I was prepared to jump right into this very non-comical story, and the AAEC has released a statement on it, but I didn’t find enough cartoons this morning on the topic, so it’ll have to wait. But Slyngstad dropped two commentaries, this light-hearted iconic one and a more serious one that you’ll see when more […]
I got a laugh out of this, though my current dog is quite neat and would only have rumpled blankets, since she buries herself in them. But the timing is nice because it made me think about coming home from college for Thanksgiving, which I only did once.I came home completely changed and it was […]
If you can’t trust cartoonists, who?Like Monty I read the daily comics, unlike Monty mostly online since my local only carries six comics, two of the three mentioned above. Barely moving on we come to Daddy Daze where we find out that we can’t trust cartoonists. Rory out of The Barn is just flat out […]
Sunday: To Comma or Not To Comma and Two Title PanelsTwo words in Rubes and two words in Cowtown, both with the proper use of the comma or lack thereof.I think my favorite part of The Sunday Funnies was the dinosaur vignette in Little Oop‘s title panel. Also, for no reason I can discern, the […]
There have been more than a few references to comic strips on the funny pages lately. As has always been the case, most recently shown in Back to B.C. when the art form meant more to newspapers than they presently do. The Back to B.C. reruns about comic strips started August 25 while the Barney […]
Let’s pretend that there are still cities with two newspapers in the U.S. and this is the other’s funny pages.Tiny TypeThat other paper’s comics section featured a Nick Newman cartoon about our aging eyesight…Which brought to mind today’s Flo and Friends. There are a couple of legitimate fears there but the tiny fonts is more […]
Well, now I’d never be able to look at a horseshoe crab without seeing a face-hugger. Not that I see a lot of horseshoe crabs anyway, and I think the times I have seen them, I’ve mostly seen parts washed up on the beach. But now I’ll be seeing pieces of a face-hugger.I do know […]
Between commentary on a holiday now past and pending legislation now passed, the political folks need to do some catching up. Meanwhile, the funny people have done fairly well lately.I’ve somewhat given up on chopsticks, though I got good with them in the 70s when authenticity seemed important and we were eating short-grained brown rice, […]
This is funny to start with, but also sparks a memory of a woman I went out with very briefly, shortly after both of our divorces, but long enough after mine that I could detect subtle warning signs.Like the fact that she and her now-ex had been building a semi-custom townhouse which originally had a […]
Wikipedia confirms my hunch that Lucky Charms was the first cereal to start adding candy. My skepticism over the move is likely because I was 14 when they were introduced and so somewhat above the fray. Our mother had a rule that we could only have two cereal boxes open at a time: One sugared, […]
Sweet dreams and flying machines in pieces on the ground, and I’m kind of surprised that anybody had time to respond, given that Dear Leader pulled the plug at two in the afternoon, so we’ll give some other cartoonists a chance to catch up.And speaking of catch-up, we’re in good hands, because our Secretary of […]
No politics today. We’ve had two weeks of thinking about horrible things, and I’m taking a day off. But Existential Comics offers something equally unpleasant and I’ll spare a tear for poor Hercules. I enjoyed reading philosophy, which was good, because we had a lot of it. Plato’s chatter about forms got a little esoteric, […]
Wallace the Brave (AMS) and Spud the … um … the Spudacious … offer a holiday take that breaks through the usual seasonal noise. And speaking of noise, I’d rather have a couple of kids come by with an absurd but amusing rap than hear Musak at the store in which nameless singers flail at […]
Monty’s right. Nobody’s reading the paper today, and it’s only in relatively recent years that they’ve even bothered to print on holidays, which, by the way, had a lot to do with not being able to get them delivered because the kids were at Grandma’s.So you have your characters wish readers a happy whatever the […]
I pondered using Joe Dator’s cartoon because I’ve seen similar gags before, but then realized (A) there aren’t many absolutely brand-new gags, but a good cartoonist can make them fresh and (B) there are things that can’t be said too often.(A) is covered in Russian literary criticism, where they have an expression “making new,” which […]