I start off with disappointment. I have mentioned before that I am not a big fan of John MacPherson‘s comic art but I keep reading Close to Home because of his mostly hilarious gag writing. Today he failed me. Yes, comics “borrowing” from others is nothing new, but this is one of Johnny Hart’s most […]
TimingJohn McPherson, who drew this weeks (months?) ago, gets the Good Timing Award this week. When I hear Mark Trail canon I think Ed Dodd canon. Turns out to be earlier this year Jules Rivera canon. There was a time, way before your time Dear Reader, when an insert called Parade was an ever-present part […]
We have had a couple Advance Locals (MLive Media and The Post-Standard) inform us of their coming revisions to the comics pages with Jim Glick, Director of Enterprise Content & Design for Print at Advance Local, giving further details in comments at both items linked above.Now The Cleveland Plain Dealer/cleveland.com has given their readers a […]
The Argyle Sweater wins the “most thought required for a really stupid joke” award. There should be a term for the combination of how much time it takes to get a joke and how dumb it is, sort of …speed:velocity::funny:(new term)The problem is figuring out how to apply it. Some people probably got this right away […]
Let’s start with this Garrincha cartoon. I’ve said before that I’m more attuned to the story-telling American style of political cartooning rather than the more metaphorical international style, but this is a situation in which the two blend rather seamlessly. Moreover, I like the cartoon for what Gustavo Rodriguez is and what his cartoon isn’t. […]
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 […]
Boy, a rough day for granolas on the funny pages! Several cartoonists decided this was the day to take a shot:Let’s start in the snacks aisle with Glenn McCoy and the Duplex: Back when my new wife and I were ovo-lacto veggies, the idea of “organic Twinkies” would have been absurd. The only health food […]
Seems odd to be returning to the topic of second-time-around romance within the same week, but today’s Close to Home brought forth such a hearty “Yes!” from me that I couldn’t rule it out on the basis of having recently discussed that sort of thing.Besides, romantic disasters never go out of fashion.That previous post was […]