Can’t relate to this Rhymes With Orange too directly because we only use the ATM, and the dog doesn’t expect food until he sees a person. On the other hand, going to the coffeeshop’s driveup leaves him disappointed indeed, since you don’t get french fries with a cup of coffee, and our routine is that […]
It’s an appropriate time of year to ask the question, “Quo vadis?” In Scott Stantis, the Chicago Tribune at long last found the right cartoonist to replace the late Jeff MacNelly: Stantis not only proves that a conservative can be funny, but that you can be thoughtful, even reflective, without having to give up your […]
Normally, once I point out an interesting arc, that’s it. Readers follow it if they want to, or they don’t, and I move on.But today’s Pooch Cafe cracked me up, so we’re gonna talk about this arc some more. Sue me. In case you think Paul Gilligan is just being silly, let me tell you that […]
Alix, the younger daughter in Stone Soup, has been going through a transformation this summer into what promises to be a bright, curious little girl who, I presume, will provide a contrast to her older, more slacker-like sister. What I particularly like about the move is that we’ve already established that she’s a funny kid […]
Brad Diller’s salute to marital empathy and engagement in Funday Morning struck me at the right moment. I’ve been streaming Netflix while doing dishes recently, and, in particular, the “American Experience” series on presidents. Apparently, finding a spouse who even knows what you do for a living, much less gives a rat’s patootie about it — […]
I love a good barroom joke, and I love a good barroom-pickup joke even more. And I love dogs, so today’s The Other Coast was right down the ol’ pipeline for me.There’s some inaccuracy in this, if you can imagine a cartoonist veering from 100 percent accuracy simply to get a laff. Microchips give you a […]
Today’s Rhymes With Orange is sort of a bathetic response to yesterday’s diatribe on the importance of alone-time. (I thought I was making up that word, but I looked it up and it actually exists. Well, good. It ought to.)Hilary Price celebrates the eccentricities of the inner life better than anybody in the business, and […]
Dog Eat Doug is at its best when it offers up a small slice of semi-realistic kid-and-dog solidarity.Don’t get me wrong: I like it all the time. But these moments rise above.When I was growing up, we had this Rube Goldberg-style wooden highchair that, if you swapped it around this way and that, would become […]
Well, not quite new, since this is Episode Two of The Conjurers, a weekly on-line strip by Brian Anderson that updates Mondays, but Episode One is only a click away, so catching up is no problem.Brian also does the very different syndicated strip “Dog Eat Doug,” which, I think, proves nothing except that it’s possible […]
Here’s a heads up to a potential development over at Baby Blues: The impending arrival of a puppy at the MacPherson household.The strip began when Jerry Scott and Rick Kirkman were attempting to brainstorm some kind of collaboration and Rick, a new father for the second time, became somewhat sidetracked by his other collaboration, as […]
I think I’m prepared to risk $200 on the theory that the universe is indeed undergoing some kind of fundamental shift when xkcd and I are on the same page on an issue of science, since I almost never understand the geeky math/science gags in this strip.I don’t understand science much beyond the general philosophical […]
Frazz may have crossed another line today, but it cracked me up. I spend a lot of time around people who do seem to think their dogs need little treats shaped and colored like T-bone steaks, and who put them on expensive diets because they are convinced their pooches are gluten-sensitive.Mind you, Vaska’s buddies do […]
I’m tied up for the next few days with some workshops for middle-school journalists, so will be posting some of the classic cartoons I used to show high school students in a presentation on the topic. This, of course, is a true classic, and one of the great obituary cartoons of all times.But why?When I […]
The 6-days-a-week flashback continues at Pooch Cafe, telling the tale of Poncho’s puppyhood. The current arc not only shows his first encounter with Carmen, who we all (except Poncho-puppy) know is destined to be Chazz’s wife and, thus, Poncho’s rival for his affections, but it’s also his first close-up experience of cats, of which she […]
I just want to point out that I was a sucker for “Dog Eat Doug” well before I began raising a puppy. But certainly I have to admit that I’m more vulnerable now than ever.Brian Anderson has a deft touch and is able to put funny, adult-style thoughts into Sophie’s head without turning the […]