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I have nothing to add to this except that it’s Dave Coverly’s “Speed Bump” and it really cracked me up.

(This is a profile I did in 2003 of “Get Fuzzy” creator Darby Conley for the Post-Star of Glens Falls, NY) First, The Post-Star exclusive: Darby Conley now owns a cat. Part of the mystique of “Get Fuzzy” is how autobiographical it seems: A young guy living in Boston with a sweet, dumb dog and […]

Wiley Miller waxes philosophical in today’s Non Sequitur. This is kind of an ongoing theme in a comic that resolutely avoids themes — Wiley uses Pearly Gates settings primarily to reveal disillusionment and the crushing of assumptions about the aforementioned meaning of life. It’s a combination of humor and philosophy that shows up in the […]

Some days, you just need a funny cartoon with a good twist. Hagar the Horrible steps up today, a little better than its average gag and just what I wanted.

  When it first hit the comic pages some 20 years ago, Dilbert was a breath of fresh air, attacking workplace targets that had previously gone more-or-less unassailed. Those targets having been shredded regularly by the strip itself and a host of imitators, it’s become tougher for Scott Adams to come up with fresh work. […]

I don’t often agree with Ted Rall, and it’s certainly worth noting on the occasions I do. I’m all in favor of a vigorous debate over what the facts mean, but I don’t know how you can run a democracy when it becomes impossible to draw a line between obvious facts and obvious nonsense and […]

Comics don’t have to make you laugh. I’ve been impressed with the turnaround in “Doonesbury,” from a funny but kind of snide wise-cracking strip to one that has really turned out some fine storytelling. I think Garry Trudeau has grown up with the rest of his age cohort and has gained some perspective on the […]

I could probably feature “Cul de Sac” three times a week, but today’s is particularly special: Alice brings up a topic, Petey responds to it and Alice actually responds to what he said instead of simply continuing her eternal, external monologue. It is a rarity to be remarked upon.(With some Googling, I could probably find […]

(This is a profile of “Mutts” cartoonist Patrick McDonnell that I did in 2003 for the Post-Star of Glens Falls, NY) To begin with, the rotary dial telephone doesn’t really work.But it’s not entirely out of place, there in the background of the picture,along with the analog clock. The candle, admittedly, is a bit of […]

I’m not going to champion cartoons that you have to be 60 years old to get, except when they crack me up, as was the case with “The Brilliant Mind of Edison Lee” this morning. Anyway, I’m pretty sure John Hambrock isn’t old enough to have many memories of “Beat the Clock.”Although, if he is […]

Looks to me like Heart of the City is about to feature a Mrs. Angelini story. I don’t remember the last time we had one of these, but they’re always worthwhile, as Heart takes a break from her adventures with Dean and her housekeeper provides a flashback story about earlier days.I don’t get to read […]

 Dave Whamond’s Reality Check is probably up to six weeks of hibernation by now; The panel turned 15 at the beginning of the month. And sometime next month, he’ll find out if he won the National Cartoonist Society’s award for Best Gag Cartoon.None of which is why I chose this panel today. It just cracked […]

Arlo & Janis is one of the rare exceptions to the complaint that newspapers are killing themselves by targeting all their cartoons to older readers. Jimmy Johnson is actually a couple of years — two or three — younger than I am, and the strip gets better the closer we come to retirement. Which puts […]

I almost hesitate to point out how well Hilary Price does humor about pets, because I’d hate to see her abandon her other observational humor. This, you will understand, is not about the amount of influence I think I have, but about the amount of superstition I know I have. Besides, she already knows about […]

Brian Anderson’s “Dog Eat Doug” is a quiet little cartoon that regularly provides nice artwork and funny ideas. I suppose it helps if you like dogs and very small children, because it’s clear that he does, and, while he sometimes sends them into fanciful arcs of make-believe, much of the time, he simply chronicles the […]