Let’s start at the end: Edge City is in its final week and is having some fun with the concept. I like the idea of actually signing off rather than just stopping, and being up front with readers. I’m sorry the strip is ending, but I’m glad to see them go out with a little class. Voter […]

Scott Stantis offers a chilling look at the conventional wisdom, and it brings up a disturbing idea:If we can’t understand why people believe the nonsense that flies out of Donald Trump’s mouth, does believing the pundits who assure us he can’t win make any more sense?That is, we’ve heard media analysts say that people tend […]

According to my counter, many of you were able to ace Bug Martini’s “Caring About Family” test yesterday. Welcome back.Though, while the demands of the holiday may keep people from making their appointed rounds, if my own experience was at all typical, it didn’t mean putting the phones away entirely, because there was likely a […]

(Norm 4.0)(My Dad)I particularly liked this Norm, because my interest in cartooning came from my dad, who was not a professional cartoonist but did the family card each year. This is one of my favorites and, yes, I was the youngest of three at that stage.The cast became larger over the years. This card marked […]

The Association of American Editorial Cartoonists has issues the following statement supporting editorial cartoonist Ann Telnaes.The Association of American Editorial Cartoonists (AAEC) stands in support with Ann Telnaes and her right to call out presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz for politicizing his daughters in a campaign attack ad. While it would be in bad taste […]

Yesterday was a social (and main stream) media slug fest on editorial cartoonist Ann Telnaes after the Washington Post pulled a cartoon of hers calling out presidential candidate Ted Cruz for using his daughters as props in a political commercial. The main accusation (which ranged from racist to child abuser) was that it was unfair […]

If you missed the announcement the other day, Edge City is shutting down at the end of the year, and part of the wrap is that the guys were approached by a rival who made them a generous offer. The truly fictional part is that the new company agreed not to lay anyone off. If the strip […]

The Washington Post has made an unusual move of pulling a cartoon by their Pulitzer Prize winning editorial cartoonist Ann Telnaes after criticism that the cartoon depictedpresidential candidate Ted Cruz’s children (see cartoon above) as organ grinder’s monkeys. Cruz featured his kids in a campaign commercial (see below) where he read parody book titles such […]

We’ll start with something completely stupid and work our way up.One of the oddities of our political scene is that the conservatives who criticize the climate of “victimization” and attack minorities for complaining over unfair treatment and condemn any demand — even any request — for politeness as “Political Correctness” turn out to be the […]

Tom Tomorrow is out with Part One of his year-end wrap-up comic, of which this is only the top two of a five-tier cake. You should go here to read the rest.He suggests there that the flood of stupidity is getting hard to encapsulate in two 20-panel comics and I agree. Years ago, O Best […]

Bizarro tackles the issue of logical consistency in Genesis, and, on one level, this is a little like criticizing Little Red Riding Hood because a wolf’s forelegs would not fit into a woman’s nightgown sleeves. Folk tales ought not to be held up to that sort of scrutiny.Then again, nobody ever insisted that my biology […]

Mark Trail joins in with the Christmas-themed comics with this piece on sustainable Christmas trees, and the website he plugs does have a lot of good information not only on why real trees are an environmentally sound choice but on what to do with it once you get it home. It’s a better-than-average industry group site.It […]

The number of attempts to tie Star Wars into other topics is … well the number is overwhelming, the attempts themselves, largely under.Fortunately a few people were doing other things:John Branch’s comment on the GOP debate came in after I’d covered that, else it would have been featured then.Clean lines, good caricatures and a simple, […]

You can read this, Watson. No spoilers, except that, as my 14-year-old critic wrote, “Everyone will go see it regardless of whether it’s any good. Happily, it really is good.”In fact, I was struck by the similarities between his review and the one Tom Racine and Lucas Turnbloom did at Tall Tales Radio, both spoiler free. We’ll […]

Tom Racine’s latest Tall Tale Radio podcast episode is now available. Head over to Tall Tale Radio and give it a listen. In this episode: Here’s a spoiler-free review from Lucas Turnbloom and me about “Star Wars, The Force Awakens.”  Enjoy!