Last Sunday’s Wizard of Id became the topic of an Arkansas Democrat Gazette editorial (or here): This past weekend, The Wizard of Id got political. Or not. You might have seen the strip Sunday–a whole strip dedicated to . . . We’re not sure. What was it trying to say? Epstein! … was some folks’ […]
In the world of comic art, artists are often dubbed ink-slingers based upon not only the volume of ink used, but the activity in which that ink is slung. Grin and Bear It! “Lichty works fast. His style is apparently slapdash; he pencils in outlines and features, and then brushes on tones or color. (He […]
We defer to the Honolulu Star-Bulletin to set the scene for November 11, 1942, the first Armistice Day after Pearl Harbor.It had been a busy 11 months, and, while troops of the French puppet government were defeated in Africa, Rommel was still hanging on: Two days later, papers would bring news of the British victory […]
Keith Knight touches on a topic that has been big news around here, only not about deer.As you may have seen on the wire services, we had a family of bears in Hanover become enough of a nuisance that they needed, well, an intervention.Mother and adolescent boys had gone from raiding Dumpsters to breaking into […]
In today’s Nonsequitur, Wiley sends us on a trip down other people’s memory lanes and highlights the difficulty of being a grandfather, or even a parent, in the current age.For centuries, it was easy to tell stories, and you could go ahead and share the memory without having to explain why something that couldn’t happen today was […]
We’ll start today’s posting with Francis, because it won’t end as cheerfully or encouragingly.I guess the proportion of people who truly listened in church is about the same as those who truly followed the news, and so here we are.It’s okay to stop helping the poor just as it’s okay to crawl into bed with […]
Andy Warner tells us all about the pizzly bear at the Nib on Medium.com, and you should go have a look at the whole thing for two reasons:1. It’s interesting and well-presented.2. The fact that it’s interesting and well-presented hit me at the right moment, because it’s part of a whole issue of graphic non-fiction […]
Tom Toles notes the lack of response to what appears, to all scientists except those at the No Longer The Tobacco Institute Research Laboratory, a crisis significantly hastened, if not spawned, by the world’s increasing industrialization and overall modernity.Which is to say, we have met the enemy and he is us, but as long as […]