Alex is a British comic strip about business, and I’m willing to admit that my years of writing about business, combined with childhood subscriptions to Swift, Eagle and finally Punch may have set me up for this one.However, it’s not so businessy and British that it won’t work for a general audience elsewhere, and today’s […]
May Day celebrations seem a bit muted this year, as Italian cartoonist Enrico Bertuccioli (“Ebert”) notes in this Cartoon Movement panel.It’s nice to know the economy is screwed everywhere and not just in the country that just noted a special centennial celebration. Gosh, it seems like yesterday. Granted, the worldwide collapse is not as dramatic in […]
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 […]
This cartoon by Raul Fernando Zuleta pleases me for a variety of reasons beyond its overall sardonic brilliance.The first is the simple one, which is tying it into the idiotic notion by Facebook people that if a particular sick/crippled/disabled/dying child gets a number of “likes,” some cosmic event will occur. But that’s just foolishness in […]
I like this Kevin Siers panel for the message itself but I’m particularly impressed with his ability to make good use of an odd and viral news story.The story itself is as bizarre in its way as the phenomenon Siers uses it to comment on.With regards to the actual zoo, it took a lot of […]
Black Friday and Cyber Monday, with their pretend-bargains and ginned-up gotta-shop hype, have ended and yet Christmas and portions of Hannukah remain.I recently posted some shopping suggestions for comics fans here and then here, and, if you didn’t look then and you’re shopping now, well, there they are.Now some additional possibilities for shoppers who haven’t […]
I’m still tied up with young journalist workshops. Here are some cartoons I would have blogged about if I’d had a blog about cartoons back when they ran, with dates if I marked them, without if I didn’t. I just kept’em ’cause I liked ’em. I didn’t know I’d ever actually use them for anything. […]
Okay, this is beyond my experience. Heart of the City is in an arc in which Heart’s mom is taking her and her buddy Kat to a One Direction concert, One Direction being, as that link will show you, a for-real androgynous pre-teen pre-fab group.(And let me pause here to give Mark Tatulli props for referencing […]
People love cartoons that strike a personal chord — those are the ones that end up on the fridge — but that usually really means a universal chord, something we can all relate to, or, as people say to cartoonists, “It’s like you’re looking through my window.”A cartoon that actually does strike a personal chord […]
I always hope that people are following at least some of the links here, sometimes because I link to something cool or funny in the way of additional commentary, but first and foremost because I link to the various featured artists and (A) I hope to turn people on to new stuff and (B) it’s […]
Tom the Dancing Bug, with such a complete takedown of Scalia’s comments during arguments for the Voting Rights Act case that I’ve got little to add, except that I hope we get a couple of SC resignations after the current session, or at least before we get a change in the White House.Early would be […]
As CSOTD marks three years and starts a fourth, this Jeff Danziger classic is a good way to open up a post marking the event with some favorite cartoons and a smattering of reflection.The blog began mostly as a reaction to snarky cyber-bullying blogs that tear down comic strips for the amusement of a depressing […]
Bits and pieces today, all fairly lightweight but not entirely silly.I love today’s Heart of the City, because I, too, suffer from being unable to not see the strings. That is, I enjoy Peter Pan, either the classic Mary Martin original or the quite dynamic Cathy Rigby version, but I can never suspend belief to […]
Mark Tatulli and Lio offer a final salute to Cul de Sac, which ends its roughly-five-year run today. And I do not believe that the selection of comic characters left behind was chosen at random, though there are many, many others he might have included in the Old Boys Club.Nor do I believe that today’s […]
Cul de Sac ends its official run next week, though it’s actually been in rerun mode for some time now as friend-of-the-blog Richard Thompson works on the health problems that brought about the strip’s end.Perhaps feeling reflective, or maybe just in one of his frequent Puckish moods, Richard posted some pre-launch Cul de Sac strips […]