Mike Peters could just as easily have used this on the political cartooning side of his work as in Mother Goose and Grimm.But MGG is a better choice,really. This comic is more thoughtful than funny, and, these days, editors — in utter, cloth-eared defiance of the genre — expect political cartoons to be funny. They […]
I’m glad I wrote about “compulsory cartooning” yesterday, because the news that followed a few hours after I posted is an example of an event so large that to not comment on it would seem either callous or clueless. I think I was able to write about the phenomenon more dispassionately without such a stark, […]
I’ve mentioned a couple of times that Christmas sure brings out the hackwork in cartooning.It’s not surprising, really: Compulsory cartooning rarely results in anything very interesting. That is, after all, how we ended up with a kabillion editorial cartoons of a weeping Statue of Liberty on September 12, 2001 and why, on a considerably lesser […]
Andrews McMeel has released another Dilbert collection by Scott Adams’s. “I Can’t Remember If We’re Cheap or Smart (Dilbert Collections)” I admit, I’m not sure what that title means, but regardless, inside the cover is 205 pages of the zany cubicle humor that is Dilbert.The book is a recent release, but the selected strips inside […]
When Scott Stantis posted a link to his latest ChiTrib cartoon on Facebook yesterday, I commented that he needs to save this one for his portfolio. It is a keeper.Yes, I know, I just went all fanboy on him the other day, and here he is again already. But the blog is called “Comic Strip of […]
Clay Bennett on the shift under way in the global economy. I’m not in the least surprised at what is happening. I just wonder if he’s being sarcastic or making a prediction?I guess I’m surprised at how easily it’s all happening. I remember when jobs went from the Northeast to the Southeast because of the […]
Drew Litton is drawing a 24 part comic entitled “Too Many Christmas Cookies”. He’s already at part 7. Ends on Christmas.
From the venerable fake news source: “Taylor and Jim were first spotted canoodling in a SoHo bar last night, and we were able to confirm today that the two are indeed an item,” Gawker contributor Janice Reynolds wrote of the relationship between the nearly 23-year-old singer-songwriter and the 67-year-old syndicated cartoonist, nicknaming the couple “Tayvis.”
Keith Knight gets it. Better than that, he spreads it.Keefe brands himself as a hipster in his cartoons, lightly moving through the social world, observing it with a sly and skeptical eye, partially immersed in trends and partially watching from the sidelines, but he’s also a son, a sibling, a husband, a neighbor, a father, […]
I’m traveling this week for business. Blogging to be light and intermittent through Friday. -Alan
Kevin Kallaugher with a pithy analysis of the discussions thus far. He’s got a point, but I’m not sure where we go with it, mostly because the “Where’s the meat?” questions remain largely at least uncovered if not unanswered.For instance, I’ve heard so many versions of “close the loopholes” and “eliminate deductions” that I’m not […]
I have a couple of other Foxtrot collections on my bookshelf. I’ve always liked Bill Amends work and was sad when it was announced he was dropping the strip to be Sunday only back in 2006. “Jasotron: 2012: A FoxTrot Collection” is a collection of his strips that ran in 2012.
I have very little to say about today’s Pearls Before Swine except that it put me on the floor.Of course, the way to score with readers is to send up a common frustration, and spending a session in Touch-Tone Hell is a common frustration that the development of Voice Prompt Hell has done very little […]
Poor Fox News.First, they lost the election, to the chagrin of their staff and in particular, to the raging, delusional disbelief of Karl Rove, which moment, by the way, was funnier than anything you’re going to see here. And which resulted in the brass sending down instructions to tell Karl, as well as swami Dick […]
A Belgium judge has ruled that the 1920’s comic book Tintin in the Congo is not racist but “gentle and candid humour.” [The Plaintiff] said the book should be banned in Belgium, which has a history of colonial aggression, exploitation and violence in the Congo, because of the number of damaging black stereotypes. He said […]