Comics Kingdom subscription bargain, Cartoon Brew changes hands, Kevin Kallaugher on TV, San Diego Comic-Con panels of interest, Comics Revue ends after 42 years, seeking lost Eartha comic strips by John M. Burns, what some of those strange items advertised in old comic books really were, and a reminder to get your Reuben Playbill ad.Comics […]
My town has been replacing an outmoded sewer system, which will improve the cleanliness of the Connecticut River but has played hob with trying to get from one place to another, since it involves very large pipes under very important streets. This has given me many opportunities not only to contemplate how they could have done […]
So yesterday’s debacle included a crash that lost two hours of work and then, when I started up again, some second wave of technical gremlins that brought things to a quick exit because I had a meeting to get to.”Gremlins,” that is, not to be confused with “Femlins,” one of whom appears in Andy Marlette’s […]
Kevin Siers proves that you can breathe life into any tired trope if you are clever and the facts align.The Pinocchio gag may, like Hitler references, have been rolled out too early and used too often, beaten into cliche before we realized how much we were going to need it. Or maybe it’s just that […]
Donald Trump turned 16 in June, 1962, a few months before the Cuban Missile Crisis in October. He was a junior in high school. I was not quite 13 and in the eighth grade, and I remember the Cuban Missile Crisis as well as the Crisis in Berlin and several other things that made our relationship […]
Most fair-minded observers anticipated bromance.Clay Bennett posted this one a few days ago, which didn’t seem much of a shocking prediction but mostly made me wonder when young dorm-dwellers switched from a tie to a sock as a sign that there was a romantic event going on that should not be interrupted.Probably when most dorm-dwellers […]
Today’s Baby Blues, if I were the cartoonist, would have had a fourth panel in which the other shoppers cheer.Savvy shoppers can spot, and avoid, these Coupon Queens by the little accordion folders they carry, full of coupons, as Wanda says, organized and color coded and obsessively catalogued so that they only take an additional […]
But first, Stephen Collins has a funny commentary based on the World Cup, though the tournament may be over before you see this. However, you should go see the whole thing, of which this is a snippet.Glad to see someone, as they say in Britain, taking the piss out of the snobs who brag about […]
Graeme MacKay uses the matryoshka doll image well here, both because we all recognize the Russian toy and because, in this case, the layers of hiding boil down to that last tiny doll, the one that is just a little wooden nib at the end.Mueller’s indictments are important because they aren’t simply accusations, but proof […]
Let’s start with Prickly City, where, for the last couple of days, Winslow has been looking for Carmen and we have what I guess passes for a happy ending now.It is indeed scary what passes for reasonable these days.It’s also scary and depressing, by the way and excuse me for being a Grinch, what […]
I like Tom Toles’ commentary, but, then again, there’s a strong element of “So what?” in the air these days.Not “So what? It doesn’t matter,” but “so what?” in the sense of “So what are you going to do about it now?” because, from the moment Bernie Sanders conceded the nomination to Hilary Clinton and […]
Patrick Chappatte with a cartoon so wonderful that I don’t mind that it may well be obsolete by the time you see this.With the US not qualifying, I’ve been picking teams throughout World Cup only to have them disappear, and I’m reluctant to say that I’m rooting for France today, not simply because there’s a […]
We’ll start with a rare example of an artist beating the bureaucracy, with a hat tip to Bado for pointing out this WashPost article.The Postal Service wanted to feature the Statue of Liberty on a stamp. They found a nice photo of her and purchased the rights from Getty Images for $1500, then ran off […]
Arlo & Janis touches off a low-level rant, because I care more about this phenomenon on radio than I do on TV, possibly because I don’t watch a lot of TV.I appreciate that, in the Olden Days segment, he had the woman come in from the next room, because, if you were right there, phones […]
I mentioned the other day that, in eighth grade social studies, we learned the terms “log-rolling” and “back-patting,” from a teacher who also required us to know the members of the Supreme Court and of the President’s Cabinet, and, in the latter case, what their departments were charged with.It’s become a regular luncheon-speaker horror story […]