Kal cuts through to the core yet again.He uses a complex, multipanel approach here to mock the incoherence and inconsistency of GOP attacks with a clarity others have failed to achieve. And he’s funny without cracking any actual jokes beyond the overall conceit, which, combined with the right art, is very funny indeed.Maybe it’s because […]
It’s hardly surprising when two or more political cartoonists come up with the same metaphor. Lord knows, Ted Cruz’s last name brought forth plenty of the same puns and I used the term “brought forth” because “inspired” seems inappropriate.But when a couple of strip writers happen onto the same general concept at random, it can […]
(EDITOR’S NOTE: The editorial-cartooning wing of comics is temporarily out of service due to half of the commentary being 9/11 Hallmark cards and the other half evenly divided between those that are woefully outdated and irrelevant due to the Russian proposal and those consisting of laments, partisan gainsaying and outright tantrums from cartoonists pissed that […]
Some days, you’re just in the mood for thoughtful silliness, like Deflocked. And I don’t mean “thoughtful” in the sense of “absolutely new gags,” much less in the sense of “gags you need to really think about before you get them.” First of all, there aren’t a lot of new gags, at least not since […]
Agnes provides a salute to ADD and the Internet. I’m in no academic peril, but I might be in danger of a visit from the health department, because every time I resolve to finally get this place cleaned up, I see something on the web and disappear into the Black Hole of Cool Stuff.Back in […]
One of the odder synchronicities I’ve come across. From the top: The parents in Edge City were scheduled to fly off on vacation, but got a call to pick up their son from camp because he has head lice. Maybe he got them from Hammy in Baby Blues. And Agnes can’t afford to go to summer camp […]
So let’s extend the discussion of niche-y inside humor from Saturday’s posting with today’s Heart of the City.I’m not a huge movie fan, and certainly not enough of one to know all the directors. I know the ones who genuinely become brands, so a gag like this PBS from 2003 is not lost on me […]
Daryl Cagle, he of the political cartoon aggregation site, uses the term “Yahtzee” for the times when multiple cartoonists simultaneously come up with the same idea. Or, if it is a weeping Statue of Liberty in the wake of tragedy, the same non-idea.And it is indeed rare that a true Yahtzee — five of a kind, […]
I’ve now seen 61 New Years and, if I were a month older, this would have been #62.The thrill is gone. Both because they really do speed up — 1/60th goes by pretty fast — and because, as Derf notes, 2012 was nothing to build a monument to. On the other hand, Derf himself had a […]
There are all sorts of people out there doing comic riffs on Christmas standards. Some are pretty funny, some are pretty, well … familiar. To impress me, though, you’ve got to be demented, and that’s where our girl Agnes steps in, with a Christmas story that is destined to be a classic. Or maybe not. But […]
This was a really good day for comics, starting with the latest installment of a Doonesbury arc about Walden College becoming a for-profit school. The fact that there already is a for-profit Walden University is, well, something for someone else to sort out, because Trudeau had the name first, though, granted, not by much.But I like the idea of for-profit […]
For any strips with families, and certainly for any that feature kids in starring roles, back-to-school cartoons are one of those tiresome annual required arcs, most of which can be safely ignored, except that then you’d miss a headspinner like today’s Agnes.Much of what makes this work is that it uses the concept of back-to-school […]
Matt Wuerker touches on the Fast-and-Furious scandal, but I have to say the real problem is not gullible gunowners, the profusion of firearms or a vast rightwing conspiracy — though it would be helpful if people were less gullible and if the rightwing conspiracy were, indeed, a myth.The real threat is a conspiracy of stupidity. […]
There were — among the “I bought you some candy for me to eat” cartoons and the “Omigod I forgot Valentine’s Day” cartoons — some pretty good Valentine’s Day comics this year.But Agnes, as is her wont, cut through the sentiment and got right to the quick.Mind you, much of the charm of Agnes is […]
Not sure where this story arc in Agnes is going, except that Agnes is one of those strips that, when it suddenly heads off somewhere unexpected, you jump in and hang on, because you know it won’t be a waste of your attention.I do know that Agnes and her grandmother are headed off to visit […]