There was a time when “Sesame Street” was funny and exciting and as much fun for parents as it was for kids. And then, first, they decided that the exciting part made it too hard for the kids to absorb the lessons, so they slowed it down and ditched all the fast-counting sequences with the […]
When I go through the comics each morning, one of the factors I have to consider is, “Will this make sense to someone who hasn’t been following the story?”For instance, Tank McNamara is in the middle of an arc about drunk driving, and, this being Thursday, it seemed pointless to drag people into it now. […]
You can always get a larger version of the strips here by clicking on the image, but today’s xkcd provides a much larger version off its own site, and I think you’ll want to go there and examine this in some detail. It’s always worthwhile to go there for the mouse-over joke that I can’t […]
The Knight Life is on Day Two of what I hope will be a week-long arc about a job fair that doesn’t offer any jobs. Oh, sorry — “job faire.”It’s over a year since I last walked into an office and sat at a desk, and I can’t say I miss it a whole lot, […]
Edison Lee with a better-than-average gag about overscheduled kids. One thing that makes this strip appealing is that you never know on Monday whether it’s headed into a completely fantastic, surrealistic arc that will involve the space shuttle or some such, or a simple kid-based story about a brighter-than-average little boy. What in some strips […]
At least 20 newspapers declined to carry this Non Sequitur, requesting a rerun instead. In addition, Western Printing, a company that prints Sunday comic sections for smaller papers, refused it.Read it at your peril. It will likely corrupt your soul.
No, no, I understand Mike Thompson’s cartoon.What I don’t get is how you can have a successful “populist” movement that seems to be based on giving rewards to the wealthy and powerful and providing nothing for the common folk. And yet apparently you can.
Frankly, if I hadn’t been tickled by the concept in today’s Non Sequitur, I think the dragon would have sold me anyway. He’s so perfectly reasonable looking! And I’m sure that his cave is already filled with coffeemugs and totebags.I’ll admit it, I love dragons. Probably because, when I was a little boy, my […]
I haven’t run more than one strip as a “Comic Strip of the Day” before and I don’t intend to make a habit of it, the name of the blog seeming to obviously rule against it.But here are two strips that ran today and might as well have been linked from the start. It’s not […]
I’ve been hoping that Matt Bors would pull his Afghanistan cartoons into one place where you could leaf through them in order, but the best I can do is point you to his blog, where they are mixed in with some other things, but there nonetheless.It’s worth the scrolling, because, while Bors is often highly […]
At first glance, today’s F Minus was amusing, but then I started thinking, well, wait a minute, where DID seconds come from? I know about dividing time into years, which took a few tries to get right, and about months, which would make more sense if they were completely lunar, but got caught up in […]
xkcd is the kind of strip where I’m perfectly willing to believe they did the research for this, though I’m a little surprised that “Kafkaesque” isn’t more frequently modified, since it’s a favorite adjective of people who have read little, if any, Kafka, and tends to be thrown around about as indiscriminately as either of […]
When I read that Facebook had gone down last week, I thought, “Maybe some places, but not here.” I thought maybe it had been accidentally been blocked on some influential browser or something. There was certainly no interruption of service that I had noticed.Then I realized when it went down, which just happened to be […]
For the last few months, Pooch Cafe has been in flashback mode on its dailies, starting with Poncho’s litter in utero and moving forward. This week, he was finally adopted, but by a far younger and more carefree owner than we’re used to. Since one of the ongoing jokes in the present day is his […]
Steve Moore’s “In The Bleachers” just turned 25, but that’s not why it’s featured today.Today’s wordless cartoon is excellent not only for the basic concept but for his choice of numbers. Lower wouldn’t really work and higher would be silly. This is perfect.