Today’s Baby Blues breaks out of what has been a slump of yeah-I-get-it routine kid and parent gags. I don’t know that it’s a case of Scott and Kirkman phoning it in so much as a case of Zoe and Hammy getting to an age that is pretty common for cartoon strip kids. I think […]
Signe Wilkinson cuts to the heart — and lungs and other bodily parts — of the Japanese radiation scare.This isn’t to entirely downplay the potential impacts of poorly designed, poorly managed nuclear generators, but, with the initial and perfectly rational concerns over the Fukushima plant answered by the successful prevention of a core meltdown, the […]
As North Africa and the Middle East surge with calls for political reform, and as the election problems in Cote d’Ivoire burst into deadly violence, French cartoonist Bernard Bouton offers this panel at Cartoon Movement, a relatively new site that gathers political cartoon commentary from a variety of global cartoonists.International cartoons tend to be a […]
Rina Piccolo, who draws “Tina’s Groove” and is one of the “Six Chix,” has for the past year also been drawing “Velia, Dear” and, on what I believe if the strip’s first birthday, enters comics history by depicting the main character being groped. Or maybe not.Not that Velia isn’t being groped. She certainly is. The […]
A classic today, in part because part of my out-of-town trip this week involved a teacher workshop in which I asked why children’s historical fiction so often turns out to be both bad fiction and bad history?The worst of these dreadful books are what I call “The Twins Go Back In Time,” in which a […]
Pearls Before Swine creator Stephan Pastis has extended his brand by creating a rude personality that some people find tiresome but many, many others find hilarious. His blog is a compilation of posts that mostly reinforce the concept of a rude, insensitive boor who often offends people without realizing it, and he has made a […]
I’m out of town and won’t be able to post a Comic Strip of the Day.com today.However, this website should keep you out of trouble until I’m back. In fact, it may get you into trouble, depending on what else you were supposed to accomplish today.For comics fans, or Broadway fans, or artists, or photographers […]
I disagree with what Matt Bors has to say, but I will defend to the death this absolutely brilliant cartoon. And I will laff my @ss off while doing it.You get a “Genius Pass” on this one, Matt. Don’t push it.
“Rhymes with Orange” is one of a handful of strips that I have to consciously avoid letting take over this site and appearing four or five times a week. I’m pretty sure that Hilary Price is every bit as funny as I think she is, but I’m very sure that her mind works in […]
Non Sequitur got a genuine laugh, rather than a “that’s pretty good,” out of me this morning. Now, of course, having enjoyed it, I feel compelled to analyze why I enjoyed it.Sort of the way a puppy gets a nice squeaky toy and then tears it apart to find, and destroy, the squeaker. It’s how […]
“Guts: A Young Adult Television Fiasco” comes courtesy of a tip at the Comics Reporter, a website I hit every morning which is much more comic-book than comic-strip oriented but is full of fascinating stuff. (This is the first page of the memoir; hit the link to read the whole thing. It’s long enough to […]
As noted before, “The New Adventures of Queen Victoria” has the advantage of being a web strip and thus being able to respond more quickly to developing news.But I doubt even Pab Sungenis was expecting this late-breaking boost to his punchline, in which we discover that the NATO push against Libya’s attacks on its own […]
Grand Avenue on the scourge of grandparents with cameras. Which could also be the scourge of parents with cameras, except that Grand Avenue is about a grandmother raising a pair of twins.Whoever does it, there are adults who manage without a great deal of effort to teach kids to Stop, Turn and Grin whenever someone […]
The current story arc in “Retail” has been so tightly paced that, having not featured it at the start, I’ve been loathe to suggest dropping in midway. However, I think it’s worth doing, and you could even go back to the 15th and start at the beginning.The arc is about Marla taking a day off […]
In the current Cul de Sac arc, Petey succumbs to peer pressure and agrees to sign up for soccer, poor lad. Not only does this jolt our little Oblomov out of his bed, but it puts him squarely in the sunshine, among grass and peers.No good can come of this.When my boys were boys, I […]