The 20th Century newspaper comics were bookended by two masters of the art. Winsor McCay’s full page Little Nemo was a near-perfect example of the early comic strip (you’d think someone who began their career as a poster artist would be better at lettering). At the other end of the century was Bill Watterson whose […]
Douglas Rodger saluted American workers with this Labor Day cartoon in the San Francisco News a century ago, but, in Chicago, my grandmother was involved in a different sort of labor, and I am rising to a point of personal privilege today.In those days, fathers were banished to the waiting room, and so in a […]
A collection, today, of things for you to click on rather than for me to comment on.Start here: While we’re fixated on drumming up faux controversies over candidate health and who lied over what, there are other things going on in the world, and this commentary on Brexit by Slovenian cartoonist Ciril Horjak is just […]
Between Friends introduces today’s theme of “self-image and self-deception,” and I wonder, not how many hair dressers will clip-and-post it, because it’s a natural for them, but how many will stick it up in the back room for their own amusement versus sticking it up where the customers can see it.One different between a barber […]
If you’ve visited here more than, oh, two or three times, you know I have an affection for gallows humor.The gallows, however, need to be somewhat metaphorical, and, as Matt Bors points out here, gags about what a “gift” the current campaign is for cartoonists aren’t particularly funny or insightful.Or original, for that matter. Every clownish […]
The Whole World Is Watching and Matt suggests the whole world’s reaction and how I wish I had some clever riposte.Or could at least, as the song suggests, call the whole thing off.There are also plenty of American cartoons about Trump’s victory, but few of them illuminate anything we couldn’t see before. In fact, nothing even […]
Let’s join the New Year’s Eve 1913 party, already in progress over at Bud Fisher’s. (There will be lots of clicking to get larger versions today, by the way. On my computer, Chrome allows scrolling down on those pull-outs, Firefox does not.)Nice of him to apply labels. A lot of familiar faces, but not all […]
I got a chuckle out of Dave Whamond’s Reality Check today, as I often do. But a chuckle isn’t a laff, and isn’t generally enough to get a comic featured here.And it wasn’t today, until I switched over to political cartoons and saw what Nick Anderson had posted: Where is Paul Ryan? Have they disappeared […]
The Team Cul de Sac auction ended last night, raising a total of $47,107, including the auction house’s 19.5% buyers’ premiums, which, by my never-reliable calculations nets out to about $38,000 going to the Michael J. Fox Foundation.Not surprisingly, the portrait of Petey by Bill Watterson was the top item, leaping at the end to […]
In today’s Cul de Sac, Petey escapes into the world of Little Neuro scholarship, which is different than escaping into the world of Little Neuro himself. Alice is suitably impressed. I don’t know if you’re allowed to make fun of comics scholarship or not, but there you have it. And I’m pretty sure you’re not […]