Whamond slipped a reality check into Reality Check this past week to remind us that summer is drawing to a close. I don’t mind that, since autumn is my favorite time of year and this past summer was awfully hot anyway.But his timing was extraordinary, because this ran on Friday and just the day before […]
Brave, crazy, whatever. Wallace reminds me that summer vacation involved not just lying in the sunshine looking for shapes in the clouds but also some truly irrational adventures. Not that we didn’t come up with some loony things the rest of the year, but in the dead of winter, we were a bit more confined […]
Webcomicon comes to Ferndale the weekend of August 1st and 2nd! A host of some of the most famous webcomic creators will gather for the 2026 Webcomicon: Creators include Sarah Anderson, Asher Perlman, Dave McElfatrick, Jim Benton, Nick Seluk, Harris Fishman, Dee Parson, Shen, Nicholas Gurewitch, Kim Winder, Thorn Knight, Julia Kaye, Brian Gordon, Jejo […]
In the queue: Biplob Chakroborty, Asher Perlman, Anna Haifisch, Jack Ohman, Alex Hallatt, and Colleen Doran. Biplob Chakroborty‘s 2026 World Cup Cartoons ReviewedBefore the memories fade too much The Daily Star gives us a review of Biplob Chakroborty’s cartoons and caricatures of the 2026 World Cup. As billions around the world followed the drama of […]
Had a medical thing that involved a nerve block that hasn’t worn off, so I’m typing one-handed. That ought to keep my observations pithy. Yes, of course it’s my left that works. And, no, I’m not lefthanded.The dog goes everywhere with me, which makes for more exciting reunions on the rare times she doesn’t. Do […]
Playboy has announced that New Yorker cartoonist Asher Perlman will be their Cartoonist in Residence for their Spring 2026 issue. Playboy noted in their announcement that this is the first edition to only feature a single cartoonist. Asher says he will be providing 10 cartoons. When asked who approached who, Asher says that the magazine […]
Crabgrass is set in an unspecified past and Tahuid Bondia is reading my mind, because I was just thinking of how, when I was a kid, every boy had a jackknife and how unlikely it would be for any kid to have one today. I know I had one at eight, because we spent that […]
Not sure if anyone who’s been divorced is gonna laugh at this one. From that point of view, it’s a situation where they’re in counseling because they agree it’s gone half empty, but while Leroy wants to try to fill it back up, Loretta is no longer interested.Pretty sure that wasn’t the intention.Another funny/not funny, […]
Funny you should mention it, Jen. My friend and I were discussing movies we were supposed to like but didn’t, which included a mashup of Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner and the Lion in Winter called “Guess Who’s Coming to the Crusades,” in which Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine exchange witty suburban repartee some […]
Below are some comic and cartoon books scheduled for September 2025 release (or so). Images and links from a variety of publishers and outlets, though ordering through your local comic shop or independent book store is a good idea. E Is for Edward A Centennial Celebration of the Mischievous Mind of Edward Gorey E Is […]
Hilary Fitzgerald Campbell is a comedian, author and New Yorker cartoonist. Her first memoir Murder Book won the Midwest Publishing awards for best graphic novel. Her second graphic memoir The Joy of Snacking comes out this October. You can follow her on Substack and IG @cartoonsbyhilary. Over at Memoir Land Hilary Fitzgerald Campbell answers a […]
“Have you seen them?”I have an appetite for dumb jokes and Matt Percival offers an excellent example, because people losing their glasses on their foreheads is a very old gag with little potential, while dogs digging up the yard searching for buried bones is ditto, but when you put them together … well, it’s not […]
How better to welcome everyone back from Labor Day than with this Tom Toro panel?I drove 275 miles each way Saturday to visit my mother for her 100th, though her birthday was actually Sunday. As it happened, the 550-mile round-trip wasn’t so bad and I assume most drivers had left on Friday and returned yesterday, […]