you have a mailing address.When I got my first credit […]

I’ve known Brian Fies since the turn of the century, before he began unveiling pages of “Mom’s Cancer”at rec.arts.comics.strips for feedback, when he was simply one more poster there, though an amusing and insightful one.As his project evolved from webcomic to book, the group got a good look at how Brian views the intersection of […]

At Between Friends, while Maeve ponders quitting her job to gallivant off with her wealthy boyfriend, her assistant Helen contemplates what would happen to her then, and wonders if it’s time to retire.I’m sympathetic. Having “retired” at the start of my career in order to try being a novelist, I’m now in a position where […]

Start with a curiosity before getting into heavier topics: Francis, in which Brother Leo is a fool in the classic, Christian sense.I liked the Latin mass, both because liturgy should inspire a little awe, and because of its universality. I went to mass in Switzerland in 1965, as the mass was being divided into parts […]