Well, timing is everything and sometimes it’s nothing, but you’re probably better off for it. I just got “Waiting for Superman” from Netflix but haven’t watched it yet, which forestalls a long rant about this Signe Wilkinson cartoon.But it doesn’t preclude a shorter one which will be quite long enough, I’m sure.She’s right, of […]
This would be a good time to dip into Dick Tracy for a few weeks and see how you like it.The strip had been drawn by Dick Locher since 1983, but he has just retired and handed it over to a new team, artist Joe Staton and writer Mike Curtis, longtime fans of the 80-year-old […]
Sometimes stupid is what you wanted, and today’s Sherman’s Lagoon is a really stupid comic strip that gave me a chance to write a really stupid headline.It was a near thing. Given the purported location of Sherman’s Lagoon, it would perhaps be more logical to suspend the fan from a dugong rather than a manatee, […]
Yesterday, the House pushed through a bill defunding public broadcasting, in an effort to make a grandstanding ploy to energize their nutbase. The bill probably won’t even get a vote in the Senate, much less pass.I can relate to today’s Knight Life strip, though, because we just went through another pledge drive here. Yet another […]
Judging from yesterday’s comments, it is widely felt that there is no job as humiliating as not having a job.Okay, well, let’s just let Bug ratchet things up a little here …
Derf doesn’t say what this Statue of Liberty clown was selling, but it’s almost certainly Liberty Tax Service, a franchise that pulls this cheesy stunt all across the country.Except that the guy wouldn’t get the job if he were just going to stand there looking humiliated. The Liberty Tax signholders are supposed to dance and […]
The 6-days-a-week flashback continues at Pooch Cafe, telling the tale of Poncho’s puppyhood. The current arc not only shows his first encounter with Carmen, who we all (except Poncho-puppy) know is destined to be Chazz’s wife and, thus, Poncho’s rival for his affections, but it’s also his first close-up experience of cats, of which she […]
Non Sequitur on the disconnect between what people say they want and what they want.A lot of politics involves telling people what they want to hear, or telling them things in a way that makes them think that’s what they wanted.For the Fidel Castros, Moammar Ghadafis and Mahmoud Amahdinijads, that means keeping them from […]
Confession: Most days, I compile the CSTOD.com posting first thing in the morning, with a goal of getting it online no later that 6:30 a.m. Eastern Time. But when I saw Jimmy Margulies’s cartoon the night before, and knowing that the time change would make posting on time difficult, I went ahead and posted before […]
Yesterday, I promised that, if any cartoons about the disaster in Japan managed to rise above the level of weeping samurai, you’d see it here.Jimmy Margulies, you insensitive lout! Where’s your social conscientiousness?Nice work.
When Wisconsin’s GOP pulled that razzle-dazzle trick the other night, I was reminded of the famous but apparently apocryphal quote from Admiral Yamamoto following the attack on Pearl Harbor about having awakened a sleeping giant. I may not have been the only person for whom it resonated, as Mike Luckovich draws on the overall concept […]
Monty has been sitting in a coffeehouse all week, writing great literature on his laptop. In most strips, I use “all week” to mean a story arc that has gone on all week, but in this case, I’m pretty sure he’s been going back every day, because he’s very serious about writing. On a laptop […]
The ongoing tale of Lemont’s college crush picks up a little speed today at Candorville. Darrin Bell is a deft-enough storyteller that you know he’s not going to make the fatal mistake of ever letting Lemont and Susan get together, and it would be just as bad to let Lemont realize that Susan isn’t just […]
Speaking, as we were yesterday, of strips that you need to read for awhile to get, here’s a chance to get in on the groundfloor of a continuity webstrip.Terry Laban, otherwise known as the husband in the husband-and-wife team that creates “Edge City,” has launched a webcomic called “Muktuk Wolfsbreath: Hardboiled Shaman,” that will update […]
“Watch Your Head” is one of the most character-driven strips out there, with a cast of a half-dozen students at fictional Oliver Otis University, a thinly disguised stand-in for artist Cory Thomas’s alma mater, Howard.It’s not clear what year everyone is, since they are in Comic Strip Time and, like comic strip students everywhere, begin […]