We’ll ease into this topic gently, with today’s Loose Parts, wherein Dave Blazek jokes about a phenomenon that, as it happens, was quite real.If you look at the maps of the Rocky Mountain West, you’ll see a difference between, for example, Wyoming, which was settled (to the extent it was) by ranchers, and Colorado, where the […]

So my question, Tank, is where “at the end of the day” came from in the first place?That is, I first heard it on BBC and I’m blaming them because they’ve been undermining our grasp of language for quite awhile now, particularly the prepositions.Things are suddenly “different to” rather than “different from,” and “based off […]

I’m burned out on politics, so I’m going to limit myself to things that simply triggered memories and let you decide if they’re universally funny or not. For instance, Sherman’s Lagoon is starting a new story arc, so you can be pleased that I let you know about that, even though tuning in on a Monday is […]

Mr. Fitz offers the only New Year’s commentary you need, the Rosetta Strip for the past three months and likely for the next four years.We’ve transcended “It is what it is” and are heavily into “It is whatever everybody says it is.”It’s like a “Choose Your Own Adventure” book, only it’s guided by some kind of […]

In selecting a year to commemorate, it occurred to me that it might be appropriate to look back at the year our president-elect was Warren G. Harding, since the poor old fellow is about to lose his place in history as the worst ever.But the year turned out to be far more interesting than that, though […]

I’m leavin’ Castor Oyl up there because I like him and because the blogging site was down this morning, so I had to hit some other deadlines and come back to this later. And that’s pretty much what I looked like, which is why, if you tuned in earlier, that’s who you saw.All better now. And […]

Start with something entirely new to me: India’s sudden announcement of a move to a cashless society, as criticized in this Sajith Kumar panel from Cartoon Movement, which he explains in a note there:In India, the demonetization drive, an ambitious project by the govt to make its economy cashless and digital,has hit the poor and the unprivileged. […]

Derf Backderf has managed to obtain an original of the extra-edition Chicago Sun-Times of November 22, 1963, in which Bill Mauldin’s legendary Lincoln Weeping For The Death Of Kennedy cartoon appeared. It inspired me to dig around and find my source for the way I’ve told the story for … as it turns out … a […]

If you thought 2016 was unpleasant for you, be glad you’re not a parishioner of First Baptist Church, because they’ve just gone from a church that serves the homeless to a homeless church.This was the view from my front yard at about 1:30 last night, and as I write this, I’m parked outside the library […]

Francis provides a final Christmas-themed cartoon for the year and triggers a good memory from back in my Catholic days.Until relatively recent years, you were required to attend the parish in your neighborhood and, since priests are assigned by the bishop rather than recruited by the parishioners, the match wasn’t always ideal, to say the least.There […]

(Mr. Boffo)(Adam@Home)The pairing here is an artistic juxtaposition, “artistic” in the broad sense, not just of the graphics but of the total piece.With Mr. Boffo, the gag works because we see the scene and anticipate a logical conversation before we read the absolutely ridiculous dialogue, which then touches off a response to all the times […]

The Buckets looks at the very deadest week of the year.I mentioned recently how much I hated doing “Year End Wrapups” when I was in the newsroom, but we needed them because nothing happened in the week between Christmas and New Years, and, if it did, you couldn’t find anyone to comment on it because […]

Posting a tad late this morning because my Christmas present was sitting up until nearly midnight watching football with elder son, which postponed getting up in the morning but did suggest a date for this look back at Christmas Cartoons Past. So here is a substantial selection of comics from 1972, his first Christmas.I’m not […]

Very quiet on the cartooning scene this morning — a lot of people getting in their annual holiday greetings. Few of them are particularly groundbreaking, but I did like this Rhymes with Orange acknowledgment of the Hannukah/Christmas synchronization.I also thought Steve Breen did better than others on the topic of social media in general and Twitter specifically. Someone […]

The theme today, O Best Beloved, is blindness, as introduced by Jim Morin.Unless there is a Congressional inquiry into his Russian connections, we’ll never see Trump’s tax returns, learn about his business ties, find out about those Russian deals. And, even if his records were subpoenaed, there’s no guarantee.First of all, he’d claim executive privilege — […]