Dark Side of the Horse doesn’t get a lot of exposure here because it’s not fair use to republish a cartoon without commentary, and there’s rarely anything to say except, “This made me laugh,” which doesn’t count as a critique. But it often makes me laugh.My commentary is that the cartoonist is a Finn, and […]
And here I thought it was the first Tuesday after the first Monday of November in a Leap Year. Around this time of year I give a pop quiz to the kids and grandkids asking when does Easter take place every year. Victor Van Acker answers in one panel. In about six months I’ll be […]
Let’s start with something to brighten your day, and how nice that Arctic Circle has, by happenstance, a cartoon to go along with what is essentially more analysis than breaking news.You may recall that, some time ago, Disney announced a deal with Sora, the AI slop-maker, under which fans would be permitted to make short […]
But if your name is Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act, your dreams just got shattered, because there aren’t enough Republicans to get you passed, or even enough to get rid of the filibuster rule and do it with a mere majority. Sing us a song about how a bill becomes toast.Another blow to Dear Leader’s […]
A bit of synchronicity: We were just talking about this at the dog park yesterday. Actually, we were talking about the fact that it’s coyote mating season, and apparently they become aggressive then. But we don’t have coyotes. We’ve got foxes, whose mating season is over now.You know when the foxes are mating because the […]
I get up early by most standards, but even earlier this morning because my bedside clock doesn’t change itself, so when I turned on my computer, I realized I’d rolled out an hour earlier than I had to. No worries: I’ll make it up with a nap later and I didn’t have to wait for […]
Here’s one of my favorite “actuallys,” because modesty is the least of the Invisible Man’s problems, starting with the fact — and I use the word “fact” recognizing that we’re starting a long way from facts to begin with — but starting with the fact that, actually, in order to be invisible, he’d have to […]
Visiting: Alex Hallat at Jason Chatfield’s place; Sandra Bell-Lundy goes Inside the Kingdom with Alex Garcia; Cathy Guisewite stops by Brad Guigar and Dave Kellett’s ComicsLab; plus Jack Kirby at Yancy Street and Will Henry in Snug Harbor.Drawing with Alex and JasonAlex (Arctic Circle) Hallatt and Jason (Ginger Meggs) Chatfield spend an entertaining hour discussing […]
The Fearsome FluffyFrom Wikipedia: Fenrir (Old Norse ‘fen-dweller’) or Fenrisúlfr (Old Norse “Fenrir’s wolf”, often translated “Fenris-wolf”), also referred to as Hróðvitnir (Old Norse “fame-wolf”) and Vánagandr (Old Norse ‘monster of the [River] Ván’), is a monstrous wolf in Norse mythology. In Old Norse texts, Fenrir plays a key role during the events of Ragnarök, […]
This Arctic Circle came the day after we were remarking that the geese seem as off-schedule as everything else this year. We’re in an extreme drought, so the foliage has been disappointing and whether it’s lousy weather or climate change, a lot has not happened on time. But suddenly we’re getting skeins of geese, and […]
Arctic Circle makes a point that has long bedeviled me, because I don’t live on the seaside. I also don’t toss away a lot of plastic, though I realize much that goes into recycling bins winds up not being recycled. Meanwhile, landfills have had liners for quite a while and, however much plastic may leak […]
I would assume that these guys don’t talk much about work at home, but, then again, I don’t know what they would talk about. Maybe they don’t talk at all.I’ve known a number of cops, but that’s different, because they spend most of their day like Reed and Malloy in Adam-12, driving around finding things […]
Might as well start this morning’s collection of funny comics with one that didn’t make me laugh. Harry Bliss often features rural beauty, and this one brought back a memory.I was doing a light Sunday feature about people with side jobs, one of whom was an old guy in Upper Jay whose yard contained racks […]
I’m going to take the risk of Dear Leader making up his mind in the next 24 hours and let the political cartoonists catch up a bit. Meanwhile, Doonesbury reruns are in 2003 and this one makes a point I made yesterday: If we’re going to throw another generation into the Mixmaster, let’s make it […]
As I recall, Tempest had a button you could push that would clear the screen and let you start over, but real life isn’t like Tempest, is it?As he suggests, we may have let things go too long, but we need to at least try. My solution is to try to wring a few laughs […]