David Horsey risks losing his hipster card by pointing out that Uber is just one more example of the gulf between workers and owners in the current economy, or, in his words, “a model that exemplifies an emerging new economy in which a few people get very rich and everyone else is a freelancer struggling to […]
I’m not really in the mood for politics today, but they seem inescapable, so I’m going to break format and start with this Dogs of C Kennel from yesterday, which made me smile because it shows what Mark Trail could be like if Mark Trail were a humor strip.Yes, turkey buzzards and vultures and some other carrion-eaters […]
In order to honor the Prime Directive, the opening rant will feature a non-cartoon to stand in for a couple I’ve seen that I’m not going to single out. Here’s the thing: When you get paid to do something, you take on a responsibility to know what you’re doing.A cook, for instance, who, asked to prepare […]
A follow-up on the “Childhood Heroes” arc from Betty, starting with a salute for using heroes from the current parent-generation and not from back at the dawn of time.Even Doc would be a hero from my young-adulthood, so, if you have to ask who Doc is when MJ’s name is in the mix, you might be […]
A generation ago, Abbie Hoffman joked that, when he stepped out onto the Moon, Neil Armstrong should have shouted “Drink Coca-Cola!” and retired a very wealthy man.I guess you’d have to explain that to younger people today, and Joe Heller’s cartoon about a Belgian-owned company capitalizing on our corrupted sense of patriotism is an apt, […]
Betty served up an interesting topic yesterday and today’s strip suggests we’re going to play with it a bit.Yesterday’s strip reminded me of a similar moment when I suppose there was spinach around and I said something about Popeye, only to have a granddaughter ask, “Who’s Popeye?”There followed a series of DVDs from Grandpa and, […]
It’s my blog and I can start with the cartoon that spurs a personal memory if I want to. Particularly if it has some vague connection to a more sweeping issue.Edison Lee has been running for Student Council President, and it’s been an entertaining riff on the current presidential campaign, but today’s unleashed an epiphany, […]
I’m with Jeremy on this one, and I’m sympathetic on a couple of levels that may or may not be related.First of all, a lot of kids don’t know baseball because they don’t play baseball.This is only a “When I was a kid …” rant because I’m a very old guy. It’s not just that […]
We’ll lead off the week with a couple of things that should prove interesting, the first of which is that Rina Piccolo is guest-drawing Rhymes With Orange this week.As Constant Readers know, I like Tina’s Groove, but Rina’s one-offs at Six Chix are the main reason I keep that strip in my feed, so I’m looking […]
Sandra Bell Lundy breaks through the moldy Mother’s Day cartoons with this Between Friends salute to non-average moms.Obviously, it helps that she had already created a non-average parental situation which had previously addressed a real-life issue, rather than simply settling into the Mom-Dad-Bud-and-Sis pre-fab cartoon model.My feed is full of strips that offer up gags […]
First, an announcement: Enough time has now passed that it is no longer a coincidence to depict Donald Trump as a butcher who hacked an elephant into pieces. Stop it.Besides, David Horsey appears here too often for my fair-use comfort level, for which reason I wish someone else had made this excellent historic parallel, because I can hardly […]
If you’ve visited here more than, oh, two or three times, you know I have an affection for gallows humor.The gallows, however, need to be somewhat metaphorical, and, as Matt Bors points out here, gags about what a “gift” the current campaign is for cartoonists aren’t particularly funny or insightful.Or original, for that matter. Every clownish […]
The Whole World Is Watching and Matt suggests the whole world’s reaction and how I wish I had some clever riposte.Or could at least, as the song suggests, call the whole thing off.There are also plenty of American cartoons about Trump’s victory, but few of them illuminate anything we couldn’t see before. In fact, nothing even […]
Glenn McCoy isn’t the only cartoonist to play with the Ringling Brothers/GOP concept, but he’s got the most complete take on it, and also gets some cred for speed, though it didn’t take a crystal ball to see the results of last night’s Indiana primary and he didn’t have to wait until the polls closed […]
In the sad-but-not-sad category, Alan Gardner has put his blog, The Daily Cartoonist, on hiatus after 10 years.It’s sad because those of us who love comics have come to count on the place as both a quick shot of insider info, often the first place but certainly the quickest for news of both mainstream and […]