Ben Bolt hit me squarely this morning.To bring you up to speed, in this 1956 story arc (which I noted earlier came out at roughly the same time as “Rebel Without a Cause”), Ben has befriended a young hood who lost a leg in a game of vehicular chicken, and found him a job as […]
The best part about that classic Geico commercial — aside from the number of times the camel says my name — is that, however annoying he may be, the people trying to ignore him are apparently locked into work they don’t enjoy. It’s not like he’s distracting them from something they want to be doing. Which means I […]
Thank you, Darrin Bell.Today’s Candorville makes the point, now that every editorial cartoonist has done a “Trump kills Big Bird and Elmo” cartoon, that Sesame Street hasn’t been a PBS or CPB production for a couple of years now.This isn’t to say that public broadcasting shouldn’t be in the budget. But if you’re going to […]
Someone recently said that the Internet has ruined April Fool’s Day by pummeling us with a constant barrage of untruths for no apparent reason.I had a friend who would cheat at anything, which made some less-than-admirable sense when he had his kids lie about their ages to shave money from ticket prices, but made very […]
Warming up with the whole “saddest words” thing over at Candorville.Lemont is moving to Canada to be with his girlfriend in Vancouver, whose name, as far as we know so far, is simply “Vancouver.” They met on-line and he’s been up there to visit her.Once.I’d love to be a romantic, but, boy oh boy, I’m […]
Guido Kuehn leads off today with a massive dose of “Who cares?”There was, at one point, a theory going around that Trump was some mastermind, purposely tweeting outrageous nonsense to distract us from the actual evil afoot.It appears now that he’s a lazy-but-aggressive imbecile who gets all his purported facts from Fox News (see yesterday’s blog), […]
Today’s Vintage Thimble Theater, which dates from September 4, 1930, struck me as extraordinary use of a generous canvas.Segar regularly had six panels at his disposal, and there were times when they were filled with dialogue, but this wasn’t one of them.Moreover, this was the third day in the “Popeye sneaks up on Snorky” arc, […]
Since it’s Sunday, we’ll lead off with Tom Toles’ cartoon. Trump has spoken out of both sides of his mouth on the immigrant ban, insisting that it’s not anti-Muslim but then adding that Christian refugees will get special treatment (I’m confident he has no idea that there are also Yazidis in the mix, much less what […]
Let’s begin with either a tip or a complaint: An increasing number of web sites, for reasons I cannot fathom, heap up a bunch of old material at their top, either on a deep “Showcase” banner or, in the case of Facebook, in the form of a collage of old pics.The result is that you […]
Seems like a clean-up day on the comics pages today: Some people doing “taking down the tree” 12th Night cartoons, others wrapping up the last of the New Year’s Resolutions gags.Candorville departs from that with a rumination on exes or, in this case, nearly-exes.It’s a potentially rich mine to dig in, because, on the one […]
This is the way the world ends, BC suggests: Not with a splash, but a trickle.Note that they adjust a few meters at a time. It would make more sense to say “five kilometers” but comics aren’t required to make sense and, unfortunately, neither is reality, or, at least, not the portion of reality that is […]
Today’s Loose Parts didn’t so much crack me up as it sent me back in time, and that’s appropriate at the holidays, though when I go back in time it’s not always for fluffy nostalgia.Sometimes, it’s to point out an outrage, such as this: When did parsley stop being a garnish and become just an […]
I really want to avoid the obvious topic, and Baby Blues made me smile because backyard chickens are becoming a suburban fad and, yeah, if you only have half a dozen and you weren’t raised to look upon them as developing into food, well, they won’t.In an earlier time — like, when “Charlotte’s Web” was […]
Let this empty frame stand in for all the “after I voted I had to shower” cartoons that don’t deserve to be juxtaposed. When I juxtapose — which I’ll be doing today — it’s to show differing takes, not a collection of no takes at all.I was in a liquor store once and heard someone ask […]
There’s nothing Halloweenish in today’s Pajama Diaries, but I’m going to lead with it because it made me wonder how many children’s books were inspired by writers contemplating their junk drawers?Jill worries that one of those keys might unlock the secrets of a long-lost relative, but the locks on those old trunks, as with the […]