CSotD: Bombs Bursting in Air and So Forth

Dante Barbetta Joins The Senior Strippers
by D. D. Degg
December 2, 2024
Animator Dante Barbetta was born December 2, 1934 and so joins the Senior Strippers roll. “Friend Bob,” who Dante addresses in those...
Peter Maddocks – RIP
by D. D. Degg
December 2, 2024
English comic strip cartoonist Peter Maddocks has passed away. Peter Maddocks April 1, 1928 – November 20, 2024 From The Telegraph: Peter...
CSotD: Monday Merriment
by Mike Peterson
December 2, 2024
There are all sorts of important political issues to address, but there are also a lot of leftover Thanksgiving political cartoons, and...
The Alphabeticomical Sunday Funnies
by D. D. Degg
December 1, 2024
Barney and Clyde I like the slow creep of the color into the Sunday Funny partnered with the script. Of course it...
Comic Strip Rarities: Garfield
by D. D. Degg
December 1, 2024
Strangely, for such a popular comic strip that appears in thousands of newspapers and has scores of book collections published, previous little-known...
CSotD: Media Literacy on the Funny Pages
by Mike Peterson
December 1, 2024
Andertoons (AMS) takes a daring step, making a joke based on the reader having a good vocabulary, but which is funnier if...
David Rowe Wins 10th Cartoonist of the Year Award
by Alan Gardner
November 30, 2024
David Rowe, editorial cartoonist for the Australian Financial Review, has been voted Cartoonist of the Year by his fellow members of the...

CSotD: Bombs Bursting in Air and So Forth

Mike Peterson5 months ago5 months ago111 mins

Jeff Danziger (Counterpoint) sounds echoes of the bandwagon/Bellman effect discussed here yesterday. Yossarian was asked, “What if everyone felt that…

Charles Brubaker on Dante Barbetta Joins The Senior StrippersDecember 3, 2024
Happy birthday to Dante! Love his work in animation, especially the late-era Famous Studios (Paramount).
Lou on CSotD: Monday MerrimentDecember 2, 2024
I pay for all my groceries with cash. Recently, I was in my local grocer (not a chain, but an…
Lou on CSotD: Monday MerrimentDecember 2, 2024
Or conversely, you'd have a fax machine calling an office order line, with no way to get it to stop…
MarkB on CSotD: Monday MerrimentDecember 2, 2024
I was joking about people who rushed to the store on Black Friday to buy cheaper electronics. Then Sunday am…
Mary McNeil on CSotD: Monday MerrimentDecember 2, 2024
When I briefly worked at a dry cleaner, the order of punching keys to get the total for change was…
Richard Gagnon on CSotD: Monday MerrimentDecember 2, 2024
I wonder how he would have reacted had you handed him two nickels and said “5. 5. *That* makes 55!”.…