This Reality Check (AMS) raises an interesting question: Do you have to be a guitar player to get the joke? My feeling is that you only need a very basic understanding of music to get a chuckle, because the G-Clef tells you it’s about music and you should know there are majors and minors that […]
Remember that graffito that read “We are the people our parents warned us about?” Well, as Non Sequitur (AMS) points out, we are now the people we warned ourselves about. I miss the old days, but when I really think back, I realize that most of the fun things I did then fall under the […]
In this morning’s Arlo and Janis (AMS), Arlo salutes the earlier sunrise on this first day back in Standard time. It all makes me no never mind, since I get up before anybody’s notion of daylight kicks in, though it felt good to roll over for another hour this morning. Arlo has always seemed to […]
Life is good, and I’m well past midlife, as depicted in this Non Sequitur (AMS). As for my mojo, either it’s gone or it’s become so fully embedded that I don’t fret over it. I do miss malls, though. I don’t think anyone is building them anymore and most of the ones I’ve seen lately […]
Macanudo (KFS) offers an uplifting thought, and we could all use one about now. There is a kind of conceptual collision between the saying “Curiosity killed the cat” and the semifolkloric belief that they possess nine lives. Well, a cat may look at a king and also become fascinated by a laser, and the ability […]
Our comment feature appears to be broken beyond repair, at least for our current platform, which inspires (finally!) a redesign, which will take a while. In the meantime, we hope you’ll give us feedback on the social media where we announce our new postings. (Illo by Henry Justice Ford) There’s a lot of political […]
Juxtaposition of the Date (Andy Marlette – Creators) (Walt Handelsman) I remember taking angry phone calls in the newsroom on a December 7 in the early ’90s because we hadn’t acknowledged the date on Page One. It wasn’t my decision: I only got the calls because, as the business writer, I was there before […]
We’ll start off a Canine Cascade with Wumo (AMS), for no particular reason except that I just swapped out my Facebook pics, which I don’t do terribly often. It is a form of branding, after all: People see your pic before they read your name. Which makes dog faces an excellent Facebook pic locally, since […]
Real Life Adventures (AMS) asks the question on all our minds: “What’s the deal with mattresses?” Well, there’s also the question of “Whatever happened to President’s Day?” or, another way, “Remember when we had Lincoln’s Birthday and Washington’s Birthday?” But let’s not bring those old guys up because then we’d get to talking about San […]
I’ll admit to spending a fair amount of time going through my memories, which is okay because I’ve got a fair amount of them, both significant and very, very trivial. This Bizarro (KFS) sparked one of the latter. My freshman year phys ed instructor in college was one of those profs who sets himself as […]
Wouldn’t it be nice if they carried signs like this fellow in Macanudo? But we don’t discuss politics on Friday. However, discussing both life and philosophy is permitted and Macanudo (KFS) is often the sort of thing you could spin a whole day from if you slowed down enough. Is a humble-bragger more to be […]
If you only pick up the funnies every once in awhile, you have no more idea of what the hell is going on than Wallace‘s teacher. And, while I have the greatest sympathy for her, it serves you right, but I’ll direct you back to where this all began and, trust me, the trip will […]
Timing is everything, and while this Kevin Siers cartoon references something happening in his hometown of Charlotte, it comes as the apartment house next door to me is on the verge of being converted to an independent living home for special needs people. Which is a worthy cause and they’ll be good neighbors, but […]
Since I have no particular place to start today, I’ll post this Retail and tell a related story to point out why timing is everything in comedy. I was out running errands and getting hungry and happened to be passing the only place in town with decent pizza, so decided that, instead of a burger, […]
Just because Friday Funnies is a no-politics zone doesn’t mean we can’t be a little thoughtful, and the menopause arc in this week’s Pajama Diaries set me to thinking about women and cartooning and progress and such. This isn’t the first time Terri Libenson has been more frank than most, but let’s start with the […]