Nancy Beiman gave us a three week notice of the annual “holy day.” The others mostly waited until today. Today comic strips transition from World Press Freedom Day (not mentioned at all) and National Star Wars Day (many references yesterday) to National Cartoonist Day/Cinco de Mayo. Or Inko de Mayo.Lalo Alcaraz and Chip Sansom weren’t […]
While it’s a lazy Sunday for some of us (I ain’t Christmas shopping yet) it is a pretty busy Bizarro panel. We are accustomed to busy Bizarro Sunday panels and occasionally multipanel Sunday Bizarros, but this Sunday we are gifted with the exceedingly rare sequential Bizarro comic strip.Added bonus is the substantial, and not so […]
We have had a couple Advance Locals (MLive Media and The Post-Standard) inform us of their coming revisions to the comics pages with Jim Glick, Director of Enterprise Content & Design for Print at Advance Local, giving further details in comments at both items linked above.Now The Cleveland Plain Dealer/cleveland.com has given their readers a […]
Zits taps the increasingly ridiculous world of “therapy animals.”I’m so old I can remember when, on an email listserv, the quite serious topic of safely transporting dogs on airplanes came up, and someone jokingly suggested donning dark glasses and pretending your pet was a Seeing Eye Dog so he could ride in the cabin.The response […]
Yes, I agree with Soup to Nutz and am continuing my experiment of putting the blog together before I look at Facebook.So far, so good. Though Jeff Stahler got me a little fired up, because the topic of phony “therapy dogs” came up at the park the other day.I’m old enough to remember when people made jokes […]
One of the strengths of Pros and Cons is that, by combining a cop, a lawyer, a psychologist and a cafe owner, Kieran Meehan offers himself a cast with the diversity to make a lot of gags work well.Because it’s such a small cast — the four majors and a very small number of recurring extras […]
Oh, good. I was hoping for a good Mother’s Day strip and Jeff Corriveau came through with a Deflocked that emphasizes yesterday’s point about character-driven comedy.Corriveau throws a lot of mud at the wall and it doesn’t all stick, but, when it does, it’s fabulous stuff.It’s hard to preserve the freshness of the Acerbic Animal, […]
If God were a computer, undoubtedly, He’d blow up the world, because that would be the “answer.” — Phil OchsWell, God isn’t a computer and so there are other, more nuanced and compassionate answers to the problems of the world, but, so far, as Rob Rogers suggests, the most promising pontiff since John XXIII is […]