One of the options at the moment is despair, but that’s an unacceptable choice.Besides, we’re not there yet and there’s still plenty of room for comic relief. Like the guy in Bliss, you can still stay aware of things, as long as you’ve got some good coffee, to which I would add “and a few […]
Well, now I’d never be able to look at a horseshoe crab without seeing a face-hugger. Not that I see a lot of horseshoe crabs anyway, and I think the times I have seen them, I’ve mostly seen parts washed up on the beach. But now I’ll be seeing pieces of a face-hugger.I do know […]
Canada Day is this Tuesday and I don’t actually have a Canadian cartoon handy, but we’ve just further bollixed our relationship with our second largest trading partner — Mexico is first; we have a talent for not following the money — and things are beginning to sound like this Edison Lee. When I was covering […]
How funny is death? Well, the closer it comes the less I fret over it. I’m pretty healthy, but I’m in the home stretch and while I expect another decade, nothing was ever guaranteed, except that Death would show up like Alan Funt — when you least expect it, you’re elected.Unless you’re this guy, who […]
Featuring Shoe, Broom-Hilda, Bizarro The New Yorker, Creature Features, The Phantom, Arlo and Janis, Olive and Popeye and Thimble Theater.I began my comic strip reading with the Comics Kingdom feed today and Shoe was one of the first ones to make an impression. The psychiatrist was good, but the sofa and the Perfessor lounging across […]
I’m going to set today’s sour mood by disagreeing with Dave Whamond. I understand his point and others have pointed out the keyboard warriors who declare themselves experts on the problem of the day, whatever it is. The problem is that, other than drawing the fellow as buck-toothed and chinless, he doesn’t indicate that he […]
It’s a pleasant fantasy, to imagine each bizarre, disturbing development coming along in a separate day. If it did, we could brace for it as Katauskas suggests. But, of course, that’s not how a firehose works, though the unbearable daily terror she posits would be an improvement on the flood that actually occurs.As it is, […]
Nous sommes ici, at the AAEC and ACC Convention in Montreal, and I’m gradually re-learning to shift from English to French and back again as well as recalling that once you find the place you’re looking for and then find a place to park, you have forgotten how to get where you were going. Fortunately, […]
Ben (MWAM) raises the issue of comic sands, albeit imperfectly. Assuming he dug holes deep enough so only the boys’ shoulders and heads were out, and only wide enough to fit them exactly, they could indeed be stuck.However, comic strips often feature people buried lying down who are then unable to get out from under […]
Might as well get my annual fruitcake rant out of the way. There will be a kabillion cartoons twixt now and Dec 25 about how awful fruitcake is, but in this Off The Mark (AMS), Mark Parisi gives us a close-up that explains the problem.Traditional fruitcake is a dense, dark loaf full of brown sugar […]
I saw one political cartoon this morning that actually referenced something in the State of the Union speech, and a couple that were clearly drawn before it. Let’s wait a day and see what other commentary pops up. Too Much Coffee Man (AMS) did well to get this one up before mask mandates disappeared, and the […]
Harry Bliss, who lives about 20 miles south of here, cites 40 inches of snow from yesterday’s morning dump, and I got a laff over his having bought JD Salinger’s home and then joking about having to dig himself out.Salinger wasn’t a hermit — he came into town and was sociable enough — but he […]
I wasn’t sure where to start today, but David Horsey may come the closest to my position.I’m not quite with Bob Englehart, in proclaiming the unknown writer as a hero, because, as others have suggested, there’s an element of complicity in staying on the team, even if you’re helping to thwart the President’s most outrageous […]