No politics today. For instance, in this Bizarro (KFS), the judge has gray hair and Aileen Cannon has black hair. Also, Jack Smith hasn’t asked to move the trial out of West Palm Beach.Jack Smith, rather, seems to be relying on the same principle demonstrated by Samuel in this Pros and Cons (KFS).But no politics […]
I sometimes feel that the kids in Baby Blues (AMS) have become a little too consistently bratty, but then I read Carolyn Hax’s advice column in the Washington Post and so realize that, indeed, there are bratty kids who grow up to be bratty adults. Hax is a lot more indulgent about it than I […]
Today’s Zits (KFS) illustrates the problem I have with podcasts. It’s not that they’re a collection of belches and farts, exactly, but they tend to be just about that rigorous in the way they’re set up and planned out.There’s already a certain amount of ego involved in thinking people want to know what’s on your […]
There’s an interesting collision going on between routine Back to School comic strips and political cartoons marking the current teacher shortage crisis, in the midst of which Baby Blues (AMS) offers a funny/not funny piece.I’ve seen this scenario play out both ways, one in which the elder sib was hell on wheels and younger was […]
Wallace the Brave (AMS) takes a sweet but kind of downer look at Father’s Day. Their wistful pessimism is not, however, to be confused with Prickly City (AMS), which takes the occasion to be genuinely unpleasant and divisive.Spud and Amelia don’t hate their fathers. They miss them in their own quite different ways: Spud literally never […]
Let’s start the day by checking our own values. This portrait of Roger Stone isn’t the first time Ann Telnaes has dipped into the slime bucket to depict one of Dear Leader’s dubious allies, nor is it surprising that he found a slipper that fit perfectly.As soon as Stone took the Fifth in front of […]
Baby Blues (KFS) sets the stage today, because we’re going to look beyond the cover, much as we might rather not.BTW, Baby Blues seems, of late, less focused on the humorous oddities of raising a family and more centered on how much Zoey and Hammy hate each other. This doesn’t make for many laughs but […]
I have nothing to comment about over this Pat Byrnes panel, except that, for someone with such a simple style, it’s remarkable how he builds the gag through their respective facial expressions. Someone working in more detail would have a harder time drawing our eyes to that.And well after getting the joke, I look it […]
We’ll start with a somewhat serious issue today and then descend into more trivial matters.Ed Hall is hardly the only person, or even the only cartoonist, to delve into the case of Sha’Carri Richardson, favored for the gold at the upcoming Secret Olympics, but suspended for a month after testing positive for THC, having smoked […]
Dave Granlund posted this, appropriately, on Flag Day, which meant I’d already filed by the time I saw it. But it applies throughout the year, so here it is on Day After Flag Day.There is no law against wearing apparel that looks like the flag, according to the American Legion, as long as it wasn’t […]
Cartoonists at syndicates have editors, but this Baby Blues (KFS) got through without anyone noticing that, if they “all” got to choose one thing, Zoe would have to persuade her classmates to vote to stick Hammy in the time capsule.It should have read “each.” Bill Whitehead had a closely related error in Free Range (Creators), […]
Real Life Adventures (AMS) is more of an “Ain’t it the truth?” strip than a “Fall on the Floor” laugh-a-thon, and here Wise and Aldrich tap into something universal in the pandemic.My own pup, Suzi — seen here at the right in a conference with two of her friends from the park — knows exactly what […]
We’ve talked a lot about how politics have been sneaking over onto the funny pages, but now the funny stuff is sneaking over onto the editorial pages, as witness this K Chronicles (Daily Kos).The punchline particularly put me on the floor since, as I think I’ve mentioned, Trump began his reign with a lie about […]
Editor’s Note: I’m going to begin floating what has been the “Friday Funnies,” which this week falls on Wednesday. I’d like to schedule two set installments a week, but given a seven-day week, it’s impossible to get more than two days separation on both ends and the locker doesn’t always refill that quickly. So you’ll […]
Kevin Siers marks a promising moment: President Trump declared that the Washington Post and CNN had misquoted CDC Director Robert Redfield and called up on him for backup.And Redfield said they had quoted him accurately.Apparently, there are people in the Trump circle who will choose the welfare of the public over loyalty to the president. […]