This past March, artist Joe Staton and writer Mike Curtis took over Dick Tracy and brought it back from a level of conceptual chaos that had gradually gone beyond appealing camp into unreadable nonsense.Over the past half year, they’re returned it to a basic cops-and-robbers strip with shorter, more coherent plot lines and villains […]
Okay, he’s no Chris Christie. He’s no Lou Christie. He isn’t even Julie Christie.But he is the savior I’ve been hoping would return and enter the presidential race: Kevin the Lost Bunny of the Apocalypse, and now he’s back in Prickly City and ready to redeem the nation, I’m sure much as you would […]
Rhymes with Orange is on the short list of comics that would be here every day if I didn’t handicap my choices. This one breaks through because I have an uncanny ability to watch brilliant creative ideas drift off into the ether and to see entire days on which I have time to be productive […]
Derf Backderf on the direct correlation between television and later life. (As always, click on the cartoon for a larger version)Or perhaps more specifically, on the correlation between vacuous-but-well-promoted scientific studies and screaming headlines. If the researchers in this study had used a less popular fast-paced cartoon, their study would have languished in the lower […]
It was pointed out to me that I’ve featured a lot of political cartoons lately. Well, the blog is about what comics and cartoons have struck me, and I guess I’ve been struck a lot by the political situation lately: The economy, of course, and also the nascent presidential campaign.And in particular the whole thing […]
I’m not sure what happened in Connecticut that spurred Matt Davies to draw this cartoon, but I’m not going to Google for it because it really doesn’t matter. My understanding is that most states, and the FBI, are in a situation where their labs are simply not equipped to handle the flow of evidence. Procedures […]
Poor Cory. Got distracted by a long-distance relationship and blew his scholarship.Watch Your Head is a little like Theater Lab, in that you get to see things you wouldn’t see in the main stage productions and, however unconventional they may occasionally seem, they’re always interesting and worth checking out.Cory Thomas is willing to try things […]
I think I’m prepared to risk $200 on the theory that the universe is indeed undergoing some kind of fundamental shift when xkcd and I are on the same page on an issue of science, since I almost never understand the geeky math/science gags in this strip.I don’t understand science much beyond the general philosophical […]
Matt Bors points out the critical role of empty rhetoric in the presidential race.”Creating jobs” is a nice topic because, not only do we have a lot of people out of work, and a lot of people working at jobs that don’t quite pay their bills, but we seem to have come to an agreement […]
Technical storytelling praise first: That final panel is brilliant, combining his horror at what he has done to this poor woman with the triumphant little “got what I wanted” in the lower right corner, which shows some mixed emotions when compared to the larger captioning in the box. In fact, the entire panel is a […]
Slowpoke makes a particularly spot-on point in a time when the rationalizations for selfishness and cruelty are getting a lot of friendly air time and Internet play.The libertarian notion that people will take care of people relies on two utterly false premises:1. That we live in a society that values and fosters community. Libertarians believe […]
What makes Cul de Sac so special is that Richard Thompson doesn’t just remember what happened when you were a kid, but how it felt.This doesn’t always translate into individual strips that make you fall out of your chair. Last week, he did an arc in which Alice insisted on riding the umbroller to the […]
A twisted little moment from Jeff Corriveau at Deflocked.Today’s cartoon manages to be so very wrong and so very right at the same time.First, let’s deal with the blasphemy issue: Artists do not have to be wonderful their whole lives. It’s perfectly all right to enjoy certain periods of Picasso or Bob Dylan or Marlon […]
Jeffrey Koterba hits the nail on the head. Any grandfather who is primarily worried about what Social Security will be like in 50 or 60 years simply isn’t paying attention.I do wish the headlines on that paper weren’t solely about the economy, because that’s not all of it, though our grandkids will have to figure […]
Dave Coverly is giving me flashbacks with today’s Speed Bump.When our first was born, we lived about an hour away from my in-laws and across the country from my own folks. It was like living on a well-stocked desert island — we had total control of the baby’s input. Shopping was one of my […]