As I’ve noted before, Arlo & Janis’s cat, Ludwig, is a realistic feline. I’d go so far as to say that he is the most realistic pet in all of comicdom, and part of that is evident in his facial expressions today. Cats have an innocent ability to live in the moment that dogs do […]
Unfortunately, he won’t keep it up into next month. Cleats, one of my favorite strips, is ending this week, which explains the recent poke Bill Hinds took at unscientific “reader polls.” Follow along as a talented cartoonist wraps up what has been a really good family strip.
On the Fastrack, one of Bill Hobrook’s three daily strips (!), is office humor, which tends to be a little tedious, but Hobrook has mitigated that threat by centering on high tech humor and letting the Dagwood/Dithers cliches at least play out in a more focused arena. There are days it is incredibly geeky […]
Wednesday is usually a day for one-off gag strips, because all the story arcs are pretty well in motion and it’s hard to bring readers who haven’t been following them up to date, and they’re not delivering punchlines yet anyway, so there’s really no point in trying.However, Cul de Sac tends to operate on a […]
At least 20 newspapers declined to carry this Non Sequitur, requesting a rerun instead. In addition, Western Printing, a company that prints Sunday comic sections for smaller papers, refused it.Read it at your peril. It will likely corrupt your soul.
Granted, this Doonesbury sequence is in Trudeau’s often-clumsy preachy mode rather than in his more relaxed humorous social-criticism tone, but the idea of carrying a grudge that long, and the implication that it was at least in part a motivation for all the striving, is something I find particularly funny. Not in the least […]
Some symbols are so standard that they can lose impact, but Tony Auth makes excellent use of both the Statue of Liberty and the Klan regalia in this cartoon. I’m not as blown away by his labels — I think it was an unnecessary complication to tie in the GOP and the Tea Party Movement […]
(This interview with Garfield creator Jim Davis is one of a series of cartoonist profiles I did in 2003 for the Post-Star of Glens Falls, NY)Garfield was born where a lot of cats are born: In the basement. He sure didn’t stay there. Jim Davis had worked for nine years as an assistant on the […]
There weren’t so many “breakfast in bed/chaos in the kitchen” Mother’s Day jokes as usual yesterday, but there weren’t many like this, either.I haven’t looked to see when it will be coming up, but I’ve got a profile of Stone Soup creator Jan Eliot that will be running one of these weekends. It was one […]
I don’t know if Keith Knight is feeling introspective because his strip, “Knight Life,” just turned two years old, or because (as he plugs here) he’s got his first collection out. But here’s an inside look at the work of one of about half a dozen cartoonists who I could put in this spot almost […]