Fowl Language starts off the day with a cartoon I like, even though it’s directed at people like me.I don’t like IMs and I’m certainly not very good at texting and the two factors are not unconnected. If I enjoyed it, I’d do it more often and then I’d be better at it.But I don’t, so […]
(Matt Davies) (Jen Sorensen)Reponse to the Panama Papers has been pretty much all over the place, and this juxtaposition represents what I think is the best reaction so far, threading the needle between expecting the revelations to touch off a firestorm and dismissing it with the Will Rogers’ faux-wisdom of “they all do it.”Neither Davies nor […]
Start with the fun one.I like the idea of schools having kids order books, but, like the mom in today’s Andertoons, I kind of questioned the quality standards in the flyers the kids brought home.Not only were the items offered not always what I considered “books,” (and sticker books weren’t the worst of that), but the […]
Stuart Carlson explains the past week’s coverage.I’m not sure which to be less forgiving of in political commentary: Unthinking vitriol or sheer laziness.The notion that editors stir things up “to sell papers” is nonsense, but the analogy of a rock band is not: It isn’t a matter of how many tickets you sell, it’s a […]
(Speed Bump)(Bizarro)The Juxtaposition of the Day is, placed in this order, a sort of case study over time.A third element is this article that has just surfaced, “Fifty psychological and psychiatric terms to avoid: a list of inaccurate, misleading, misused, ambiguous, and logically confused words and phrases,” which you can tell is serious because it has […]
“Why, yes, they are. That’s why I wear the cape.”Harry Bliss on a crossover between yoga pants and Underoos, to which I just added a punchline that could cost me my Man Card, because one of the things we’re not supposed to let slip is that yoga pants are not pants. They are tights. Shhhh.The […]
It’s a tribute to fear how often You Damn Kid drags me back to my traumatic days of Catholic school, because I only had two years of it, and I barely remember kindergarten, which must mean it was okay, given how permanently first grade is engraved upon my psyche.Most of what I remember about first grade […]
The current election may go down in history as an anomaly to be quoted forevermore, as in “except for 2016.”The other possibility is that it may end up as “beginning in 2016.”Either way, for all the curve balls thus far, Jeff Danziger didn’t need a crystal ball to make this prediction, though, rather than wondering […]
International cartoons tend to be more metaphorical, more “here’s what it is,” while American cartoons are more apt to tell a story, “Here’s what it means.”At the moment, I think the International cartoonists have the edge in commenting on the Panama Papers, an example here being the moral compass of Italian cartoonist Enrico Bertuciolli, which […]
(Piranha Club) (Non Sequitur)Leading off the day, and the week, with a pair of starts to story arcs that could prove fun.If you follow Piranha Club, you probably have a taste for the silly, and there are times when Bud Grace doesn’t even try to hide his own flair for same. This appears to be […]
(Bruce Plante) (Darrin Bell)I pondered whether this pair should be a juxtaposition or if I should simply start with one and then add the other in the course of the commentary, but couldn’t settle on an order so here they are.The GOP race has gone from scary to a level of bizarreness that no longer […]
This meme is as good as any “April Fools” cartoon I saw yesterday, and I didn’t see it until this morning, which brings up a pair of interesting topics related to the day.The first, specific to the content, is that the Internet has so trashed reality that having a special day for it is whoa like […]
I heard a story once. As a matter of fact, I’ve heard a lot of stories in my time. They went along with the sound of a tinny piano in the parlor downstairs. ‘Mister, I met a man once when I was only a kid,’ they’d always begin. Pat Bagley cuts to the heart of […]
Greg Cravens provides the best analysis of the Batman v Superman dust-up in today’s Buckets.I have nothing to add except that sometimes “I don’t get it” is an insightful response, and, in this case, we grandpas need to stick together on accounta we’re right.I’ll also add that today was full of comics that I really liked […]
Today’s Bizarro, I regret to inform you, hit me at just the right moment to touch off a prodigious rant.I suppose it makes the most sense to begin with the cartoon at hand and the somewhat Updikean tale of horror the fellow spins. But Updike is the wrong author: Let’s start, instead, with Charles Webb, who […]