(Bruce Plante) (Darrin Bell)I pondered whether this pair should be a juxtaposition or if I should simply start with one and then add the other in the course of the commentary, but couldn’t settle on an order so here they are.The GOP race has gone from scary to a level of bizarreness that no longer […]
This meme is as good as any “April Fools” cartoon I saw yesterday, and I didn’t see it until this morning, which brings up a pair of interesting topics related to the day.The first, specific to the content, is that the Internet has so trashed reality that having a special day for it is whoa like […]
I heard a story once. As a matter of fact, I’ve heard a lot of stories in my time. They went along with the sound of a tinny piano in the parlor downstairs. ‘Mister, I met a man once when I was only a kid,’ they’d always begin. Pat Bagley cuts to the heart of […]
Greg Cravens provides the best analysis of the Batman v Superman dust-up in today’s Buckets.I have nothing to add except that sometimes “I don’t get it” is an insightful response, and, in this case, we grandpas need to stick together on accounta we’re right.I’ll also add that today was full of comics that I really liked […]
Today’s Bizarro, I regret to inform you, hit me at just the right moment to touch off a prodigious rant.I suppose it makes the most sense to begin with the cartoon at hand and the somewhat Updikean tale of horror the fellow spins. But Updike is the wrong author: Let’s start, instead, with Charles Webb, who […]
It’s not so much that this Dr. Jack and Curtis panel says anything that hasn’t been said, but if nothing else, South Africans have a unique viewpoint in that they live in a nation which is Western in many senses and Third World in others.Americans and those in Western Europe tend to think of places like […]
On the Fastrack offers a pretty compelling simile this morning. I’m not sure how the year 1994 was selected, though I suppose it could be in line with Bud’s purported age; the strip itself launched in 1984, which was about when I got my first computer, a Texas Instruments Pro for which I am not […]
As Easter dawns, it brings an end to my Lenten political cartooning fast. It also brings news that Bernie Sanders swept the three contests last night in Washington, Alaska and Hawaii, but not without a bit of confirmation of this Adam Zyglis cartoon.As Politico put itBernie Sanders swept all three Democratic caucuses Saturday — scoring […]
Start with the one that’s simply here because it made me laugh, as Dog Eat Doug often does.My only commentary is that it scared me a little, since the day Doug talks, the strip’s appeal ends, because it’s based on he and Sophie being at the same level.Doug must never speak, except to Sophie.Beside, in […]
Today’s Non Sequitur really touches off my ADD, starting with — well, starting with a sudden association too Andy Rooneyish to bother with, but then going to something more relevant, the last place I had a major birdfeeding thing going on.The large kitchen window over the sink looked out over the back yard, where there was […]
Patrick Marrin seems to have put a little thought into this Francis strip, since it first ran in National Catholic Reporter Feb 16 and appears on GoComics on this most appropriate day.That initial date likely reflected Pope Francis’s rewriting of the rules surrounding the traditional washing of feet, to put into the record what he had started […]
Frazz is my favorite educational comic: I didn’t know that “boutonnière” is French for the buttonhole you stick your boutonniere in.And that link taught me all sorts of other things I didn’t know, including that jackets not only used to have real buttonholes there (which I did know) but that there was a loop behind […]
(This is a departure from our usual format, but it’s an important topic.) There are a couple of “comics surveys” currently being conducted in major markets, which I know because of the complaints from cartoonists about how unfair, unscientific and invalid these things are, and how they defeat the purpose of gaining readers by catering […]
You’re lucky I’m here: Having spent several years sorting out press releases in the newsroom, I think I can track the swaps that came from King Features’ “Editor’s Dispatch” this morning, which at first glance reminds me of those animated cartoons where Bugs Bunny and an adversary would be running in and out of doors on […]
(Knight Life) (Rhymes with Orange)Since today is “politics day,” I can juxtapose a Sunday strip with a Friday strip in order to make an observation, which is, “Who cares?” and I do not offer that as a rhetorical question. Knight Life is unapologetically autobiographical, with a lighter touch than the K Chronicles or (Th)ink, in which […]