By now you should have three partridges in pear trees, four calling birds and three French hens, or at least three notices from UPS saying they will be delivered tomorrow and will require signatures, in which case you should keep your eyes open because they’ll be left on the porch in the snow.Meanwhile, we’re getting […]
Bennett’s day-after cartoon would have been easy to nit-pick a year or so ago, because half of us wanted the exchange immediately while half of us were pleased, so using Uncle Sam would have been unfair.However, waking up on Boxing Day to find that he bombed another country and then spewed about 150 screwy messages […]
December 25, 1975* — Older Strips # — Special Materials
In 1952, a year after Associated Press Newsfeatures delivered the six part The Story of Santa Claus to newspapers, they brought out the six part Behind the Christmas Story. Again drawn by AP art director Ed Gunder and probably (there is no proof) written by AP correspondent Sherry Bowen who had written AP’s The Story […]
We’ll let Mads Horwath reply to all the strips in which kids try to be good in the week before Christmas, hoping to make up for 51 weeks of normal behavior. The idea of Santa Claus rewarding good children and punishing bad children goes back a long way, and I have to hope that not […]
Christmas greetings from First Dog, who gets special placement today because he likes mince pies and fruitcake. I’ve made something of a tradition here of mocking cartoons that mock fruitcake, because it’s a grownup treat and so takes a lot of unwarranted abuse. But here’s a strip from 2002 that explains what has happened to […]
Today is Boxing Day or St. Stephen’s Day or Wren Day (Lá an Dreoilín) or, as I call it, the point when if I haven’t used a cartoon yet it’s probably become irrelevant because they’ve all been about Christmas for the past three weeks.Fiona Katauskas takes an appropriately irreverent and silly look at Boxing Day. […]
You’ll note Santa’s helmet at the left. This banner was from 1944, 80 years ago, six months after D-Day and right in the heart of the Battle of the Bulge, which explains the light in the window at the right. The war was also in the heart of most comic strips on Christmas that year.Race […]
Wallace the Brave (AMS) and Spud the … um … the Spudacious … offer a holiday take that breaks through the usual seasonal noise. And speaking of noise, I’d rather have a couple of kids come by with an absurd but amusing rap than hear Musak at the store in which nameless singers flail at […]
I’m mixing political cartoons with humor today, and starting with a question: Does anybody really care about this issue anymore?Clay Jones isn’t the only left-of-center cartoonist to bring it up, but it’s been a long time since I’ve seen anyone right-of-center whining about the whole “Merry Christmas/Happy Holidays” kerfuffle. I suppose maybe I have just […]
“Many a truth is spoken in jest” and Jim Benton hits on one here. Things seem to be degenerating faster, or at least more blatantly, than expected, but I’m going to provide readers with a few laffs today while we give the editorial cartoonists some time to catch up.Meanwhile, I hope you haven’t already spent […]
Jeff Stahler (AMS) ruins all our fun by pointing out the obvious, which is that there are a lot of theories about drones that are downright screwy and that Occam’s razor continues to rule: The simplest explanation is generally correct.One night in the depths of winter, a group of us were on a hilltop watching […]
I’m trying to be more productive than the fellow in Matt’s cartoon, but there does seem to be a lot of letdown in the actual week we’re going through. I’m going to assume things will pick up along about the Eighth Day of Christmas.Which is Maids A-Milking and let’s hope we do better than this, […]
The Dogs of C Kennel (Creators) are experiencing a temporary lull, but we’re not. However, St. Stephen’s Day is, granted, not as exciting as Christmas and the dopamine hit is more subtle. We’ll get to the wren in a minute, but there’s no park. I just liked the headline, because if you are of the […]
It’s always nice to get the family together for the holidays, and here they are before they went Hollywood.As for the current holiday, Greg Kearney noted the downpour in Maine, which was worse than we had it next door, but we also had some power failures and erasure of snow-making on the ski hills and […]