Flash from the Past: The Stripper’s Guide has a discursion on “The Nebbishes,” which I discovered via a tip from Mike Lynch and then expanded through some surfing around whereby I came up with the above example at a blog called “It’s A Cat,” though they aren’t cats. They’re nebbishes, a Yiddish term for a […]
One of the recurring topics in comic strips is lead time, but Monty couldn’t have placed this one much closer to the mark.We’ve finally got some real spring going here in the Connecticut Valley, and yesterday I became aware that now I can have the doors and windows open while I work. It’s very nice […]
Looks like we’re going to have to send the Comix Police out to round up a few scofflaws: Jef Mallett is not simply a repeat offender but verges on being declared a career criminal.It’s not enough that, in today’s Frazz, he violates one law of comic humor by offering up a pun without a final […]
Interesting day to see how some familiar gags can be repackaged: Monty has been on a trip through time and has, yet again, found true love. I know this is not breakthrough comedy, that the gag is a variation on all sorts of others, but there is something about Jim Meddick’s artwork and timing that […]
“Monty” explores the world of presidential polls. The back-and-forth in the current campaign is, as suggested yesterday, getting to the point where ridiculous things about binders are crowding out more substantive arguments. But, then again, maybe we really are in a world in which facts and logic are not relevant and smart campaigning should ignore […]
Arlo and Janis once more taps into my life.While I sit here praying that, as the newspaper industry implodes around me, my skill set will get me through just a couple of more years until Social Security kicks in, Arlo notes that, yeah, most of what we know seems to be fading into oblivion.Fortunately, our generation […]
Maybe it’s just coincidence.But the Reubens were seven weeks ago, and this Sunday, we see multiple cartoons in which metacommentary rules.Given the normal lead time for Sundays, given the time since a bunch of cartoonists were sitting around Las Vegas talking about cartooning, I’m gonna say there’s a connection between their escape from the solitude […]
Halloween should be a dream for cartoonists, but, while the graphic potential is high, there are only so many gags: Parents eat the candy, kids try to amass great quantities of candy, kids eat too much candy, etc. And then each year, there is something trendy to work into the strips — bankers and OWS […]
Monty and his pal Moondog are lost in the woods this week.I don’t often enjoy camping arcs, because I grew up in the woods and don’t have the right point of view, I suppose, but I’m a sucker for silly and so far, so good.A lot of the humor in most “out in the country” […]