Let’s start today with the upcoming storm. Of all the predications I’ve been monitoring, Clay Bennett’s seems the most accurate.I don’t know why summer heat doesn’t bring countervailing cartoons about “Well, I guess there is such a thing after all,” except that I know exactly why.There is a whole category of political cartoons that are only political in […]
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 […]
A really disconnected grouping today, so let’s start easy with Edge City, in which the grandparents have been exploring the concept of retirement communities. I can be objective about this because, though I am approaching retirement age, I won’t ever be able to afford to retire and writers don’t “retire” anyway. I came to grips some […]
If you haven’t put the Nib on your regular diet … well, thanks, because it means you have to come here for clues of when you should go there.But you’re probably missing some comics that would tickle your fancy but don’t particularly tickle mine.Not to suggest that my fancy isn’t wonderfully ticklish, mind you. But […]
A perfect time to run into a simple, small, non-cosmic bit of humor from Hilary Price at Rhymes with Orange.I’m sick of issues and need a bit of whimsy. The mission of this blog includes the idea that all good cartoons invoke truth, but, thank goodness, some truths are weightier than others.As are some crates. When […]
In a somewhat coincidental follow-up to yesterday’s post about kid-like kids in comics, we come to Baby Blues, a comic about parents for parents in which the kids are as exaggerated for comedic effect as are the situations.I say “somewhat coincidental” because I would have chosen this strip anyway, but it’s a nice match. Baby […]