From The Bayeux Tapestry in the 11th Century to Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, plus Felix’s Bag of Magic Tricks – seems we’re in a war zone today.Part war propaganda, part comic strip From NPR: LONDON — The earliest-known depiction of the 1066 Battle of Hastings — which began the Norman Conquest, changing England’s […]
An odd week of funny cartoons that hit me for specific, personal reasons, so bear with me. As a reward for your indulgence, I’ll start with the most tasteless, from the Barn.Not that crayons themselves are tasteless, though they’re pretty bland. But they also don’t digest and the result is not fully technicolor poop but […]
Best of the Day goes to Susan Camilleri Konar at Six Chix.Simply having a comments section forming would be funny enough, but what really ties it into social media is the fact that nobody has taken a tab.Everyone is eager to express an opinion, nobody steps up to help.I’m sure none of the comments are […]
Let’s start with the really easy one: Karnak predicts that this Off the Mark is going to be forwarded to a lot of people today.Remember that old joke in which the dinner guest observes that the dog is staring at him, to which the response is, “You’re eating out of his dish”? Well, my dog has […]
Start with a bit of Granite State humor. Stephanie Piro, one of the Six Chix, lives about an hour and a half east of me, and so, while that’s about as far apart laterally as you can get in this not terribly wide state, we’re sort of neighbors.She describes herself as “once a NYer, always […]
I’ll be off to vote as soon as I finish up here, and I hope you vote, too, but I’ve had enough of the talk. If you haven’t made up your mind by now you may not have a mind to make up, so what’s the point?And as the Dogs of C-Kennel note, it’s been […]
“Libertarian!”In today’s “New Yorker Daily Cartoon,” Kim Warp raises a question that perplexes but only occasionally infuriates me. I understand why cats go leash-free, though I know people who walk their cats on leashes and good for them. But cats are only marginally domesticated and, while they are interesting companions in their own off-beat way, they’re […]
Okay, I’m not this cynical about Valentine’s Day, and it’s not an entirely made-up holiday like Mother’s Day, or Father’s Day, though all three are based on marketing and guilt.But saying you’re not as cynical as Rat still leaves you with a fair amount of wiggle room, and it makes no difference how you feel […]
Start with a fun one, from Piranha Club, where Bud Grace has been expounding on the pleasures of cruise ship vacations. For my part, you don’t have to exaggerate to make me not want to take one of these trips, though I’d be willing to book passage on a freighter, which is a thing you can […]
Yes, Anne. Yes, indeed.Last spring, I gave up political cartoons for Lent and it was very pleasant, but in times of crisis, you can’t just sit around pretending not to know what’s happening.On the other hand, there is still pie in the world and you shouldn’t neglect that, either. So I have no idea what sort […]
The inauguration cartoons are mostly in, and, while it’s hard to pick a winner, it’s not hard to see the trend.While a few highlight national debt as a looming presence or a weight on the president’s back, and some riff on the coincidence of a black man being inaugurated on Martin Luther King Day (which […]
To say it again, timing is everything in comedy, and when the first of these Rhymes With Orange comics appeared last month, it put me on the floor but it also happened to coincide with the verdict in the Jerry Sandusky trial, which demanded more urgent cartoon commentary.So I filed it away because I wanted […]
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 […]
As I’ve noted before, Arlo & Janis’s cat, Ludwig, is a realistic feline. I’d go so far as to say that he is the most realistic pet in all of comicdom, and part of that is evident in his facial expressions today. Cats have an innocent ability to live in the moment that dogs do […]
(This interview with Garfield creator Jim Davis is one of a series of cartoonist profiles I did in 2003 for the Post-Star of Glens Falls, NY)Garfield was born where a lot of cats are born: In the basement. He sure didn’t stay there. Jim Davis had worked for nine years as an assistant on the […]