Tagged as: CSotD Archive

… if I do go to Hell, I hope it’s the one in Sinfest, and that Squig sneaks in from time to time.

Non Sequitur presents us today with a Pearly Gates gag that addresses the theological question, “Can you hear about the doctrine of Limbo without thinking about the dance?” as well as the cosmological question, “Can you hear about the doctrine of Limbo without snickering even if you didn’t think about the dance?”I don’t know Wiley’s […]

The advantage of political cartooning over gag cartooning is that you don’t have to make things up. “Tom the Dancing Bug” only needs to put the news in a funny setting to turn it into humor. In this case, Ruben Bolling simply has the justices speak as if they were perfectly frank about what they’re […]

Today’s “The Flying McCoys” sent me back to Google to look up LLCs again.I’d started to read about them in the past, but the bafflegab generally outweighed the curiosity. This time, I dug in a little harder, and this is what I figured out: (If I’m wrong about any of this, I’m sure someone will […]

Vic Lee’s “Pardon My Planet” with a demented twist on a common phrase.This feature varies between social commentary and this kind of surreal foolishness, with the unifying principle being Lee’s ability to show silent reactions that are often funnier than the punchline. Note that the couple in the background combine body language and facial expression […]

Stuart Carlson is one of many cartoonists commenting on New York’s legalization of same-sex marriage, but one of the few who didn’t simply shout “Hurray,” most with some variation on the “I love NY” icon.Carlson does a nice job of contrasting the exuberant nature of the change with the irrational fear that resists it — […]

Before “Pros & Cons” was called that, it was called “A Lawyer, A Doctor and a Cop.” Here we see the first and third of them in not much of a conversation.Kieran Meehan has a merrily twisted view of reality, but it doesn’t keep him from having created characters with well-established and consistent personalities. Stan, […]

A landmark moment in one of my favorite strips, as Marla, the beleagured assistant manager in “Retail,” gets married.Retail has always maintained a level of reality that makes its occasional moments of whimsy that much more ridiculous. Its hallmark is the undercurrent of fury that creator Norm Feuti clearly carries for the combination of exploitation […]

Are we at the point where I can just say “Michelle,” the way we once just said, “Jackie”?Michelle and the girls have been visiting South Africa, and it’s hard for anyone over 50 not to recall JFK’s quip, “I am the man  who accompanied Jacqueline  Kennedy to Paris, ” except that the president didn’t even come […]

On Tuesday, Gannett laid off 700 people at their papers around the country, in an attempt to save money and maximize short-term profits. Although this sort of short-staffing handcuffs local papers and makes it virtually impossible for them to matter to the people in their own communities, it does have other benefits. In this case, […]

Today’s Bug had me right at the first panel. You don’t get a lot of space to introduce a topic in a comic strip. This is subtle, yet effective. The jack-in-the-box makes it.But the insanity of that abrupt intro masks the fact that the strip makes a profound historical argument: Whatever happened to Occam’s Razor? […]

   Harry Bliss, in his eponymous cartoon, touches a nerve.A good friend moved to Japan to teach at a university there. He said that most Japanese colleges don’t really do a lot of actual instructing so much as they provide a venue for students to meet each other, make contacts and prepare for life after […]

And you thought Richard Thompson only dredged up long-suppressed memories of pre-school!Today’s Cul-de-Sac explores the last day of big-kid school by bringing back tortured memories of the locker bay, with comicdom’s favorite neurotic kid epitomizing the neurotic kid we all become when we think too hard about lockers. It’s a salute to Petey’s limited savoire […]

Steve Kelley on the annual “Boy, Our Kids Are Stupid” scandal, in which we wring our hands over how little our kids know about history and then go back to talking about the important topics of the day. This year, it is Anthony Weiner’s weiner, which continues to resonate throughout the media.(In the news cycle, […]

Joe Martin’s Mr. Boffo is one of several cartoons he does, each a different expression of a very funny world view combined with a talent for build-ups to punchlines like this. The unifying principle is the bland assurance that the speaker is perfectly sane and normal. Even when it’s predictable, it’s funny.And I’ll admit I […]