Today’s Bizarro comes about week after I had one of those visits to the doctor where you have to take something and then sit around waiting for it to kick in, during which time I read a copy of “Field and Stream,” which I hadn’t read since my days as a kid in the barbershop.I’ve said […]
Jack Ohman notes the 53rd anniversary of the Kennedy assassination with several postings on Facebook, and people have been chiming in with their own memories of the day. Aside from rekindling my own memories — I was in eighth grade — it of course brought to mind this classic Mauldin cartoon, which he dashed out […]
Gonna start today’s short-takes with Hagar the Horrible because it sparks the best rant.To start with, I like the strip because the term “Viking meal” takes me back to my Year of Living on Campus, when someone would occasionally declare a Viking meal at the dininghall, meaning that we were expected to eat without implements […]
With today’s Strange Brew, John Deering may be closer to the truth than he intended.I mean, this is a funny joke, and one must never dismiss the role humor plays in cartooning.But then, too, one shouldn’t dismiss the role truth plays in humor.Let’s overthink this together!The Odyssey goes back about 2800 years. The thing about […]
You’d think that Jef Mallett, noted endurance athlete, overall health freak and occasional wearer of Spandex, would join in the cartoonists’ chorus of routinely decrying hunting.But he’s a native Michigander and a bluecollar guy at heart and I suspect he grew up with an understanding of where it all fits into local lifestyles and economics, […]