If we got nothing else out of the Vice-Presidential Debate, Non Sequitur (AMS) reminds us, it was JD Vance’s plaintive whine about the moderators not letting him derail things with outrageous whoppers. Still, the road to Hell is paved with good intentions: Lying is evil, but quietly tolerating lies greases the slope.Blatant dishonesty is not […]
Rudy Park scores the only “Last Jedi” mention here for a couple of reasons, starting with my only caring about the film as a social factor and not as a motion picture.I have not seen it and almost certainly won’t, not because I’m the kind of snob who avoids popular films but because of the […]
Warming up with the whole “saddest words” thing over at Candorville.Lemont is moving to Canada to be with his girlfriend in Vancouver, whose name, as far as we know so far, is simply “Vancouver.” They met on-line and he’s been up there to visit her.Once.I’d love to be a romantic, but, boy oh boy, I’m […]
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 […]
Sigh. And here I thought we were going to have a rant-free, look-what-made-me-laff day. And then Hilary Price went and drew this RWO.I’m a fan of dog rescue. But, boy oh boy, it sure is well past the point where cave canem and caveat emptor cross over.I have had Rhodesian ridgebacks for the past 30 […]
Valentine’s Day seems to have gang aft a bit aglee this year, with so many strips saluting endangered or destroyed relationships that I can only feature a few, starting with Luann, who appears to have cut things off with her Aussie.I say “appears” because she also “appears” to be jumping the gun and assuming things […]
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 […]
I could probably use my Andy Rooney pics for nearly everything today, because I seem to be stuck in Old Fart Mode. Oh well. It’s always worth the price of admission here. For instance, On The Fastrack made me scroll back my memory bar, and I think the last time I got a Christmas bonus was 1981.Do […]
I’m not much for Valentine’s Day, but today’s Wumo cracked me up.For one thing, it’s nice to see a Valentine’s Day cartoon that isn’t based on “Men are so insensitive!” in which the gag is either that he tried but got it wrong or that he completely forgot.In creative terms, those are the Y-chromosome version […]
Yesterday was a day of action for fast-food workers. It was also the day when the NFL and the players union announced an agreement to settle the lawsuits about concussions.There’s a link, and it’s not a pretty one. Actually, there’s a small link and a big link, but they’re different sides of the same strange […]
Here are yesterday and today’s episodes of “Gil.”When this strip first started, I had some serious reservations about the character of Gil’s father. As a divorced dad myself, I don’t take kindly to “deadbeat dad” portrayals, in part because it’s a stereotype and in part because it’s accurate enough to be an embarrassment to the […]
Francesco Marciuliano is so good at being a wiseass that it’s easy to overlook the depth required for true wiseassery, as opposed to knee-jerk, calculatedly-irreverent, frat-boy/morning zoo stuff. This is not the first time he’s taken off the jester’s hat at Sally Forth, but he’s rarely this straightforward, and that is a good reason why the strip […]
Jimmy Margulies notes the lack of patriotism currently at play among the self-proclaimed “patriots” who seek revenge rather than justice in the Boston bombing.Back in the olden days, the bumpersticker cry of “America: Love It or Leave It” was leveled at protestors who objected to the war and/or the draft. This never made much sense, […]
The Heart of Juliet Jones was broken on a fairly regular basis, and the current rerun at DailyInk has her falling for a feckless (Note to Irish readers: That’s not what it means) architect, who dreams great artistic thoughts but doesn’t seem to ever buckle down and get to what other people would recognize as […]
My final comment on yesterday’s unscheduled discursion into healthy relationships, via Deflocked: Meanwhile, a technical screw-up allows for an explanation of how Sunday comics work. Here’s how today’s Barney & Clyde looked on GoComics: Strange, no?For those not immersed in the business, here’s what’s up: Printing involves working with CMYK files, meaning that, while a color picture […]