The river of Trayvon Martin/George Zimmerman cartoons should begin flooding in any time now, but my expectations are very low and I’m not going to wait to tackle the topic.Besides, I like Daryl Cagle’s take: It’s not only simple and clean, but doesn’t over-reach. Nice piece of wordplay, too.I doubt anyone’s going to top it […]
Francesco Marciuliano is so good at being a wiseass that it’s easy to overlook the depth required for true wiseassery, as opposed to knee-jerk, calculatedly-irreverent, frat-boy/morning zoo stuff. This is not the first time he’s taken off the jester’s hat at Sally Forth, but he’s rarely this straightforward, and that is a good reason why the strip […]
Today’s Bizarro is an excellent example of a silly gag done well.There’s nothing wrong with silly gags in general, but it takes a smart touch to pull them off. It’s not enough to think of the phrase “divine intervention” in this other sense of “intervention,” though, yes, you could get a chuckle from a panel […]
No kidding, Harry Bliss. No kidding.Thank goodness comics cover a variety of topics, although right now a substantial portion of them appear to be dedicated to depictions of Barrack Obama as Richard Nixon. Many cartoonists avoid looking at other cartoons for fear of absorbing an idea and later inadvertantly using it without recalling that it wasn’t […]
Dave Coverly does a sort of metagag, in which he takes an exceptionally lame old joke, puts a somewhat ghastly spin on it, and turns it into comedy.The great thing about this panel is that the joke works on two levels: Vulture gifts are a pretty funny idea to begin with, and even funnier with the […]
Nick Anderson with a beautiful fit between symbol and trend. The ah-ha moment must have nearly knocked him off his stool.Save this one for the Pulitzer portfolio, Nick.The upcoming Supreme Court decisions are not going to be so much a test of gay marriage as of the Supreme Court itself. They have a choice between […]
Real Life Adventures, on Hollywood’s tendency to wring every last nickel out of any concept that seems to work.As someone who assigns book reviews to young writers, I’m very much aware of how book publishers pile on a successful theme to attract the teen and preteen market. It’s as though they send dump trucks to […]
And Don Asmussen makes the choosing easy today by executing a flawless triple-play.I’ve mentioned this before, but Bad Reporter sets up a tough challenge for itself, and there are many days when I read it and two are good and then, like watching a long field goal drift to the right, there’s that “doink” as […]
Frazz stirs up memories of real-life Calvinball, and all the games I’d play on my own. Some were dumb, some were inventive, all were fun.And playing alone was pretty much a choice. There were plenty of kids in our neighborhood and most of them were home after school and on weekends. Plus, my little brother […]
Watch Your Head scores with one of those gags that will only work in the hands of one character.That’s not only a hallmark of a good gag, but of a good strip, and Omar is the perfect choice for this one: He’s so above it all, and someone we all know all too well.This week, […]
“Watch Your Head” is one of the most character-driven strips out there, with a cast of a half-dozen students at fictional Oliver Otis University, a thinly disguised stand-in for artist Cory Thomas’s alma mater, Howard.It’s not clear what year everyone is, since they are in Comic Strip Time and, like comic strip students everywhere, begin […]