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 […]
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, […]