Timing is everything in comedy.I was notified Friday that a client had direct-deposited a substantial amount of money to my bank account, but apparently it didn’t actually get posted to the account before close of business Friday, and so, what with the MLK holiday today, I won’t see it until tomorrow.Which I understand and which […]
I was kind of hoping to lessen the political stuff in the mix, but today’s Candorville is irresistable.Darrin Bell must have some short deadlines, but, in any case, he rolled the dice and won with this one, since Cain has not yet manned up and faced the situation. A fine, fine job of anticipating the […]
Darrin Bell brings a deft, expert touch to Candorville: He manages to take some of his own experiences and then fictionalize them until they are universal.The required balancing act is the key to successful fiction, and something that often comes up in the plethora of semi-autobiographical strips that are out there, mostly on the web […]
No kidding.Darrin Bell recently did some right-to-the-edge deadline work on the death of bin Laden, and he’s done it again in today’s Candorville. But, even getting his lead time down to a minimum, he had to time the strip to hit when the laughter was over, but before the coverage let up.One can only hope […]
Darrin Bell treads some interesting lines with his strip, “Candorville.” From what little I know of his personal life from Facebook and suchlike, it does, in some ways, reflect what he’s going through, but not in a journalistic sense. Rather than recounting real-life events in the strip, he seems to use them to inform the […]