Heart is a cute little kid whose irrepressible pretensions are adorable. One of my favorite strips.Because she’s about seven years old.By junior high, it becomes silly.If it persists into adulthood, we’re talking delusional and creepy. The unseen driver at the end is that guy, getting the hell out of town but now with the germ of […]
Chip Bok makes a valid point about Jeff Sessions’ recent decision to crack down on pot: He’s the Attorney General and he should be enforcing the law. You can’t blame him for the fact that federal law has not kept up with social trends or science or medicine.Though at that point the argument divides.Bok is […]
Amid a flurry of tepid cartoons about John McCain’s not-so-great diagnosis, David Fitzsimmons keeps focus on things.Yesterday, I ran into a friend who has, in the past two weeks, gotten word of an aggressive cancer. I gave her a hug and reminded her that I’d had the same bad news a little over a year […]
Nothing, alas, ever turns out to be quite as cool as you thought it was going to be, Keefe.Except Yellowstone, but nothing in daily life. However, what is cool is that cartoonists like Keith Knight have introduced being a dad as a normal, interesting, challenging but, again, normal part of life. Your kids may occasionally be frustrating, […]
(F Minus)A few warm-ups before we get all heavy.I signed up for something yesterday that required a credit card, my address and a password, and they were picky enough about the password — eight letters or more, you couldn’t have three consecutive digits — that they kept kicking it back for revision.The good news was […]
I’m going to have to keep the comments brief, because my self-imposed 1,000 word limit won’t get me through everything that cracked me up or made me think this morning. Fill in the conceptual gaps in my prose as needed; not much of it will be. Imago iocosus ipsa loquiturI decided to lead off with the […]
This one is personal: Brewster Rockit has been riffing on the recent discovery of a 3.7 billion year old bacterium.The discovery was not of an actual 3.7 billion year old bacterium itself, but of its fossil, or, to be even more accurate, the discovery of a bed of such fossils, in the recently-exposed rocks of Greenland.I […]
According to my counter, many of you were able to ace Bug Martini’s “Caring About Family” test yesterday. Welcome back.Though, while the demands of the holiday may keep people from making their appointed rounds, if my own experience was at all typical, it didn’t mean putting the phones away entirely, because there was likely a […]
Couple of quickies before we get to the hard core issue of the day:Two minds with but a single thought: This pairing ranks as one of the more odd coincidences I’ve seen on the comics page lately, since I haven’t seen anything about bananas in the news or rocketing around social media. I’m kind of […]
Some days, you’re just in the mood for thoughtful silliness, like Deflocked. And I don’t mean “thoughtful” in the sense of “absolutely new gags,” much less in the sense of “gags you need to really think about before you get them.” First of all, there aren’t a lot of new gags, at least not since […]