Yeah, I know, it’s not a cartoon. It’s a movie poster. We’ll get to the cartoons.But last night my granddaughter and I watched “The Candidate,” which was made in 1972, the year her father was born. She’s about to turn 21 and has volunteered in campaigns since high school, so was an excellent audience for […]
Bob Gorrell offers one of many conservative takes on White House leakage. As I’ve noted before, the shenanigans of the Trump administration have alienated a lot of the GOP’s regular supporters, and Gorrell tends to be conservative.In this case, he’s also being responsible and accurate, which makes his work stand out, and that’s a shame. The […]
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, […]
Ah, Pearls Before Swine brings back such memories!All the girls I’ve ever loved!And the summer camp where the pioneering counselors kept a huge jar of mayonnaise on a shelf in the trip shack, made sandwiches with it and then took us on an overnight, which turned into an over-only-part-of-a-night because we had to drive back to camp […]
Let’s begin with either a tip or a complaint: An increasing number of web sites, for reasons I cannot fathom, heap up a bunch of old material at their top, either on a deep “Showcase” banner or, in the case of Facebook, in the form of a collage of old pics.The result is that you […]
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 […]
Pooch Cafe echoes my own cynical take on all those heart-warming specials that not only come up on TV this time of year but are also parts of Very Special Story Arcs in comics.I’ve said enough about my doubts lately on how much all these “redemption” stories actually change anyone, but Jeff Stahler’s “Moderately Confused” made […]
Today’s Non Sequitur reminds me of a time I was asked to do a presentation on freelance writing to a college journalism class.I prepared the presentation right enough, but added this: I brought along a file of rejection letters I’d collected over the years. “I’m going to punctuate my lecture the way your life will be […]
Sometimes more is more, as witness the latest K Chronicles, in which Keith Knight takes on the “in my day” statement of Clint Eastwood.He’s not the first cartoonist to go after Eastwood’s remarks, and it should be noted that the statement itself is so overwhelmingly foolish as to invite both refutation and ridicule. There are a […]
Let’s warm up with Wumo, which raises the question, if this is what Heaven is like, how bad could Hell be?Maybe the one in Hell asks for specific dates, credit card numbers, etc. And note that the one for Heaven is on a clipboard. The one in Hell is on-line, which sounds much better — […]
The “where to start?” question was answered this morning by Keith Knight, who nimbly addresses something I’d been pondering.I, too, had noticed that political diatribes have at least somewhat supplanted dumbass food postings on Facebook. And that the political diatribes are similarly dumbass, in that they have about as much relation to political reality as the recipes […]
Let’s start at the end: Edge City is in its final week and is having some fun with the concept. I like the idea of actually signing off rather than just stopping, and being up front with readers. I’m sorry the strip is ending, but I’m glad to see them go out with a little class. Voter […]
You can read this, Watson. No spoilers, except that, as my 14-year-old critic wrote, “Everyone will go see it regardless of whether it’s any good. Happily, it really is good.”In fact, I was struck by the similarities between his review and the one Tom Racine and Lucas Turnbloom did at Tall Tales Radio, both spoiler free. We’ll […]
The Knight Life ponders the weird gap between the role models we offer our kids and the roles we expect them to model.Thus was it ever, Keefe, though you do have to differentiate between the characters parents provide to their children versus the characters kids find on their own.When I was researching a story about […]
Last week, I praised Humon as an artist willing to try variety and new things.Now the latest Tom the Dancing Bug makes an argument about the web as innovation killer, which, at first glance, seems counterintuitive. The promise of the web was that artists and musicians would no longer be in thrall to gatekeepers.And that’s true, […]