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 […]
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 Jason Alex (Arctic Circle) Hallatt and Jason (Ginger Meggs) Chatfield spend an entertaining […]
Constant Readers know how I sneer at talk about Gen X and Gen Y and all that. The Baby Boom was about a large number of kids coming at roughly the same time after WWII, and there are demographic ideas to be pulled from it. The other day, I was remembering a news article I […]
I refilled my pill caddies last night and began using fexofenadine (generic Allegra) in place of loratadine (generic Claritin). The theory is that swapping them back and forth every few months makes each of them work better. I don’t know if that’s true, but what is true is that the loratadine was a pinhead and […]
We’ll start out with one that knocked me over. Susan had accepted a job, along with her former boss Savreen, only to find it was a soul-killing dead end. She’s been pondering and job searching and getting frustrated, but today seems promising. What jolted me was that several years ago, I dropped into my boss’s […]
Sandra Bell-Lundy has been cartooning Between Friends for 35 years and most of us have thought it was the only comic strip she has done during that time, but there was a four week period when she created a full-page weekly strip for a couple of Canadian broadsheets. It was what comic book fans would […]
I’m not thinking about games and consoles, but I am taking a day for humor in hopes of distracting from the news a bit. That doesn’t mean giving in and it doesn’t mean turning off entirely. I emailed my Congressional representative before I began today’s posting. It took about two minutes, in part because I […]
Canada Day is this Tuesday and I don’t actually have a Canadian cartoon handy, but we’ve just further bollixed our relationship with our second largest trading partner — Mexico is first; we have a talent for not following the money — and things are beginning to sound like this Edison Lee. When I was covering […]
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 […]
Here’s what I’m not talking about today, and why. On the one hand, I agree with the couple in Byrnes’ cartoon, because it’s not much of a surprise and I don’t respect either of them and, overall, I don’t much care. On the other, I also agree with Deering’s suggestion that we’ve got plenty of […]
This morning’s Duplex reminded me of a news story I was sure I’d clipped, but can’t find. A business professor at the University of Denver wanted to make a point about ethics, so announced to his class that he was going to award a certain number of A, B, C and D grades and that […]
This took me a minute, after which I felt foolish for having not gotten it right away. There is no relationship so genuinely wonderful that Maeve cannot screw it up. Between Friends doesn’t provide a lot of belly laughs; the humor is more a sigh of recognition at human frailty, and regular readers know the […]
I wasn’t going to feature any political cartoons today, but this one not only made me laugh but is extraordinarily topical, given that it has just been revealed that our Secretary of Defense set up a personal Signal chat on his personal phone on which he gave friends and family advance details about the attack […]
We’ll touch on something vaguely political before moving on into folly. Or, that is, intentional folly. I have nothing, theoretically, against brokers except a general prejudice that they should set you up with a portfolio that works and then leave you, and it, alone, barring some major change, like having the President say “Now is […]
Monotonous, isn’t it? Except that this Sunday, it’s Baby Blues instead of Barney & Clyde. As I’ve suggested before, it doesn’t seem it would be that hard or expensive to have somebody run through the Sunday comics at launch to make sure they each contain both a color and a black plate, and I’ll bet […]