This week Greg and Karen Evans are bothering me. I’m used to King Features and Comics Kingdom updating the copyright dates on their reruns. And at least Patrick McDonnell erases the original copyright year without replacing it with the current year. I do give Greg and Karen credit for giving fans a heads-up. A couple […]
The whole world was watching, but French cartoonist Anne Derenne captured it best. I’ll come back to this after things settle in a little and a few more cartoons have appeared, but, in the meantime, she’s worked past the nonsensical rhetoric and seized upon the kernel of what that speech was about. We can parse the specifics, […]
I tried. I really did. But, again, I got distracted.I had pulled out today’s Baby Blues, because it coincides with Hasbros’ announcement that they are dropping the boot, the thimble and the wheelbarrow tokens from Monopoly and adding a rubber ducky, a T Rex and a penguin, and I was simply going to laugh at the […]
John Cole gets props today less for the quality of the concept than for the fact that his parody scans.That is, I don’t disagree with the concept: Trump’s eagerness to describe every setback as the result of a conspiracy needs to be pointed out, and the more ridicule involved, the more it’s at least possible to […]
(Piranha Club) (Non Sequitur)Leading off the day, and the week, with a pair of starts to story arcs that could prove fun.If you follow Piranha Club, you probably have a taste for the silly, and there are times when Bud Grace doesn’t even try to hide his own flair for same. This appears to be […]
The joke here is that, if I had used pen-and-ink instead of doing this on the computer, the results, given my artistic skills, would be pretty much the same.The point is more serious, though only my opinion and perhaps more of a kvetch than a critique. The old guys in the backshop at one of my […]
I make no secret of my affection for Rip Kirby, but I don’t think it’s favoritism to declare today’s (well, July 31, 1956’s) strip to be the winner for best dialogue.In the new arc that started yesterday, this actress got a review in which it was suggested she’s no longer an ingenue, and she’s blaming […]