CSotD: Humor on the Offense
I sometimes feel that the kids in Baby Blues (AMS) have become a little too consistently bratty, but then I…
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CSotD: Scheduling Issues
Today’s Zits (KFS) illustrates the problem I have with podcasts. It’s not that they’re a collection of belches and farts,…
CSotD: The Good, and not so good, Old Days
There’s an interesting collision going on between routine Back to School comic strips and political cartoons marking the current teacher…
CSotD: A Day That Shall Live In Infancy
Wallace the Brave (AMS) takes a sweet but kind of downer look at Father’s Day. Their wistful pessimism is…
CSotD: Rubber Checks and Negative Balances
Let’s start the day by checking our own values. This portrait of Roger Stone isn’t the first time Ann Telnaes…
CSotD: Cover stories
Baby Blues (KFS) sets the stage today, because we’re going to look beyond the cover, much as we might rather…
CSotD: Comics that make you say hmm
I have nothing to comment about over this Pat Byrnes panel, except that, for someone with such a simple style,…
CSotD: Quibbles
We’ll start with a somewhat serious issue today and then descend into more trivial matters. Ed Hall is hardly the…
CSotD: Flag Day in the Committee Room
Dave Granlund posted this, appropriately, on Flag Day, which meant I’d already filed by the time I saw it. But…
CSotD: The Editor Weeps
Cartoonists at syndicates have editors, but this Baby Blues (KFS) got through without anyone noticing that, if they “all” got…
CSotD: Sunday in the Park with Suzi
Real Life Adventures (AMS) is more of an “Ain’t it the truth?” strip than a “Fall on the Floor” laugh-a-thon,…
CSotD: Friday Funnies – Undying humor
We’ve talked a lot about how politics have been sneaking over onto the funny pages, but now the funny stuff…
CSotD: Humpday Hilarity
Editor’s Note: I’m going to begin floating what has been the “Friday Funnies,” which this week falls on Wednesday. I’d…
CSotD: Truth, or something very like it
Kevin Siers marks a promising moment: President Trump declared that the Washington Post and CNN had misquoted CDC Director Robert…
CSotD: Friday Funnies Come On A Friday This Week!
It’s been a while since Sir Stewart has made an appearance in Alex, but then it had been a while…