I get up early by most standards, but even earlier this morning because my bedside clock doesn’t change itself, so when I turned on my computer, I realized I’d rolled out an hour earlier than I had to. No worries: I’ll make it up with a nap later and I didn’t have to wait for […]
Learning that the NYTimes has condemned its kid-news feature to on-line made this Dark Horse particularly stand out for me. I spent a decade editing a weekly kid-written insert for the Denver Post, and one of the problems my young reporters faced was that whoever they interviewed would say “Follow your dream,” which is the […]
The MLive Media Group has announced it is adding comic strips to their print editions. Two new comics to their Sunday Funnies and 12(!) to their daily comics pages: Starting March 18, our eight Michigan newspaper titles are adding 8 new comic strips to our Sunday newspaper lineup – 6 will be available in our […]
Not sure either event is particularly “inspiring” except to the wrong people, but Brewster Rockit (Tribune) does a good job of choosing the finalists and summing up the year, and I think he made the right choice.The election was like finding out your lover has been cheating on you. On the one hand, you’re suddenly […]
Loose Parts (AMS) hits at a good moment. I tried a hole-in-the-wall pizza place yesterday, and when I paid, got one of those screens. I don’t believe in tipping counterhelp and you’re not supposed to tip the owner, so I hit “No tip.” Again. Again. Again. Finally.“I’ll bet the 25% one goes right through,” I […]
Scott Hilburn wins the Fortuitous Timing Award, though if he’d run today’s Argyle Sweater (AMS) 24 hours earlier, he might be up for a Pulitzer. Yes, it’s a different form of airline chaos, but given his lead time, I think he did pretty well.Besides, the types of chaos that ensued appear to have been fairly […]
Bizarro (KFS) strikes a nostalgic note, intentionally or not. I don’t think of Easter eggs as empty shells, but then I don’t think of them as this elaborately decorated, except in Eastern Europe where I doubt pysanky are mixed in with the candy. But it did remind me of being a tiny tot some 70 […]
Some years ago — never mind how long precisely — having burned out on the politics of the day, and finding nothing in particular amusing me anymore, I thought I would flail about a little and devote Fridays to the funny parts of the comics.I know that’s the wrong movie, but we don’t apologize in […]
F Minus (AMS) offers an explanation for what’s gone wrong with the world which is both funny and, as is usually the case with funny things, thought-provoking.On the most mundane level, it’s a case of blaming yourself for what’s gone wrong in the world and, certainly, that’s a valid point, particularly if you’ve sat around […]
I know I got a bigger laff out of this BC (Creators) than I should have, because it happened to me and a very young son while fishing off opposite sides of a canoe. There was much shouting of “Dad! I need help!” and “Not now! Not now!” until it turned out we didn’t need […]
Bob Eckstein starts us off today with a cartoon that is only “bathroom humor” by implication, but, then, if you don’t know the expression he’s alluding to, you won’t get the joke.I laughed because I tend to lump podcasts and videos into the category of things I don’t much follow. I like to read, but […]
My distaste for awards is sort of a running gag here, and this Sherman’s Lagoon (AMS) pretty well sums it up.It reminded me of an item in the late Charley Stough’s “B.O.N.G. Bulletin” — a periodic on-line roundup of news, gossip and jokes from the mythical Burned Out Newscreatures Guild — about a for-real memo […]
Today’s F-Minus (AMS) touched off an odd bit of nostalgia, because when I was a small lad, we had a mother-and-daughter teacher team — Mom was music, daughter was art — who were reportedly convinced that the poles were about to swap any minute, at which point the land would be flooded, and so kept […]
I’m sure Tony Carrillo drew today’s F-Minus (AMS) some time ago, but it sure couldn’t have dropped at a better time.For my part, three days of analyzing Alito leaves me eager to be uninformed for at least a little while, and, BTW, it’s Free Comic Book Day at your local comics shop, which ought to help […]
Jason Chatfield takes a shot at audience members who seem to wish they’d been the ones invited to speak on the stage, or perhaps to conduct the interview. The usual comment here would be “There’s one in every crowd,” but there seem to be at least three or four.Audience mikes should have an automatic eight-second […]