When Willie sets the standard for intellectual caution and rigor, we’re all in trouble.Here, he goes against the well-known Forrest Gump Principle, which is that “Life is like a box of chocolates and if you don’t know the code of shapes and squiggles chocolatiers use and are too busy, too proud or just too plain […]

I’m going to start with the heavy lifting and work my way to more fun stuff, and I’m grateful for Jeff Stahler for this one because it helps illustrate something that struck me yesterday.Some panelists and guests on “OMIGOD! THIS JUST IN! WE’RE ALL GONNA DIE!” — or whatever Wolf Blitzer calls his regular daily […]

Pros and Cons puts a spin on the idea of parallel universes, and it’s actually helpful, though I think most people prefer to think of utopian alternatives. I think the first time I encountered this concept — and I’m not calling it a “theory” because I don’t want to confuse fantasy with science — was either […]

Jordanian cartoonist Osama Hajjaj offers this commentary following the bombing of a Sufi mosque in the Sinai this past Friday.The futility of thinking militant terrorism can be confined to one place is part of the tragedy, though it is also part of the solution, given that public resistance to ISIS and similar groups can only […]

Dogs of C Kennel offers a thought in the midst of all the #MeToo controversy, and it’s one that I suspect a lot of cartoonists are pondering.At least male gag cartoonists who seek a laff and can’t claim to be using sexism “ironically,” which can be either a technique or a dodge for editorial cartoonists, depending […]

Between mandatory holiday gags and editorial cartoonists either pointing out that Charles Manson was a bad person or reprising opinions on sexual assault, there’s not a lot of freshness on the comics sites this morning.However, this Real Life Adventures stands out because, while it references shopping, it’s not specific to the flood of Black Friday […]

I had planned to do a look back to Thanksgiving 1967 today, a half century ago, but I would be remiss if I did not help publicize a fundraising effort by the National Cartoonists Society to raise money for hurricane victims, not only because it’s a good cause but because it’s an opportunity for my readers […]

Mr Fitz signals the start of a four-day weekend for the majority of folks. Or five, if the day before a major holiday is a blow-off, and while some offices go into overdrive to make up for the short week, an awful lot are like schools, where you have to show up but you don’t have […]

Here’s a cheesy cartoon I did before I went through the lineup this morning, in anticipation of the flood of cheesy Charlie and the Devil cartoons I suspected would arise.And, sure enough, there were some of those, though there were other commentaries on his death that didn’t use the Hell’s Gates cliche but which still […]

Today’s Big Nate provides a cliffhanger to which every wiseass and class clown can relate.I used to draw/write little fake newspapers full of parody news pieces that weren’t terribly masked in terms of whom I was spearing, and they got passed around a lot.The only blow-back I recall was a story senior year about the […]

I recently shelled out good money for a very disappointing book, but I’m not going to say which one, only that it falls within the category I wish publishers would use for that non-fiction edumacational stuff: “Graphic Lecture.”It’s not like just that particular one was boring.I keep getting fooled into buying “graphic novels” that don’t […]

Steve Sack ignores the command from Central Cartooning to quote Stuart Smalley and, instead, makes a point not so much about Franken’s situation but about the absurdity of being called out for pretending to grope one woman by a guy who was going to sue 16 women — but apparently forgot — for accusing him […]

Mike Luckovich gets top honors today for going beyond the obvious to cover Al Franken’s scandal without ignoring the facts.The massive piling on happens to coincide with my growing disenchantment with social media and does nothing to diminish it, though it is proof of non-partisanship, if not “fairness,” on the part of the media.Way too […]

Mark Anderson offers a good jumping off point today, because he’s right that people want confirmation, not confrontation.That should provoke more of a sad smile than a hearty laugh, but, in any case, it’s a good illustration for a topic in which I will be discussing trends but not breaking the Prime Directive by pointing […]

Today’s Duplex brings back some memories.This is a good example of “kidding on the square,” though, while parasitic credit card companies don’t waste their mailers on people who have a grip on their personal budgets, I doubt they actually target people who pay late.But I’m quite sure they share the news of who signs up […]