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 — […]
David Horsey lays out the mood of the season for, as he notes in his essay, not simply the majority of voters who opposed Trump, but also for a fair number of Republicans who are not going along with the Trump pogram, and you can check back in a year or so to see if I […]
I’m guessing the response older people had to today’s Ziggy was not the one intended.There was a time when we were kids that we were told not to eat snow, though, granted, probably not by the Surgeon General, and this was had nothing to do with eating the yellow snow, either.It was back when we, […]
Pooch Cafe echoes my own cynical take on all those heart-warming specials that not only come up on TV this time of year but are also parts of Very Special Story Arcs in comics.I’ve said enough about my doubts lately on how much all these “redemption” stories actually change anyone, but Jeff Stahler’s “Moderately Confused” made […]
The Oatmeal speaks for this blog.I’ve been advised from time to time to make CSotD more phone-friendly but haven’t, and I don’t know how well it comes across on phones because the nearest thing I’ve got is an Amazon Fire which is at least medium-sized. And which I generally use as a Kindle anyway.IMHO, artwork that […]
Non Sequitur offers an editorial comment in the main comics section, which upsets a lot of people on general principles: They want to keep politics on the editorial page and reserve the funny pages for funny stuff.Which, granted, the current situation isn’t.But, as Bernie and Phil point out, Trump didn’t stay over in the silly […]
We’ll warm up with some cartoons that made me laff because they reminded me of something else, which is to say YMMV, but, on the other hand, much of humor is based on making a specific thing feel universal.Or something.Anyway, Dog Eat Doug takes me back to a point when I had an extremely headstrong […]
I feel like I pretty much covered this topic yesterday, but Rob Rogers’ cartoon is too good to ignore.Political cartoons that rely on symbols run the risk of being misinterpreted, while cartoons that spell out their intent run the risk of seeming preachy and boring. Rogers combines familiar images with a narrative to avoid either.I did […]
It’s the most earwormy time of the year and I’m with Mamet on this one. And avoiding the stuff on radio isn’t enough: If you go into a store, you’re sure to be there when they break off something relatively pleasant and drop some piece of horrible smarmy glurge on you that will persist until […]
Today’s Barney & Clyde really smacked me upside the head.I first ran into James Wilkinson when I was researching a story about the War of 1812 and one of the primary resources was his reports on the campaigns along the St. Lawrence. His map of Sacket’s Harbor came in very handy but his observations and […]
So let’s take a simple Bizarro gag too seriously, shall we?It seems that, when it comes to food allergies, there are three categories of people:Group One: Those who have genuine, serious food allergies which they must take seriously.Group Two: Faddists and hypochondriacs who believe they have food allergies but don’t.Group Three: Fakers who use the term […]
Jeff Danziger wins the day, perhaps the month, perhaps more, for knowing and properly applying the metaphor of rats leaving a sinking ship.As noted here before, it’s not that rats will leave a ship that is sinking rather than drowning along with it. Any damn fool would do that.It’s that one of the many odd […]
Phil Hands offers a cartoon I like but hesitated over because it’s so obvious. And then I realized that the fact that it’s obvious is precisely why it should not only be included today but should lead off.Dickens wrote his story not just so that it could become a wildly popular Christmas story but so […]
There are a lot of “Godspeed, John Glenn” cartoons and, while they’re all sufficiently heartfelt, none of them stands apart from the rest. However, the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum has shared this February 2, 1962 panel by Karl Hubenthal, which brings back the hero worship that the Mercury astronauts inspired.I was home from school sick […]
It’s good to see that, while adding some depth to Sally Forth lately, Ces hasn’t completely abandoned Ted’s insanity.I never got up to 144 nights, but I often exceeded 23, because I would sing the song to a very young infant son while trying to get him to sleep.The combination of a tempo to which you […]