A departure from format today for something I think is well worth it.”My Friend Dahmer” is not a comic strip, though its creator, Derf Backderf, has been featured here for his strip, “The City,” more than once.It’s also not a graphic novel, despite the fact that, on its cover, it says “a graphic novel by […]
I enjoy Sinfest even when I don’t know what in hell is going on. Or what on earth is going on. Or even what in heaven is going on.The last couple of weeks have seemed a little vague in that regard, but the art always makes it worth dropping in, and I think that’s one […]
Betty and Alex have spent the week at a coffeeshop fussing over this zen garden. You rarely know how much real-time time is being depicted in a story arc, but I’d say finding enlightenment in the time it takes to drink a cup of coffee is about par for the course.Any deep moral teachings that […]
A departure from format today because of a bit of serendipitous synchronicity (as in the best it is). Two cartoons, not in opposition, not exactly in concert, but worth viewing together and not just in that NPR “on this hand but then again on the other hand” way.Matt Bors has posted this observation …… while […]
Today’s Gil will probably ring truer with those of us who work from home, as opposed to that cute girl from New Hampshire who works at home and is seen in ads in the margins of all the articles I read on-line.She makes so much money that I’m sure she has hired someone to watch […]
I often get it down to two or three strips and then have to make a final decision.Today’s Ink Pen was — as is often the case — one of those two or three, but I’ll admit sentiment tipped the balance, given that the first posting on this blog was two years and 10 days […]
Stopped at the grocery store on the way back from the dog park tonight. There it was 5:30 at night, and there were people crowded around a little table to buy bunches of flowers and others — young, old, men, women — standing in the greeting card aisle, staring at the Valentine section in hopes […]
There were — among the “I bought you some candy for me to eat” cartoons and the “Omigod I forgot Valentine’s Day” cartoons — some pretty good Valentine’s Day comics this year.But Agnes, as is her wont, cut through the sentiment and got right to the quick.Mind you, much of the charm of Agnes is […]
Dog Eat Doug is at its best when it offers up a small slice of semi-realistic kid-and-dog solidarity.Don’t get me wrong: I like it all the time. But these moments rise above.When I was growing up, we had this Rube Goldberg-style wooden highchair that, if you swapped it around this way and that, would become […]
Oh, that liberal Doonesbury!This is an unusual strip, not because Doonesbury doesn’t regularly target liberal foibles — of course it does, and always has — but because Trudeau is generally pretty specific in assigning them, and Walden (this professor’s claim to be the exception not withstanding) has always seemed to epitomize the kind of school […]
If you are a fan of Cul de Sac but not a frequent visitor to Richard Thompson’s blog, you’re missing half the fun.Given his years of illustration work and cartooning, Richard has an extensive backlog of wonderful things he can pull up for nearly any occasion, as with this 2003 salute to the Westminster Kennel […]
Incidental Comics is a feature I keep on my gocomics list for moments like this.My prejudices have been stated several times, and my tastes lean heavily towards writing. Grant Snider’s work seems to lean heavily towards art. Our moments, then, do not often coincide, but, boy, when they do, it’s a lovely moment indeed.This being […]
Keith Knight with a dignified tribute to a dignified man. I never quite got how Don Cornelius, who seemed so grown-up and cool-in-the-dispassionate-sense fit in with the music he featured. But that was part of the deal, and, while it was good to bring soul to mainstream audiences, I was old enough by then to […]
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 […]
Watch Your Head scores with one of those gags that will only work in the hands of one character.That’s not only a hallmark of a good gag, but of a good strip, and Omar is the perfect choice for this one: He’s so above it all, and someone we all know all too well.This week, […]