Today’s triple-feature starts out innocently enough, in Between Friends: Kids take for granted the technology they have known most of their lives.Admittedly, it’s a bit of a stretch to assume Danny doesn’t know people who don’t have multiple cell phones (grandparents?). But, even if he wouldn’t likely be unaware of the concept of a home with […]
In today’s Non Sequitur, Wiley correctly points out the absurdity of whateverthehell is going on the minds of some gentlemen, many of whom may be Republicans. I’m making no generalities, no assumptions, no accusations.After all, it’s not fair to assume, for example, that the majority of members of the Augusta National Golf Club are Republicans. It […]
It’s been just over a year since Joe Staton and Mike Curtis took over and revitalized the venerable Dick Tracy franchise, and they’ve really hit a nice stride with shorter arcs and villains that are just evil enough to be villains and just silly enough to be fun. Any nitwit can create a hero or a leading […]
Okay, here is Lucas Turnbloom’s strip “Imagine This” for today:… and here is the little summary of the strip’s premise that runs on the GoComics site:Some adults wistfully wonder what became of the imaginary friends of their childhood. Not Darin. His are sitting on the couch, too-constant companions sharing every strange moment of his cheerfully […]
I don’t know the nature of the treatments Richard Thompson was recently undergoing, but one of the side effects evidently was the ability to see into the near future, or possibly the far distant past or perhaps to eavesdrop on editorial meetings at Nature Magazine.Whatever the case, he is back at the helm of Cul […]
Keith Knight, in (Th)ink, brings up what seems like an obvious contradiction. Or paradox. Or simple case of hypocrisy. Joel Pett elaborates on the theme, taking it out of the courtroom and into the streets, or, at least, onto the steps of the courthouse.Most commentators seemed to have locked on to the broccoli thing, with […]
I’ve featured Sarah Laing’s blog enough times that I hesitate before citing it again simply because I suppose that, if you like this sort of thing, you’ve got it bookmarked for regular visits on your own. And if you don’t, well, then today turns into “Is he going on about her again?”Indeed he is, because […]
Thomas Yeates debuted yesterday as the new artist for Prince Valiant. I tend to be more prone to dissect stories than go into detail on artwork, but the art has always been a critical element in Prince Valiant.Yeates (I find) has drawn swords before, not like Mercutio but in the sense relevant to this blog. […]
Tom Toles, with a retrospective of sorts that ought to scare some sense into those who would rather not vote at all than vote for a candidate with whom they don’t agree on every item, or who doesn’t do exactly everything they hoped he would.Message to the Purists: Someone is going to get elected, whether […]
Jimmy Margulies with a commentary on the Pope’s visit to Cuba. It is a genuinely rare moment when a political cartoon makes you think and also makes you laugh. Generally, one aspect is sacrificed for the other.He got’em both.And he got’em good, because, despite all the people who got on boats or something else that […]
So say we all, Your Highness.And well-timed, as Facebook today enacts the mandate that a graphic system which worked just fine must now be replaced by one that does not.One of the challenges in the on-line world is leaving things alone. It was easy in the days of print and other “hard media”: The thing […]
It’s not remarkable to find politics in a political strip, and Prickly City is a political strip, one of a couple of attempts to find a responsible opposing voice to Doonesbury.Which quest has posed two major problems: One is the assumption that Doonesbury invariably presents the “liberal” point of view, and I put “liberal” in “quotation […]
A consumer tip from xkcd along with its own disclaimer in the form of a punchline. And, as always, you should go back to the site for the roll-over gag.”Gag” being operative in this discussion of Cadbury Eggs, which are kind of fun but in a candy-corn sense of “Okay, you’ve celebrated the season. Now go […]
Today’s Rhymes With Orange is sort of a bathetic response to yesterday’s diatribe on the importance of alone-time. (I thought I was making up that word, but I looked it up and it actually exists. Well, good. It ought to.)Hilary Price celebrates the eccentricities of the inner life better than anybody in the business, and […]
It’s All About You may have to go on my list of comics I have to resist putting on here too often.Today’s strip, however, is about something that concerns me and, although I’ve touched on it in other contexts, I don’t know that I’ve addressed this full face: We really are “amusing ourselves to death,” […]