Given the number of people predicting that Donald J. Trump will be remembered as America’s worst president ever, I thought it might be interesting to go back to Inauguration Day 1921 and see how cartoonists welcomed Warren G. Harding to the post, given that he is our current Worst President Ever.And I was right. It […]

We’ll start today’s posting with Francis, because it won’t end as cheerfully or encouragingly.I guess the proportion of people who truly listened in church is about the same as those who truly followed the news, and so here we are.It’s okay to stop helping the poor just as it’s okay to crawl into bed with […]

Report to Readers: Postponing Facebook until after I’ve read my comics is working really well and is now official policy. Avoiding bummers turns out to be a good thing. Who knew? Sometimes generational humor works both ways. Anybody can get a laugh at today’s Pros & Cons, but some of us get a secondary snort of […]

Let’s start with a nice cup of … frustration, courtesy of Between Friends. The empty pot was also in yesterday’s strip, so it may be the start of an arc, but it’s certainly a memory.Anyone who has worked in an office — at least before we started piling up those damned Keurig cups in our […]

We all knew this cartoon was coming, and Ed Hall is first out of the gate.Guys who work by inspiration rather than by deadline, and who post their own cartoons rather than turning them over to some IT person, will always have an advantage in speed and responsiveness, and it’s particularly important when you’re drawing […]

(Argyle Sweater) (Free Range)A little walk down TV Memory Lane with this juxtaposition.These are pretty funny and I like them, but the culture changes so fast these days that it’s hard to make references that will really hit a wide audience.The Flying Nun, for instance, premiered in September, 1967, just as I was heading out […]

Yes, I agree with Soup to Nutz and am continuing my experiment of putting the blog together before I look at Facebook.So far, so good. Though Jeff Stahler got me a little fired up, because the topic of phony “therapy dogs” came up at the park the other day.I’m old enough to remember when people made jokes […]

I’ve got a collection of funny, enjoyable comics to share with you, and then I’m going to bring you right down.Read on. Non Sequitur pushes one of my buttons, which is people moving into formerly-remote areas and then complaining about the wildlife, though I’m thinking more of mountain lions than bears.Most city people who move up […]

In the essay that goes with today’s cartoon, Clay Jones concedes that he’s doing more reporting than satirizing, and I have no problem with that. Sometimes that’s all you need to do.At least that’s what we thought before the election, when we were certain that simply exposing the ridiculous contradictions and outright lies would alert […]

We’ll start today with Steve Sack’s portrait of our next president, in part because I like the smug, self-satisfied expression, and in part because things are such a mess that I don’t really have any logical order in mind.And the reversal of Truman’s motto merges nicely with that smile, because the real motto of the […]

We’re still cleaning up Christmas and New Years at too many strips, but I’m also seeing some arcs starting that could be worth following and strips that are worth a heads up.In the latter case, Judge Parker is interesting because the new writer/artist combo has changed it to a two-panel, real-time feature. I’m beginning to adjust […]

Tom Toles with a commentary on the battle between truth and popularity.It reminds me of “Anything But Love,” a short-lived sitcom that paired Jamie Lee Curtis and Richard Lewis as employees of a weekly magazine where, Lewis’s character suggested, the motto was not “Everything that fits, we print” but “Anything that’s hip, we print.”Which in turn […]

Seems like a clean-up day on the comics pages today: Some people doing “taking down the tree” 12th Night cartoons, others wrapping up the last of the New Year’s Resolutions gags.Candorville departs from that with a rumination on exes or, in this case, nearly-exes.It’s a potentially rich mine to dig in, because, on the one […]

No kidding.If you’re not a Fastrack fan, it would help to know that the characters here are the Computer Bug and Autocorrect, a virtual couple, and I find some comfort in the idea that even the Computer Bug has trouble with websites that won’t settle in.Trying to read an article that keeps leaping up and […]

Mike Lynch posted this 1939 “Right Around Home” Sunday panel on his Facebook page, and then Tom Heintjes of Hogan’s Alley offered a link to that magazine’s extensive and example-filled article on Dudley Fisher’s feature.And, as Heintjes said, the archive attached to that article is “guaranteed to lay waste to whatever you had planned for […]