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Obituary cartoons are usually pretty awful stuff, but Jack Ohman uses the occasion of Sorensen’s death to make a point.

One of the first artists I worked with as an author was Christopher Baldwin, who drew the web comic “Bruno” from 1996 to 2007. There was a period when Bruno’s dark musings on life began to match my own and I decided to take a break from her, but I got over myself at some […]

   Just enough of an exaggeration to be funny. Stone Soup hits the mark again.My mother didn’t carry a change of clothes for herself in her purse, but, boy, the rest of it was in there. She carried a cloth diaper for years after any of us were young enough to need a diaper. That […]

Again, I follow a cartoon that made me think with one that just made me giggle.Except that this strip also made me think, after it made me giggle. But it made me think about technical issues.The name of this strip is “Pros and Cons.” For its first three years, it was called “A Lawyer, A […]

   One of the delights of Cul de Sac is that, unlike the characters in other strips about imaginative little children who live in their own dream world, Alice is not withdrawn, unpopular and ignored by her peers. I do not believe that this means that, unlike other cartoonists, Richard Thompson spent his formative years […]

While doing some research for a serialized novel about a kid during Prohibition, I came across this Dorman H. Smith cartoon, which ran in the Plattsburgh (NY) Daily Press on August 27, 1924. I’m not sure it really qualifies as a “classic” except in terms of its age, but it’s an interesting document of a […]

After all the sweetness of last night’s candy binge, a little curmudgeonly snicker — it’s not plural and there’s no capital “S” — from Non Sequitur.And an award for Wiley’s choice of characters to carry this gag: The person in the strip least likely to actually do anything to materially aid whatever cause he claims […]

This is the last Cleats strip. Bill Hinds has pulled the plug, as of today.I’m sorry to see the strip go, both as someone who coached his own kids in youth soccer, and as someone who has seen his own boys grow up to be coaches.How’d I get into it? Oh, the usual way …I […]

Clay Bennett

  I really don’t intentionally follow each major rant here by running a silly cartoon the next day, though perhaps my mind instinctively seeks one out as part of its recovery-from-deep-thoughts process. Still, Rhymes With Orange has been shown to be an effective source of silliness that can be of significant value when used as […]

Matt Davies gets it right. A very small opening, offering a very small view of a large and messy place.Sherman told a graduating class of young soldiers “War is Hell,” and while there is confusion over exactly how he phrased it, the architect of the theory of total war was no fan of the medium […]

As I’ve noted before, Arlo & Janis’s cat, Ludwig, is a realistic feline. I’d go so far as to say that he is the most realistic pet in all of comicdom, and part of that is evident in his facial expressions today. Cats have an innocent ability to live in the moment that dogs do […]

  Sure, why not?Madam & Eve doesn’t need to exaggerate a whole lot today to make me laff.I still don’t get Twitter. I find Facebook very handy, and, for instance, I follow news of my favorite football team as much there as on the AFC South blog, because Paul Kuharsky announces his updates there via […]

Unfortunately, he won’t keep it up into next month. Cleats, one of my favorite strips, is ending this week, which explains the recent poke Bill Hinds took at unscientific “reader polls.” Follow along as a talented cartoonist wraps up what has been a really good family strip.

A small on-line contretemps last week reminded me of this classic 1930s Fred Pegram cartoon from Punch. Pegram was an illustrator in the first third of the 20th century who did some cartooning but apparently paid most of his bills with book illustrations and advertising work. His style was not breakthrough but it was excellent, […]