A pair of story arcs are beginning this week that promise to comment on the flavor of our times. The major one is in Doonesbury, addressing the death of Daniel Patrick Moynihan’s rule, “You’re entitled to your own opinion, but you’re not entitled to your own facts.”We’ve always had spin and interpretation and selective perception, […]
Jeff Millar, the writing half of the “Tank McNamara” team, died Friday of cancer. I never met Jeff, though his partner on the strip, Bill Hinds, has been an on-line friend for several years. More to the point, Tank McNamara has been on my comics radar since the strip debuted in the mid-Seventies.Cartoons on the […]
This isn’t really a “classic,” but this Madame & Eve is from a couple of days ago, so it can’t really be the Comic Strip of the Day, either.(Language note: “Gogo” is the Zulu term from “grandmother.” An Afrikaaner kid would call her “Ouma.” I think that leaves at least 9 significant South African languages […]
Unfortunately, he won’t keep it up into next month. Cleats, one of my favorite strips, is ending this week, which explains the recent poke Bill Hinds took at unscientific “reader polls.” Follow along as a talented cartoonist wraps up what has been a really good family strip.