Here’s an oldie from 2000 which I came across when I was, of course, looking for something else. It was an instant favorite of mine because (A) I had a neighbor who overdecorated at Christmas and (B) at the time this appeared, General Electric had thrown up in the Hudson River and was fighting for […]
That was exactly my response when I got my first pair of glasses in third grade. I had just assumed that, at a distance, trees looked like drawings of trees: A big blob of green, and you weren’t supposed to be able to see the leaves unless you got closer. And then Ben tossed another, […]
A lot of comics have pinged memories lately, but we’ll start with an unpleasant one, because Merthiolate and Mercurochrome were indeed the go-to antiseptics for small cuts and scrapes back in the day, and here’s more than you need to know about them. They were a good reason not to go crying to your mother […]
I don’t know if New York’s lieutenant governor was a Democrat or a Republican in 1920, but here’s a peek into the duties of the office back then. Happy Humpday in the middle of a busy week when I could use a few laughs.When I was in TV advertising, my sales manager went, not to […]
It may just be my imagination but… Did Tom Armstrong go to slightly different lettering for Marvin this week? Also new! For only the third time this year we have a new MUTTS comic strip! The John Hart Studio is playing with the format. The Wizard of Id makes hay with the time-space continuum. While […]
I like the idea of a horse/llama hybrid, though it’s not genetically possible. But llamas have some advantages, since they are both surefooted and soft-footed, so can traverse all sorts of wilderness without tearing it up, and they can be housebroken, which horses, notably, cannot. And if you are nice to them, they don’t spit; […]
Opening with one political cartoon, largely because I disagree. Trump’s clodhopper interference in the World Cup didn’t destroy the integrity of soccer. It merely pointed out the lack of integrity of FIFA, which — as has been noted here and everywhere else — wasn’t in doubt to begin with. If the red card kerfuffle made […]
Having deleted several cartoons, both strips and political, that referred to Dear Leader’s now-moribund slush fund, it was a surprise to find a case of coincidental timing that did apply to something in the news. Not that it’s all that encouraging, but these days you have to take whatever you can get. Enough politics: It’s […]
Some notes on newspaper comic strips from the past week. King Features Gets Into the Foodservice Business It is not unusual for Zippy to visit a diner, though he did so in five of the six dailies this week. And the Motel Cafe has been the center of the Rex Morgan universe for three months […]
It’s true and it could trigger a whole rant, but instead let’s put aside the bad vibes for a day and have a few laughs.You can decide for yourself whether this is bad vibes or a laugh, but IMHO it’s only funny when everything else in the relationship is working. Which is true of all […]
Nancy Beiman gave us a three week notice of the annual “holy day.” The others mostly waited until today. Today comic strips transition from World Press Freedom Day (not mentioned at all) and National Star Wars Day (many references yesterday) to National Cartoonist Day/Cinco de Mayo. Or Inko de Mayo.Lalo Alcaraz and Chip Sansom weren’t […]
If Carillo had dropped this tomorrow instead of last Sunday, you might think he was commenting on the Hegseth/Ezekiel/Pulp Fiction matter, rather than accidentally predicting a week in which everyone was wrong and the smart move was to stay out of it.In any case, Hegseth wasn’t quoting either Zeke or Jules, but since making the […]
Today is Humpday, but it’s also Tax Day, and so since there are cartoons that will be out of date by tomorrow morning, we’ll take a hybrid comedy/politics look at the day.Matson seizes on a familiar approach, but while his “filing status” section is pretty much as seen before, his check-offs are specific political criticisms […]
This is as political as I’m going to get today, and I often have to decide whether Venables belongs in humor or politics. Here’s some of both. Maybe I’ll do a whole page of Pam Bondi cartoons later, but I’m not in the mood this morning.If nothing else, I remember endless Good Friday services as […]
If anybody any older than Thandi has any doubts about this, we’ll deal with it tomorrow. Naivete is charming, but not knowing this is well beyond either naivete or charm. However, let’s be gracious, if not out of decency then for practical reasons: You don’t convert people by insulting them, so I haven’t put a […]