OUR BLOG ENTRY WILL BEGIN AFTER THIS BRIEF WORD: Last month, Mitt Romney appeared before the NAACP Convention and made some remarks about health care that, perhaps predictably, drew some verbal disagreement from the audience. It was widely reported that he had been booed, but a listen to the video showed only that people disagreed, […]
Wiley Miller plays with fire in today’s Non Sequitur. They’ll get him for suggesting that everyone who claims to be the victim of a conspiracy is cracked or some kind of egghead. (heh heh)Did he jump? Did he fall? Or was he pushed???Uninquiring minds want to know. (Inquiring minds might wonder, but then they’d look into […]
It’s Shark Week, and, in one of comicdom’s great annual unilateral crossovers, Sherman has a starring role.Sherman’s Lagoon is one of my favorite sources for the Bob Newhart-style humor I enjoy, but Jim Toomey (whom I interviewed some years ago) is also a genuine aficianado of ocean life and manages to use his strip from […]
One of my long-time favorite strips is taking advantage of that long-time factor. Here’s yesterday’s Arlo & Janis:We’ll all see, and be happy to do so. I hope it goes for more than a week.On the other hand, it’s possible to get a flashback fix even when he’s not providing one in the current strip. […]
Jeff Danziger points out a potential issue with the selection of Paul Ryan as runningmate.His heartless budget proposal will play to a certain dogmatic segment of the population and not a small one. The past few years have demonstrated beyond any doubt that there are a lot of people who will accept a simplistic solution, […]
I wasn’t drawn to my father’s copy of “Male Call” as early as I was to his small collection of figure studies. I guess the subtlety of Miss Lace is wasted on those whose lust is — or remains — at a six-year-old level.One classy dame, however, and Milton Caniff did a lot with Lace […]
Sufi Comics is an entertaining but thought-provoking piece of work by two brothers from Dubai, Mohammed Ali Vakil & Mohammed Arif Vakil, that reminds me of the Analects of Confucius and zen in general, a playful, gentle form of teaching that puts the burden of contemplation, rightfully, upon the student.I know that Sufis have their own […]
I suppose I was in elementary school when “Rebel Without A Cause” came on TV. I wasn’t old enough to care about the movie, but I was most impressed with the “chicken” scene where Buzz’s sleeve gets caught in the car’s door handle and he plunges to his death.Several decades later, I am most impressed […]
If you haven’t been to “Retail” lately, you’re probably out of the loop.Here’s the necessary update: Marla is not only back from maternity leave but has been promoted to store manager, which might be good except that her former boss, Stuart, is now district manager but has set up his office in the local store, so […]
Tom Tomorrow on inevitability and futility.I’m not 100 percent sure this message of passivity is being preached so much by “experts,” however, because I’m no longer sure who the “experts” are anymore, and I don’t think that’s because of my being out of the loop. I am out of the loop, however, to the extent of […]
Slowpoke’s latest, in which Jen Sorensen is as puzzled as I am over the amazing Mom from my hometown who keeps discovering things the experts haven’t figured out.I’m a little — but only a little — puzzled by this strange intersection of Madison Avenue and “1984,” whereby advertisements are, at least to my mind, targeted […]
Believe It Or Not!Pab Sungenis, of “The New Adventures of Queen Victoria,” created a gag about zombies that was both fresh and humorous!Believe It Or Not!In BC, Mason and Mick Mastroianni wrote a “Hunger Games” gag that actually demonstrated some basic familiarity with the story!Believe It Or Not!Kevin Kallaugher drew a cartoon about the presidential race […]
Because he makes money and y’all didn’t. Duh.The Argyle Sweater hits the mark a fair number of times, but rarely in a way that inspires commentary. Today’s does, in large part because it comes up by happenstance in the wake of the conservative show of feigned puzzlement over Chick-fil-A, a purposeful stupidity that is also regularly […]
It’s nice to see a political cartoon tackle a mainstream issue that impacts someone under 60. Before I agree or disagree with Matt Bors on this one, let’s pause to consider that most cartoons advocating on behalf of people under 30 are either so alternative-oriented that 90 percent of young adults wouldn’t identify with them, […]
Today’s Rudy Park reminds me of a guy named Bob whom I worked with, back in 1972. You have to realize that, 40 years ago, the veterans had not yet learned not to tell their stories, and both Bob and Dan, a Marine recently returned from Vietnam who was a bartender at the restaurant, would […]