Dog-walking in the city is different than dog-walking in the country. Our dog walkers pile their gang into the back of the car and take them out to a trail somewhere. It means they have to keep their numbers down, because four or five dogs running loose is enough keep track of, but the dogs […]
Let’s start things off with the Serendipity Award, as Rhymes With Orange drops this gag smack in the middle of a massive heat wave at least for those of us in the Northeast, which includes RWOHQ in Massachusetts.I suspect that, if you had a wax museum without AC, you could set up a pretty impressive […]
When I can do a mix, I usually start with the funny stuff and then do politics, but somehow they’re becoming indistinguishable. Clay Jones has a most excellent rant to go with this cartoon, which is basically that Trump would rather talk to Fox & Friends than Mueller, but he can destroy himself in either […]
I felt like we’d had enough politics for a while and so was delighted to find a funny little cartoon about a rat …And, boy, is he right. Trump finally announced his awards for “fake news” and they don’t stand up to much examination, being, for the most part, mistakes the press quickly recognized and for […]
Sally Forth is hardly the only comic strip riffing on middle-aged people trying to stay up for New Year’s, but it may be the only one riffing on the pointlessness of even bothering. The last time I made midnight I was in my 50s and it was only by happenstance: I’d been working on something and […]
Let’s ease into the day with a Nick Anderson cartoon pointing out something we all knew: The man is a pathological liar.Permit me to elaborate:There are people like OJ Simpson or Jeff MacDonald who, under the severe stress of horror, respond by creating an alternative reality. That’s lying in the sense of telling a story […]
Betty has been touring Italy for the past month and a half, longer if you include all their preparation for the trip, but today there is a pause in the travelogue for a shot at the volks back home.Even on holiday on the other side of the globe and more than 2,000 years in the […]
(Frazz)(Warped)I often kind of pray each morning for some funny stuff that’s more compelling than the political stuff. There are times it’s like pulling for a horse who was way in the back of the pack on the backstretch, but I’m old enough to remember Silky Sullivan, so wotthehell.Perhaps I should have said “wotthe#@*&” because […]
Tried to take a break from politics today. Fat chance.I’ve seen a couple of strip cartoonists post remarks about how it’s getting hard to just make funny drawings when everything is on fire, and even this cheesy pun at Bizarro has a political base.The problem is, how do you make jokes about ordinary, day-to-day life […]
The first, which applies to a couple of people, is that I suspect some cartoonists have switched from pen-and-ink to tablets.Actually, I know that several have made the switch, but what I have come to suspect recently is that some have done so perhaps on cheaper tablets or … I dunno … don’t have the […]
One of the constant annoyances in newsrooms are the phone calls from people demanding coverage for National Asparagus Month and other similar events. Our city editor at one paper had a list of all these ridiculous non-holidays and it was pretty funny reading, but not so funny when you were trying to placate an angry citizen […]
Amid a host of responses to The Grand Presidential Pivot, Jimmy Margulies focuses on the question I’m asking: Where is the love you said was mine, all mine, ’til the end of time?Talk about buyer’s remorse! Poor Vovochka must surely be awakening to that “you knew I was a snake when you picked me up” […]
Betty puts a thoughtful spin on the usual men-and-housework cliche. Cartoonists have moved away, for the most part, from endlessly bashing women for overdrawing their checking accounts and smashing up their cars, with only a few old dinosaurs hanging on to those condescending gags.But the incompetent, uncooperative hubby remains at the center of a lot of […]
Off the Mark sets us up for a day of thought-free giggling, and Mark Parisi gets particularly high marks for timing this to hit as our Facebook pages are clogging up with “look what I ate” postings.If this weren’t a day I intend to devote entirely to laffs, I’d add a link to this, and […]
I pity editorial cartoonists today because there is really so little to be said at the moment that will shed any new light on our situation. Every idea is obvious and how many variations on sexually assaulting the Statue of Liberty do we need? Thus it is that the most telling cartoon of the day is […]