(Sheldon, 2006) (Cleats, 2005)Start with a juxtaposition of strips that kind of had to run when they did because since then, it’s the grandparents who know who the Beatles were. The parents are starting to get a little shaky on the topic.Of course, the good thing is that they waited so long to do the […]

At one paper where I worked, this poster hung over my desk for a few years, and the whole story that followed is annoying and foolish, but a search-and-inquiry about its potential market value did bring me into the world of comics fans and thence here. So that was a good thing.Crossovers were a lot more […]

Here’s a collection of cartoons that, if the artists need some time off, they could simply update and re-issue.Which is a nicer intro than pointing out that we thought it was kinda bad then, but we didn’t listen, and here we are now.In July of 2003, Ann Telnaes, for instance, made a point particularly emphasized […]

When I did a roundup of editorial cartoons from New Year’s 1915 for New Year’s of 2015, I stumbled across a cartoonist named Harry Osborn whose distinctive line really attracted me.I poked around to learn more about him and found very little, in large part due to his sharing a name with a character from […]

I’m on the road for the next week, and this morning began with a very early flight, so last night I put together some old favorites and we’ll see how the updating goes over the next few days. I’ve pulled out some classics in case things get fraught.This Doonesbury was over my desk for years, […]

At Cartoon Movement, German cartoonist Guido Kuehn draws a parallel that is more apt than many who talk about refugees realize.The fact is, Anne Frank is more than a symbol of what can happen to people who don’t flee in time.She is a symbol of what can happen to people who try to flee but are […]

In today’s Nonsequitur, Wiley sends us on a trip down other people’s memory lanes and highlights the difficulty of being a grandfather, or even a parent, in the current age.For centuries, it was easy to tell stories, and you could go ahead and share the memory without having to explain why something that couldn’t happen today was […]

At Comics Reporter, Tom Spurgeon makes a plea to National Cartoonists Society members today to step outside their accustomed pattern and nominate Raina Telgemeier for the Reuben this year. The NCS’ big award, the outstanding cartoonist of the year aka The Reuben, has mostly gone to newspaper strip cartoonists. That makes sense given its provenance […]

There are times when a strip hits it so squarely that I have very little to add, like today’s the Barn. I’ve said in the past that printers were sold as an excuse to sell ink, but it was a joke, because they were still expensive enough that this wasn’t quite true. But I bought a new […]

David Horsey focuses on Trump’s executive order to resume work on the Dakota Access pipeline and, in his essay, suggests that Trump’s war on the environment and on science could and should spark an uprising against his disregard of facts and his war on the truth.I wish Trump’s move had taken me by surprise, but Obama’s executive order […]

Let’s begin with either a tip or a complaint: An increasing number of web sites, for reasons I cannot fathom, heap up a bunch of old material at their top, either on a deep “Showcase” banner or, in the case of Facebook, in the form of a collage of old pics.The result is that you […]

We’ll start today with a vocabulary lesson, ably illustrated by Jim Morin.There has been a lot of negative response to the one-two punch of Sean Spicer blatantly lying to the press and then Kellyanne Conway explaining that he was using “alternative facts,” and we’ll get to that in a minute, but what stunned me was […]

(F Minus)A few warm-ups before we get all heavy.I signed up for something yesterday that required a credit card, my address and a password, and they were picky enough about the password — eight letters or more, you couldn’t have three consecutive digits — that they kept kicking it back for revision.The good news was […]

Sheldon has been kind of sporadic lately as Dave Kellett focuses more on Drive, which I gather has become his bread-and-butter. But he’s just finished a book project there and now has Sheldon creating his own fantasy story.I particularly liked this because it hit just as I was becoming burned out on the middle-school books […]

(Henrique Monteiro, Portugal)I’ve never worked at an amusement park, but somewhere I picked up the fact that it takes about three days before you get thoroughly sick of hearing people say “Here we go!” as the ride starts.And yet “Here we go!” I don’t have much use for metal rollercoasters that simply jerk you around. They’re […]