I’m just on the point (fingers crossed/wood knocked upon) of having a client sign off on a project that has been a lot of fun, a 14-chapter children’s historical fiction serial about a young fellow going off from Lachine, Quebec, into the high country as a voyageur in 1800.Collaborating artist for the project has been […]
It’s pure happenstance that Classic Shirley & Son came around to one of my very favorite segments in one of my very favorite strips just as the term “conscious uncoupling” became a buzz word.When the phrase popped up in a pair of otherwise unrelated political cartoons, I Googled it and discovered that Gwyneth Paltrow had […]
Let’s start with stupid today and work our way up.Gags about saggy blue jeans and other teen fashions are the stuff of lame, burned-out old hacks, but today’s Bizarro is more incisive, probing beyond Andy Rooney and getting into more dangerous Bill Cosby territory.I was a huge Bill Cosby fan in my early teen years. But […]
No heavy lifting today. Tank McNamara on the topic of college sports and amateurism. I’m not sure where Bill Hinds is taking this, but it’s a worthwhile issue, particularly as we prepare for a round of (yawn) Winter Olympics.The Olympics once had an elitist, often racist, amateurism requirement that needed to go. But the combination […]
It’s fashionable to hate Garfield, with his repetitive dread of Mondays and abuse of Odie and embrace of lasagna and so forth and so on. Or, at least, that’s what I assume still goes on there. To tell the truth, for all the strips I read every day, Garfield isn’t one of them.However, that said […]
As Chris Baldwin notes over at the latest Space Trawler, the two of us went down to Elmira, NY, yesterday to research a children’s story we’re working on. And he’s right that the archivist at the Chemung County Historical Society is a rare resource. Rather than just trotting out the usual pieces and telling us […]