Brace yourself for negativity. The flood of “Fred is Dead” cartoons is about to hit.But one of the first out of the gate was this refreshingly decent take by Joe Heller.”How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world,” Portia observed.Joe has it right, but, based on […]
Mike Thompson takes a poke at the chickenhawks who would like to see us take on a major nuclear power because, y’know, it would make us more macho and stuff.I’ve recently-and-often said that I don’t much like chickenhawks, and I like them even less since the draft ended, since now they aren’t even required to […]
As it happens, the first “oooh, I like that one!” of this morning’s trip through the funnies came at Rhymes With Orange. Little did I expect RWO to set the agenda for the day.Hilary Price specializes in wry, observational humor. This is not funny, but it’s a very good observation and needs to be said.Often. And […]
If you haven’t put the Nib on your regular diet … well, thanks, because it means you have to come here for clues of when you should go there.But you’re probably missing some comics that would tickle your fancy but don’t particularly tickle mine.Not to suggest that my fancy isn’t wonderfully ticklish, mind you. But […]
The whole issue of St Patrick’s Day is fraught, given that it grew to prominence as a kind of civil rights march in the era of Know-Nothing bigotry and morphed into a nationalist event each year, raising money for the liberation of Ireland but has since somehow became the Stepan McFetchit monstrosity it is today.I […]
One of the rules around here is that an editorial cartoon is “live” until the artist publishes the next one, and that’s good, because I’ve been pondering this Matt Bors cartoon for a couple of days.He often makes me think, because, while there are cartoonists with whom I almost always agree and some with whom […]
(Drew Sheneman) (Clay Bennett)There are plenty of serious issues out there and plenty of depressing cartoons addressing them, and to hell with it. Drew Sheneman and Clay Bennett go for the chuckles, proving that even silliness can be used as a weapon.I addressed the “presidential dignity” strawman two days ago and wouldn’t have come back […]
It’s pretty nerdy out there, on a holiday that I think can only be celebrated in the US of A, with Frazz the best of those marking it in the funny pages.We’ll have to make a much bigger deal of this in two years, assuming we’ve all recovered from the whole Y2K scare enough by […]
Thankyouthankyouthankyou Signe Wilkinson, for allowing this topic to be addressed without a violation of the Prime Directive.We only show good cartoons here. We don’t mock the off-key, “don’t you people read the papers?” commentaries that should embarrass their creators, though the temptation does become almost overwhelming at times when the facts are easily found but […]
Bug Martini either works on wicked-tight deadlines or stumbled into this topic just at the right moment: Keith Richards is now writing a children’s book.As mentioned recently, I read to my own kids and have read to my grandkids. And I know the feeling of having a small child come up with a book and […]
Dave Kellett on what may be the most annoying feature of an increasingly annoying Internet. As it happens, I ranted about LinkedIn almost exactly a year ago. I signed up because everyone said you had to sign up, then realized there was no real point in it and tried to escape, but, like Sheldon’s grandfather, I […]
Kal cuts through to the core yet again.He uses a complex, multipanel approach here to mock the incoherence and inconsistency of GOP attacks with a clarity others have failed to achieve. And he’s funny without cracking any actual jokes beyond the overall conceit, which, combined with the right art, is very funny indeed.Maybe it’s because […]
Good morning, Rhymes with Orange and, yes, that’s what day it is.I shut off my cell phone last night because it would have reset for Daylight Saving Time and then woken me up at an hour at which I did not wish to wake up. I fretted over the possibility of posting late and then […]
Mr. Fitz is in an arc for Read Across America that focuses on The Forbidden Practice: Reading For Pleasure.As noted often before, most problems with testing and curricula have more to do with Idiocy in High Places than with the actual intent of the reformers, but that’s a bit irrelevant to the kids who get […]
In his nearly-eponymous strip, Harry Bliss raises an issue that has been on my mind for a very long time but happened to surface recently.There are all kinds of issues to sort out within the context of having children later in life.The financial ones are kind of weird to me, because I’ve never much felt […]