All I really wanted was one David Bowie tribute that didn’t suck, knowing that most of them would, so I could talk about that a little.Instead, Antonio Rodriguez Garcia actually came up with one I really like. I hadn’t expected that, but here it is.(UPDATE: Antonio disclaims credit, saying he had simply passed it along […]
Today’s Bizarro comes about week after I had one of those visits to the doctor where you have to take something and then sit around waiting for it to kick in, during which time I read a copy of “Field and Stream,” which I hadn’t read since my days as a kid in the barbershop.I’ve said […]
Today’s Andertoons is one that could run about anytime these days, since there doesn’t seem to be a moment when someone isn’t pestering you for feedback.I bought a pair of Yaktrax online and, 24 hours after they arrived, got an email from the third-party supplier with the subject line “We need you to write an […]
Timing is everything in comedy and all sorts of other stuff as well.I encountered Harry Bliss’s daily panel at Gocomics within half an hour of coming across a Very Important Interview with a Very Important Artist about a Very Important Piece of Work she had done as a Very Important Commentary on a Very Important […]
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 […]
David Horsey Dan WassermanBoy, the new year has sure kicked off with a bang for the paranoid and undereducated.The immediate response to Obama’s executive order has been interesting. The usual suspects have, as Wasserman suggests, jerked their knees, but I’ve also seen a lot of response from gun owners that what he has ordered doesn’t […]
I’ll admit I haven’t been following TV coverage of the Oregon standoff, but between Jen Sorensen’s take and Ann Telnaes’s animation and a few lesser commentaries, I gather the media confusion I cited yesterday has not cleared up appreciably.I have noticed that disjointed reporting continues in on-line sources and, meanwhile, the false equivalencies continue to flourish […]
Between some repeats, some un-updated sites and a continuing trickle of late-arriving New Year’s gags, it seems apparent that having a major holiday fall on Friday means Monday doesn’t exactly hit the ground running, particularly when it’s New Years and we’ve just had an entire week of nobody doing anything.However, at least the crazies worked […]
The reverberations of the Ted Cruz organ-grinder cartoon persist as we near the anniversary of the Charlie Hebdo murders, and if any clarity has emerged from either, it is that you can not argue a fool into understanding.The true folly is to recognize that a person is either deliberately lying or genuinely incapable of understanding, and […]
I gotta say, digging through the pile of New Year’s cartoons this morning didn’t yield a whole lot of ponies.Good Rule of Thumb: If the idea comes that easily, it probably occurred to everyone else, too.Whatever. You got credit for showing up on the holiday and the holiday is over.Now how’s about everyone getting back to […]
And welcome to 1916!Let’s start this look at the New Year of a century ago with a quick review of the year just past, and, since we’re in pre-1923 public-domain territory anyway, not only can you click to embiggen, but you can get an even clearer look if you simply download a copy,The big story […]
Start with Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal, which happens to tie into this Hemingway spoof I posted on Facebook yesterday. Ironically, “A Moveable Feast” is firmly anchored at my house: It’s next to the john, because I was decluttering and donating and came across it and thought, “Well, I suppose I ought to read it first.”Reading “The […]
On the Fastrack is a syndicated comic with a pretty lively on-line presence, and Dethany, who began as an odd little goth admin ass’t has emerged, as minor characters sometimes do, into a dominant part of the strip, complete with her avian sidekick, Lenore.Today’s strip is a nice meld of the geek-basics of Fastrack with […]
The blowback over Ann Telnaes’ cartoon condemning Ted Cruz for exploiting his children continues, and I suppose you could ask, had she gone Rob Rogers’ route and depicted the three of them as clowns, would the explosion have happened?And the cynical response is that Ted would still have risen up all butt-hurt and asking for […]
Let’s start at the end: Edge City is in its final week and is having some fun with the concept. I like the idea of actually signing off rather than just stopping, and being up front with readers. I’m sorry the strip is ending, but I’m glad to see them go out with a little class. Voter […]