Pour yourself a bowl of Chocolate Frosted Sugar Bombs, because I’m not in the mood for discussing important things today.I didn’t guffaw at the joke — It’s okay but not mind-bending — but I liked the center panel a lot and I also thought Hammie’s shrug was well captured.Even on a frivolous day, if you […]
I’m going to take the risk of Dear Leader making up his mind in the next 24 hours and let the political cartoonists catch up a bit. Meanwhile, Doonesbury reruns are in 2003 and this one makes a point I made yesterday: If we’re going to throw another generation into the Mixmaster, let’s make it […]
When we were reading Hamlet in college junior year, the professor asked the purpose of the gravedigger scene. We went around the seminar table talking about comic relief and the need to ease the tension and onward and so forth and the wisdom flowed like fine wine.Then he pointed out that Shakespeare was maintaining a […]
One of our local towns has quit collecting recyclables because of a price increase by the trash hauler, but Herbert points out a level of futility that overshadows the practice anyway, particularly in cardboard and paper, which are ruined by grease or moisture.This not only means that pizza boxes (and her hamburger clamshell) are not […]
Mamet satirizes a growing sense that certain politicians have no idea of how real life works. It’s funny that Mamet can’t tell a credit card from a library card, but not so funny that the president of the United States thinks you have to show identification to purchase groceries. And he specified photo ID, so […]
This is funny to start with, but also sparks a memory of a woman I went out with very briefly, shortly after both of our divorces, but long enough after mine that I could detect subtle warning signs.Like the fact that she and her now-ex had been building a semi-custom townhouse which originally had a […]
Another of those “no politics” days where you can’t avoid some politics. I like the notion of anything with a foreign country in its name being more expensive, and the idea of companies charging tariffs on things that shouldn’t have tariffs is funny.Except if it happens, and maybe it did and maybe it didn’t. A […]
Wiley is more of a gadfly than a prescription writer, but he offers an appealing comparison between the muskrats, who have no idea what they’re doing, and a restaurant hiring a chef who can’t cook. That would be a really good way to drive your own restaurant out of business, which provides a clue as […]
Christmas Eve, that is. Not to be confused with the Turgenev novel, though his portrait of over-educated Russian intellectuals dithering around as the rest of Europe explodes in revolution seems sadly relevant at the moment. But we’ll get back to that, and, if we don’t, it will get back to us. As Fiona Katauskas says, […]
Andertoons (AMS) takes a daring step, making a joke based on the reader having a good vocabulary, but which is funnier if the reader has just enough of a good vocabulary to know what the word means and to feel somewhat proud of that.That is, if ubiquitous/ubiquity were more common words, there’d be nothing funny […]
When we were reading Hamlet junior year, the professor asked why there was the gravedigger scene, and we all dutifully responded about easing the tension, to which he said, “Shakespeare had a clown in his troupe and had to write something for him.”I don’t know if I accept that, but for either reason, here’s some […]
Today’s Deflocked (AMS) happened to hit on this topic at just the right moment to jump from the funnies into the editorial section. CBS has announced that its moderators will not correct blatant lies in tomorrow night’s VP debate. This will allow the discussion to be a game of “Is so!” and “Is not!” instead […]
I think today’s Deflocked (AMS) is largely an example of lead time. When the first cell phone bans in school were announced, editorial cartoonists leapt to depict disheartened children, though my own suspicion was that the kids would largely shrug it off and either adjust to life in the here and now or find new […]
A bunch of funny stuff, today and in the past several days, and well-timed given the level of not-funny stuff we’ve all been dealing with. My definition of funny has less to do with pies in the face than with things that make you laugh because you can relate to them. (My sympathies to those […]
Pia GuerraDavid RoweA pair of rapid responses to last night’s debate: Guerra from the Canadian West Coast, Rowe from Australia, but let’s wait to see what cartoonists who work at a more deliberate pace have to say about it, not that either of these is hasty with their graphics or their thinking.IMHO, Guerra exaggerates what […]