Rhymes with Orange leads off today with a cartoon based, IMHO, on the joke that “Is this a good time?” is sort of like “How are you?” It’s not an actual question so much as a greeting.The difference being that, if someone says, “How are you?” and you actually answer the question, they’re obligated to […]
Start with the personal one: Carmen is bailing out on her newspaper job over at Prickly City, and it’s clear that Scott Stantis knows the current state of the industry.When I told my boss I was quitting my job at a chain-owned daily, back in 2006, he congratulated me on my escape to a personally-owned […]
South African Brandan Reynolds posted this look at the little teapot, short and stout, before voters tipped it over and poured it out, and Americans might pay attention to what he suggests was brewing in there. The view from another colony was no more cheerful in the run up to the vote, as Kenya’s Victor Ndula […]
Bug Martini has been on a roll lately, and his analysis of the upcoming Rio Olympics put me on the floor.It’s been years since I’ve given a damn about the Olympics. FIFA is more openly corrupt than the IOC, but at least when they stage a World Cup, you get to see the games.If TV […]
Bug Martini brings back memories of working at small newspapers, where IT was provided by outside sources rather than our own people. Not that, as this classic (1998) The Norm noted, your own internal techs couldn’t leave you standing around while they played with your computer.But at least they knew what it was supposed to do […]
Baby Blues is well-poised to touch off a barn-burner — but not a book-burner — of a rant today, which may be more about my day job than this extensive sideline as a comics fan. I’ve worked with kids and reading and writing for nearly a quarter of a century, and the issue of “age appropriate” […]
I think school is out most places now. Both “School’s Out” and “Back to School” cartoons have a problem of timing, since the actual events can vary by about a month depending on location. But they also have a problem of “same old same old,” and Deflocked sidesteps that today with a gag that goes beyond the […]
Chris Britt makes a simple point that I’ve been mulling over.The idea that mass shootings occur so often that we seem to always be mourning one or the other is nothing he came up with alone.Rob Rogers, for instance, offers this commentary on the futility, though using Obama’s repeated calls for action leaves open the […]
Matt Wuerker got caught up in a bit of irrelevantly inaccurate reporting the other day.As a comment or two on his cartoon gleefully pointed out, the weapon used in the Orlando shootings was not, as originally reported, an AR-15. It was a Sig Sauer MCX.Which, as that linked article suggests, raises the important question: “So what?”Another […]
Chan Lowe dropped this cartoon 24 hours before Bernie Sanders made his address to his followers, which was some very good timing.If True Believers could be chilled out by such things, Bernie’s speech would disabuse them of the ideas that (A) he’s going to run a third-party campaign or (B) they should boycott the election […]
Getting off the political merry-go-round for a moment to salute the silly, in which category Soup to Nutz is certainly included.Today’s is a good example of the logical twists this strip delivers, “so dumb it’s smart” exchanges that work particularly well with the cast Rick Stromoski has assembled.It’s hard to do “time bomb humor” in a […]
Start with a bit of news that — thankfully — has nothing to do with Orlando or Muslims or Trump: Microsoft is acquiring LinkedIn for an astonishing amount of money that, as Alex points out, seems to have very little toehold in logic or reality.As for “Many a truth is spoken in jest,” I did […]
After yesterday’s rant about cartoonists who don’t leap into action, Clay Bennett nails one that reminds me that some things are worth waiting for. This doesn’t erase my impatience with a system in which the response is “But I don’t do a national cartoon until Wednesday.” I continue to believe that political cartoonists need to be […]
In recapping D-Day coverage last week, I mentioned that, while afternoon papers had same-day coverage of the invasion, the morning papers, too late to cover the event on their regular schedules, published “Extras” on June 6.I’ve found over the years that, while everyone is familiar with the image of the newsboy shouting “Extra! Extra!” few […]
If Terri Libenson hadn’t just won a Reuben for best newspaper strip, today’s Pajama Diaries would have been a great argument in favor of it.As it is, it certainly confirms the votes of her peers, because Pajama Diaries is a top contender in a niche I wish were less of a niche and more of […]