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, […]
One of the fundamental philosophies here (obviously) is that a good cartoon makes you think beyond the few seconds it takes to read it. Whether or not you actually “laugh out loud,” there’s some element of the piece that you identify with or it doesn’t work at all.Between Friends, for instance: I sometimes envy people […]
Watson’s been on a roll lately, and today offers up a good intro for some themed parenting thoughts.It’s as dangerous to play the “all parents” game as it is to play the “all anybody” game, though comedy relies on stereotypes and assumptions. I’ve offered a quick “well done” to parents of young children as we […]
This isn’t really news, since we passed the headline on from Mike Lynch three weeks ago, but Playboy has stopped buying cartoons, and here is an article that provides the magazine’s point of view.It’s worth the read, but what it comes down to is that, in addition to no longer featuring full nudity, they are […]
There was a standup I have otherwise forgotten except for one bit, in which he took a roll of aluminum foil, tore off a sheet, wadded it up and then put it in his mouth and chewed on it while the audience writhed in horror.Which came to mind as I read today’s Dustin.I leave it […]
The big theme in political cartooning this week has been “inevitability” crossed with a bit of “what have we done?” and Scott Stantis spent the week asking that question in Prickly City. I like that both his liberal and his conservative characters are appalled. First of all, it’s politically accurate: Neither party has a lot to […]
For some reason, the only strips that inspired real rants today threatened to take me places I dare not go. However, there were several that simply made me chuckle, starting with Baby Blues, which reminded me of when our firstborn learned to say “Daddy!” and, as with Wren, shouted it at all sorts of things.Including […]
I don’t remember how I stumbled across Fowl Language, but I’ve enjoyed the addition to my daily rotation, even though I see it as a grandparent and not a parent.Or maybe “because.”Brian Gordon has been cartooning long enough that he could be drawing from memory, but, then again, he’s still young enough to be one […]
I’m not sure when crossovers in comics became “a thing,” though likely with the Comic Strip Switcheroo of April Fool’s Day, 1997. But two years earlier, apparently Zippy popped up in Family Circus, inspiring this Tom the Dancing Bug that is today’s Classic at GoComics.Crossovers generally pose the challenge that readers need to be familiar with […]
Today’s Brewster Rockitt touches on a fallacy I work very hard to not try to explain, because it is certainly among the most circuitous and fruitless.Let me explain:It’s a two-parter, with Macro- and Micro- aspects, but they are really one, because we only argue about history and politics to avoid talking about our own personal […]
Nick Anderson responds to Spotlight’s Best Picture win with this dour assessment, and, while there are certainly some political aspects to the commentary, it’s more of a societal observation than a partisan one, so I’m not going to wait until Sunday to talk about it.I haven’t seen the film in question, one disadvantage of semi-rural […]
Several cartoonists took up the topic of this being February 29, with Retail taking the prize for pointing out how utterly insignificant the phenomenon is in the long run. Or even the short.It would be great if Leap Year Day were an actual universal holiday, if we really said “This day doesn’t count!” and everything […]