My Three Sons.No, the cartoon is Barney and Clyde.To the best of my knowledge, the term “the hairy eyeball” originated with Chip Douglas. You’re welcome. You’re also welcome for alerting you to the story arc beginning in Candorville. I don’t know where it’s headed, but the voices-from-beyond arcs in this strip are always worth following. This arc […]
Today’s Baby Blues could touch off a full rant on its own, since it doesn’t take much to get me started on the topic of my summers at Camp Lord O’ The Flies, and a shameful lesson I learned was just what Zoey states: Better anyone else but me.As a small kid with a big mouth, […]
I wish I’d have had this Candorville yesterday to run along with the topic of media literacy, but here it is today and so let’s keep the dialogue going a little longer.Again, if your newsfeed is full of stupidity, it isn’t because the world is full of stupidity.Though it is, but it’s full of all […]
The shortest take of all: Rhymes With Orange demonstrates Hilary Price’s ability to be silly.There’s probably a way to elaborate on this idea and it’s good she didn’t. At the other end of the simplicity scale, The Brilliant Mind of Edison Lee takes a leisurely cruise around the bay before getting to the gag, and a […]
Walt Handelsman reminds us of a couple of things.One is that, in a political contest, the candidates try to out-do each other. There is nothing inherently disloyal in trying to gain more votes than your opponent and doing so does not make you a demon.The other related point is that, in commenting upon same, you […]
Frazz is my favorite educational comic: I didn’t know that “boutonnière” is French for the buttonhole you stick your boutonniere in.And that link taught me all sorts of other things I didn’t know, including that jackets not only used to have real buttonholes there (which I did know) but that there was a loop behind […]
Today’s comics provided a cascade of health-related juxtapositions to write about, starting with Candorville (which happens to be a rerun, but it’s a really good rerun) and, yes, exactly, Lemont.And this is a good argument for having kids before you’re too old to get down on the floor with them and disappear into their world, […]
A new comic is born. Well, sort of. Over at Between Friends, Kim is finally getting down to creating her strip and she had me at “Kate Mathis.”Or maybe in the festival of credits she bestows upon herself at the start. (You forgot “letterer,” Kim.)Or maybe it’s the way Kim Matthews has been dithering around over […]
I could probably use my Andy Rooney pics for nearly everything today, because I seem to be stuck in Old Fart Mode. Oh well. It’s always worth the price of admission here. For instance, On The Fastrack made me scroll back my memory bar, and I think the last time I got a Christmas bonus was 1981.Do […]
Retail provides today’s starting point, taking us to much grimmer but not unrelated areas.On a superficial level, Marla’s right and you can’t win and I got a good laff out of that part. People want to grind axes and be offended. “Happy Holidays” doesn’t necessarily mean “Christmas and Hannukah.”For people living in less diverse communities, it […]
Yes, Anne. Yes, indeed.Last spring, I gave up political cartoons for Lent and it was very pleasant, but in times of crisis, you can’t just sit around pretending not to know what’s happening.On the other hand, there is still pie in the world and you shouldn’t neglect that, either. So I have no idea what sort […]
Today’s Candorville provides a springboard for all sorts of good rants.One is to ask if people know their IQs these days?It used to be a no-no to publicize those scores, and certainly to let a kid know his own IQ, in large part for the reasons Clyde gives: It prejudices the way people react to […]
Donna Lewis’s “Replay All” is a good place to go right after a discursion on New Yorker cartoons, because she has that same, “yep, that’s how it is” approach: Observational humor that doesn’t have a punchline so much as a wry acknowledgement. This particular arc has me laughing because, to start with, a once-noble paper, the […]
Thankyouthankyouthankyou Signe Wilkinson, for allowing this topic to be addressed without a violation of the Prime Directive.We only show good cartoons here. We don’t mock the off-key, “don’t you people read the papers?” commentaries that should embarrass their creators, though the temptation does become almost overwhelming at times when the facts are easily found but […]
Chan Lowe knocks one over the fence.I’ve got nothing to add, except to applaud not only the political hit but the subtlety of the Capt. Renaud reference. Not that it quite fits the overused “I’m shocked! Shocked!” quote itself, but he picked up on the bland indifference to morals and consistency that makes the moment […]