Start with an easy one: Bizarro recreates the best part of my second bachelorhood.I found myself back on the market at 34, which is certainly young enough for a second try, but it was also old enough to have a little perspective on things, and I didn’t go up half so many blind alleys then […]
Response to a post of vintage comics a few days ago made me think about doing that more often. The question became how to select a date, and the answer was to key into some historic anniversary in an interesting year. So, today, we bid a happy birthday to Reinhold Richard Priebus, born on this […]
Deflocked nails my current working situation, because telecommuting does lead to becoming a bit, well, casual.I had to buy a white dress shirt last week and the good news was that I remembered my neck size, but my sleeves were two inches short and so I couldn’t shoot my cuffs like a well-dressed fella should.Fortunately, I […]
(Baby Blues) (Brevity)We’ll start with an off-key Juxtaposition of the Day about which I have very little to say. Kids should learn to play a musical instrument and I suppose a recorder is as good a place to start as any.While it is an easy instrument to play, it is a hard instrument to play […]
I’m back home, but nothing seems funny on four hours sleep, so I’m taking a dispensation to catch up on contemporary politics: For all the sturm und drang over the rise of Trump, the dynamic story is over on the Democratic side, and Steve Sack didn’t need the dialogue to make his point: We’ll learn more tonight, […]
I’m still on the road; we’ll go live again tomorrow. Meanwhile, here are the funnies from this date in 1941. I have to admit, I hadn’t heard of all of them, and I would point out that a lot of these assume that readers were there yesterday and will be back tomorrow. You sure couldn’t write […]
I’m on the road, but wanted to do a collection of what a pair of really good political cartoonists might come up with if there were ever a convention in which a popular, idealistic candidate was facing an establishment favorite and the party was determined to nominate the candidate they wanted, come hell or high water.Let’s […]
Even if you’re not into sports, today’s Tank McNamara raises an interesting issue: NY Giants defensive end Jason Pierre-Paul blew up his hand in a July 4 firecracker accident last summer and the extent of the damage was not clear until ESPN got hold of his medical records. (Apparently, Pierre-Paul was not simply shutting out […]
Wyatt brings a touch of reality to kids’ “What if I were a superhero?” fantasy.There are many ways being a superhero doesn’t work in real life, ranging from the now-iconic moment in the 1978 Superman movie where Clark realizes there aren’t any phone booths anymore to Larry Niven’s classic discussion of his sex life, “Man of Steel, […]
One of the fundamental philosophies here (obviously) is that a good cartoon makes you think beyond the few seconds it takes to read it. Whether or not you actually “laugh out loud,” there’s some element of the piece that you identify with or it doesn’t work at all.Between Friends, for instance: I sometimes envy people […]
Watson’s been on a roll lately, and today offers up a good intro for some themed parenting thoughts.It’s as dangerous to play the “all parents” game as it is to play the “all anybody” game, though comedy relies on stereotypes and assumptions. I’ve offered a quick “well done” to parents of young children as we […]
This isn’t really news, since we passed the headline on from Mike Lynch three weeks ago, but Playboy has stopped buying cartoons, and here is an article that provides the magazine’s point of view.It’s worth the read, but what it comes down to is that, in addition to no longer featuring full nudity, they are […]
There was a standup I have otherwise forgotten except for one bit, in which he took a roll of aluminum foil, tore off a sheet, wadded it up and then put it in his mouth and chewed on it while the audience writhed in horror.Which came to mind as I read today’s Dustin.I leave it […]
The big theme in political cartooning this week has been “inevitability” crossed with a bit of “what have we done?” and Scott Stantis spent the week asking that question in Prickly City. I like that both his liberal and his conservative characters are appalled. First of all, it’s politically accurate: Neither party has a lot to […]
For some reason, the only strips that inspired real rants today threatened to take me places I dare not go. However, there were several that simply made me chuckle, starting with Baby Blues, which reminded me of when our firstborn learned to say “Daddy!” and, as with Wren, shouted it at all sorts of things.Including […]