(Saturday) (today)Deflocked begins a back-to-school arc before anyone else dares, and for a good reason: Jeff Corriveau is riffing on the disappearing summer vacation.It’s getting hard to keep track of the school year. When I was growing up in New York, school started shortly after Labor Day but then dragged on into the third week […]
Summer camp story arcs are generally as predictable as “bear trap in the fireplace” cartoons at Christmas, but Deflocked puts its ascerbic POV to good use today.When my oldest was a wee lad, the Colorado Springs Parks & Rec department had a summer program they called “Tot Lot,” which we laughed at because it was […]
And Don Asmussen makes the choosing easy today by executing a flawless triple-play.I’ve mentioned this before, but Bad Reporter sets up a tough challenge for itself, and there are many days when I read it and two are good and then, like watching a long field goal drift to the right, there’s that “doink” as […]
On the Sunday when three-quarters of the cartoons are about New Year’s, there’s a fair amount of similar themes, but I particularly liked this contrast:Sinfest is often thoughtful to the point of being enigmatic, but I don’t think this piece is particularly hard to appreciate: It’s kind of nice that it’s a webcomic and thus […]
I’ve mentioned a couple of times that Christmas sure brings out the hackwork in cartooning.It’s not surprising, really: Compulsory cartooning rarely results in anything very interesting. That is, after all, how we ended up with a kabillion editorial cartoons of a weeping Statue of Liberty on September 12, 2001 and why, on a considerably lesser […]
My final comment on yesterday’s unscheduled discursion into healthy relationships, via Deflocked: Meanwhile, a technical screw-up allows for an explanation of how Sunday comics work. Here’s how today’s Barney & Clyde looked on GoComics: Strange, no?For those not immersed in the business, here’s what’s up: Printing involves working with CMYK files, meaning that, while a color picture […]
Deflocked comments on something or other. I’m taking a break this weekend; you figure it out. Today’s strip fits in with a stupid, pointless argument I got into on Facebook the other day. Facebook isn’t supposed to be for arguing, but there are a few folks there who set up their pages more like Usenet, […]
Synchronicity happens all the time, but this … holy cannolli …This week’s arc at the Piranha Club:… and meanwhile, over at Deflocked …Here’s the breakdown – Deflocked (which often has fairly long arcs) started the ice cream truck sequence on July 16:… but the notion of an ice-cream-truck-ambulance-crossover only came up today.Meanwhile, Piranha Club, which tends […]
I think this is the first time I’ve revisited a story arc, except for occasionally featuring an update at the bottom of the posting. First time I’ve gone there twice for a full post.But the chocolate milk arc at Deflocked has taken some twists and turns and, while I already did a mini-update a few […]
Yesterday, I added little to Darrin Bell’s cartoon because it would have dulled the point of his commentary.Today, I can add little to Mike Baldwin’s Cornered because there’s nothing much to add except that it really, really cracked me up in the best possible way … after a pause.And then every time I looked at […]
Deflocked takes on one of the oddities of the current political circus.The USDA provides subsidies to schools for lunch programs, and has decided that, in order to qualify for assistance from taxpayers, schools should not add to the health problems of our nation’s children by serving them fatty, sugary, sodium-laden foods.This has been met with […]
Mamet has become a maple producer in this week’s Deflocked.Jeff Corriveau grew up in maple syrup country and, as someone who did the same and has lived in some other maple-producing areas since, I can see hints of his knowing what he’s actually joking about in this story arc.Which may not seem like much, but […]
A twisted little moment from Jeff Corriveau at Deflocked.Today’s cartoon manages to be so very wrong and so very right at the same time.First, let’s deal with the blasphemy issue: Artists do not have to be wonderful their whole lives. It’s perfectly all right to enjoy certain periods of Picasso or Bob Dylan or Marlon […]