Deflocked touches on a new lesson I’ve just had. As mentioned before, I’m currently at the Colorado Chapter of the International Reading Association conference in Denver, which is a massive event drawing teachers from well beyond Colorado itself.Among the benefits of hanging out with teachers this year is the discovery that there are now cell phones for […]
“Rudy” itself ended up on the losing side of that fine line. You can read more about it here at Stripper’s Guide, where Allan Holtz sums it up: How do you doom a comic strip to a short run? Well, in the case of Rudy by William Overgard, you make the humor smart and character driven. You […]
Let’s lead off with some non-political short takes. Monty is particularly well-timed for me, because I was streaming the Sopranos yesterday while I did dishes, and I have to say, people in that show sure got a lot of phone calls.About the fourth time I wiped my hands and reached for my pocket, it occurred […]
Yes, Anne. Yes, indeed.Last spring, I gave up political cartoons for Lent and it was very pleasant, but in times of crisis, you can’t just sit around pretending not to know what’s happening.On the other hand, there is still pie in the world and you shouldn’t neglect that, either. So I have no idea what sort […]
Mother Goose & Grimm with a pretty good analysis of how it works.The dog and I walk past a “wealth management” company each day and I always shudder a bit, because, my experience is that, when they talk about “wealth,” they don’t mean yours. I liked them better when they called themselves “financial planners,” probably for […]
I mentioned recently that I’m trying to avoid TLDNR Syndrome. Today offers a chance, since a lot of cartoonists have served up strips that require little elaboration.Much as I contend that a good strip makes you laugh because it made you think, there are ones that make you laff, which is different. They still raise […]
Monty strikes at a male obsession appropriate for a three-day weekend. After a couple days of not having to shave, the question comes up of maybe growing some facial hair.Which, by the way, doesn’t relieve you of the need to shave, since nobody’s face grows hair only in the mustache/beard regions.You still have to shave […]
May Day celebrations seem a bit muted this year, as Italian cartoonist Enrico Bertuccioli (“Ebert”) notes in this Cartoon Movement panel.It’s nice to know the economy is screwed everywhere and not just in the country that just noted a special centennial celebration. Gosh, it seems like yesterday. Granted, the worldwide collapse is not as dramatic in […]
Here is a small piece of a longer work by Natalie Nourigat that is at once the saddest and also the most encouraging thing I’ve seen in a very long time. You need to go read the whole thing.(I’ll wait.)I feel very bad about the way we’ve slowly immersed ourselves in a police-state mentality, but […]
Mike Thompson earns the lead-off spot today with an appropriately dark commentary on the Supreme Court’s official declaration that we are now a plutocracy.It reminds me of an exchange in “The Mikado,” in which Nanki-poo seeks information from Pooh-bah, the Lord High Everything Else (and hence the epithet):NANKI-POO : But how good of you (for I […]
The gag in today’s “In the Bleachers” is that there are plenty of seats left, except for one low corner of the end zone cordoned off for people who don’t want drunken boobs sitting behind them. And in front of them. And to either side of them. Which brings us to this grim panel from Cartoon […]
I don’t think Tim Eagan is directly referencing the first major pronouncement of Pope Francis’s tenure, but he might as well be. Just as the commandment “Thou shalt not kill” sets a clear limit in order to safeguard the value of human life, today we also have to say “thou shalt not” to an economy […]
For the most part, an “interesting” strip that doesn’t make me chuckle is unlikely to get top billing here, but Candorville is often a fairly straightforward piece of social commentary and since — other than his grammar-nazi issues — Darrin Bell generally mirrors my thoughts, well, here we are.(Holy Serendipity, Batman! What an opportunity to point […]
It’s hardly surprising when two or more political cartoonists come up with the same metaphor. Lord knows, Ted Cruz’s last name brought forth plenty of the same puns and I used the term “brought forth” because “inspired” seems inappropriate.But when a couple of strip writers happen onto the same general concept at random, it can […]
One of my favorite sources of stupid humor is Monty, who continues to make the tired old “hapless guy looks just like the killer” gag even more ridiculous than usual, and thus justifies dragging it out in the first place.It either takes a lot of confidence or a lot of gall. Today’s installment speaks for […]