Okay, yet another rant on the topic of cloth-eared editors and the state of cartooning. Start here: On Sunday, Daryl Cagle posted this cartoon to his Facebook page: He was immediately hit by a flurry of negative comments (mine among them), more or less along the line of yesterday’s CSOTD posting: That the Constitution not only […]
Jimmy Margulies notes the lack of patriotism currently at play among the self-proclaimed “patriots” who seek revenge rather than justice in the Boston bombing.Back in the olden days, the bumpersticker cry of “America: Love It or Leave It” was leveled at protestors who objected to the war and/or the draft. This never made much sense, […]
I like to mix up my postings between cartoons and commentary of Great Social Significance and ones that are more frivolous, in part to force people who take life way too seriously to get dragged into some less portentous areas for a change, and in part to force those of a more chronically whimsical nature […]
Chan Lowe perfectly drew what went through my mind Friday morning on the way to the dog park, as I was listening to the radio news of the previous night’s shoot-out.In fact, the day before,I’d been thinking of how black people speak of hearing about a crime and then watching the news saying, “please, no, […]
Today’s “Baby Blues” brings back memories of sports, arts and the ex.We got married her senior year which also would have been mine if I hadn’t dropped out. The following summer, we moved to South Bend so I could take another wack at finishing up my degree. It would only be a year, but, between windswept […]
Major hat tip today to Mike Lynch for bringing to my attention something that makes my brain hurt so much that I’m bending the rules and featuring something, not because of its excellence, but based on the fact that, as the mission statement says, it made me think.It made me think that these people had […]
Scott Stantis brings Boston into focus, but not in a particularly comforting way.One of what I guess you could call the “geopolitical-psychological” disadvantages of being a very large country and sharing the continent with only a couple of New World buddies is that we have never been forced to develop much empathy with the rest […]
I went through a raft of Boston Marathon cartoons this morning thinking I would end up leading with Nast, since the messages all seemed kind of mundane. Yes, we’re sad. And, yeah, we’d like to find out who did it. I already had Nast on my mind when I came to Matt Wuerker’s take and found we […]
One of the recurring topics in comic strips is lead time, but Monty couldn’t have placed this one much closer to the mark.We’ve finally got some real spring going here in the Connecticut Valley, and yesterday I became aware that now I can have the doors and windows open while I work. It’s very nice […]
A lot of the humor at The Gutters is insider, comic-book stuff, which leaves me doubly on the sidelines, but this one is pretty mainstream and awfully funny.This whole dudecentric view of life is not confined to the realm of comic books, nor is it particularly modern, but it’s a lively topic in that world […]
Pardon My Planet and Willie ‘n Ethel score a particularly pleasing double today by over-thinking pop psych cliches.Of course, you’re not supposed to overthink these things. It’s like carrying a tray of soup: If you look, you spill.The rub being that the person who isn’t going to look at the soup doesn’t need the advice, […]
Today’s Rudy Park touches on something I really worry about. Well, two things.1. Are they going to change technology to the point where I can’t get anything done anymore?2. Am I just an old fart?I refuse to get sucked into “new is better,” but I’m also aware of times when the changes that upset me […]
I was saving this 1979 Shoe, which was over my desk for ages, for Monday, April 15, but a couple of other tax cartoons hit today, so let’s go. If, like me, you owe money, this weekend is when you bite the bullet, right?Yes, life is deductible, though — as my then-wife used to point […]
Dave Coverly does a sort of metagag, in which he takes an exceptionally lame old joke, puts a somewhat ghastly spin on it, and turns it into comedy.The great thing about this panel is that the joke works on two levels: Vulture gifts are a pretty funny idea to begin with, and even funnier with the […]
The Barn, one of my two favorite comic strips starring a sheep (that’s not a joke, but it’s funny anyway), is in the early stages of an arc about field trips.I’ve told the story before of seeing a cow on exhibit at the Lincoln Park Zoo, and I observed then that it’s not just poor, […]