Pat Oliphant on the Donald. As always, Oliphant is pithy with a dash of mean, but enough absurdity to provide a laugh alongside the commentary. Not everyone can do that.And we may need it.Howard Kurtz began “Reliable Sources” Sunday thusly: “We’ve had a good time, I have to admit, poking fun at Donald Trump with […]
Arlo and Janis is in the early stages of an apparently long-term story arc in which Gene and Mary Lou take up farming on land her father owns. I’m particularly intrigued by this development because Jimmy Johnson usually cartoons about (1) middle-age, (2) social fads and (3) boats and the shore, with occasional strips inspired […]
No moment, however fleeting, should go unblogged, tweeted, Facebooked and otherwise memorialized in media which will be gone by the end of the week. An observation from Sherman’s Lagoon.I went to the Paint & Pixel Festival in Northampton yesterday, with my comical sidekick Liz , but decided against going as a blogger and decided to simply […]
Cul de Sac presents the perfect strip for Saturday morning, the day with no rules. Only atheist grownups can sleep in on Sunday, so the social contract declares that the TV people will watch your kids Saturday morning, if you promise not to get up and see what’s going on down there.With the right promotion, […]
The idea in today’s Non Sequitur that a network news organization would report on something this ridiculous on the basis of a single tweet is, of course, ludicrous. But that’s what humor is about: Taking reality and exaggerating it to an absurdity.In real life, they wouldn’t report on it until it had been re-tweeted at […]
Today’s Loose Parts could be titled “loosely wrapped” but then Dave Blazek’s panel rarely seems to be very tightly wrapped even on an average day.Plastic wrap is one of those inexplicable things that women can do. It’s not as intriguing as when their arms disappear inside their sweaters and then return clasping a bra […]
I’ve often praised “Cul de Sac” because of Richard Thompson’s ability to recreate what it was like to be 5 years old.Let us now praise “Watch Your Head” because of Cory Thomas’s ability to recreate what it was like to be 19 years old.Most days, that makes for some funny stuff. I can look back […]
Not much to add to this Jen Sorensen cartoon. It’s not that the whole “hopey-changey” thing doesn’t seem to be working out. It’s the “let’s work together” thing that is seeming delusional. Obama is like the party to a bad marriage who hopes, if he just gives in to one more thing, it’ll all work […]
I have a feeling this arc in Retail is going to be worth following.I sort of applied to work at Borders a little over a year ago, during the period I was out of work. I say “sort of” because I saw a poster at our local Borders saying they needed help and giving an […]
Stuart Carlson, on the new Bright Young Man of the moment.I heard Louis Josephson, CEO of Riverbend Community Mental Health in Concord, on New Hampshire Public Radio’s “The Exchange” Wednesday, on the topic of cuts to mental health treatment funding. They do have the show archived, but it isn’t formatted to allow you to jump […]
It’s All About You (Tony Murphy) Watch Your Head (Cory Thomas) Candorville (Darrin Bell)
Nemi has been on a roll recently, as our favorite goth chick falls in love with a fellow who, so far, is mostly good-looking. Hey, that and ice cream and what else do you need?I do wish Metro would hire someone who knew how to update the site, or someone who gave a damn and […]
The brilliant synchronicity of Candorville: Darrin Bell comes out with this strip just as the Village Voice releases its “comics issue” which I put in quotes because they apparently aren’t paying the cartoonists whose work appears in it. Or not all of them. Or something. Anyway, it’s an issue.The saving grace is that, in this […]
The Brilliant Mind of Edison Lee takes on the issue of balance. There was a moment back around 2008 when everyone was quoting Daniel Patrick Moynihan’s “You’re entitled to your own opinions, but you’re not entitled to your own facts.”That moment has passed. We’ve moved on to “Stupid is as stupid does,” which relies on […]
Yesterday, I (finally!) went over to White River Junction to take Librarian Caitlin McGurk up on her offer of a look around the Schulz Library at the Center for Cartoon Studies. And I brought you along!(She didn’t know you were coming, so this is very much off-the-cuff, unedited and as it happened. And more fun […]