Let’s start with some highlights. Hard pressed to a better comic strip than Thursday’s Bok versus The Snowbeast’s battle in Flash Gordon Thursday making the jump from overture to aftermath. Absolutely wonderful was the “Bok draws the warm pelt tight around his shoulders” caption.Possibly only bettered by Rose’s authoritarian statement in Wednesday’s Wallace the Brave. […]
With cartoonists Carol Lay, Ali Fitzgerald, Andrea Beizer, Bill Bettwy, Colleen Doran, G. B. Trudeau, Paul and Brad Anderson, Jeff and Bil Keane, Larry Lieber, and Gilbert Shelton and Ted Richards (with Willy Murphy and Gary Hallgren).Reading Room: Comics For Earth In 1952 the lead character in cartoonist Walt Kelly’s popular “Pogo” comic strip found […]
The blog’s 10th anniversary is Thursday, but we’ll celebrate it today because cartoonists often use Sunday to mark something in the coming week and also because I have nothing more to say at the moment about impeachment or coronavirus.So there is the first Comic Strip of the Day entry, back when it truly was one […]
Stephen Collins on the perils of shopping in a strange supermarket, and thoughts on that topic could be a book, and an interesting one.I had the great good fortune to be a biz writer in a small city when a fourth grocery chain came in, and they were not only willing to talk to the […]
I’ll admit I haven’t been following TV coverage of the Oregon standoff, but between Jen Sorensen’s take and Ann Telnaes’s animation and a few lesser commentaries, I gather the media confusion I cited yesterday has not cleared up appreciably.I have noticed that disjointed reporting continues in on-line sources and, meanwhile, the false equivalencies continue to flourish […]
Bizarro tackles the issue of logical consistency in Genesis, and, on one level, this is a little like criticizing Little Red Riding Hood because a wolf’s forelegs would not fit into a woman’s nightgown sleeves. Folk tales ought not to be held up to that sort of scrutiny.Then again, nobody ever insisted that my biology […]
Steve Benson offers this depiction of the Supreme Court ruling in Abramski v. United States, in which the Court ruled against so-called “straw purchasers” or people who purchase guns on behalf of others.Despite the straw man’s argument, the Court did not grant an exception for bogus purchases made on behalf of sweet, innocent little Dorothy, ruling […]
This cartoon by Raul Fernando Zuleta pleases me for a variety of reasons beyond its overall sardonic brilliance.The first is the simple one, which is tying it into the idiotic notion by Facebook people that if a particular sick/crippled/disabled/dying child gets a number of “likes,” some cosmic event will occur. But that’s just foolishness 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 […]
I just made up that word, a portmanteau of “leavening” and “levity,” both of which I’m in the mood for this morning. And then I took the “A” from “leavening” so it could also include Sam Levenson, a Borscht Belt comedian who, checking Google, is a lot more obscure than he deserves to be.Levenson had […]
In today’s Candorville, Lemont addresses the matter of “executive orders” with a pretty reasonable explanation: Facing a hostile, do-nothing Congress, maybe Obama is forced to issue more executive orders than other presidents.I like the explanation and I think it’s something conservatives should consider.Because they’re not likely to be swayed by someone pointing out that, in […]
Drew Sheneman with a worthwhile comment on the meat scandal.He’s got a point, of course, and one branch of the vegan movement has to do with the moral/emotional implications of eating animals. Sentimental stories of 4H projects and Wilbur the Pig aside, farm children have for centuries come of age by learning to differentiate between […]
It’s the tiny doll shoes. There are more tiny doll shoes than tiny doll feet, and they breed under sofas and in register grates and the back corners of closets. Tiny doll shoes are the larval stage of pods.At least they were when I was a kid. I, too, was a big brother.But when I […]