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, I’d […]
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 idea […]
I wasn’t sure where to begin today, but Matt Bors offers a nice meld of the Facebook issue and our national governance crisis.Bors often depicts a level of something I’m hesitant to call “paranoia” but which is based on an assumption of purpose and intent that I think the world largely lacks. That is, people […]
I’m gonna start today with a Non Sequitur that made me say, “Do they still do that?”My granddaughter called with a tax question the other day and, since it was a minor change that didn’t affect the final total and she’d already filed, I told her to forget it, because we’ve stripped the IRS budget […]
We’ll start and end with a cartoon-invoked memory today, and Mother Goose & Grimm fits right in with hurricane season, because in the late ’90s, a hurricane tore apart schools in Antigua and I ended up leading an effort among newspaper education programs to assist.My counterpart there was able to skirt the usual security problems […]
Mike Marland comments on the poor, delicate flowers in our Granite State legislature.I wouldn’t headline a regional piece like this, except that the New Hampshire state legislature often becomes national news in the form of “Can you believe these nuts?”It’s rare for any of the fringey, nonsensical bills that come up in the legislature to […]
Today’s Vintage Thimble Theater, which dates from September 4, 1930, struck me as extraordinary use of a generous canvas.Segar regularly had six panels at his disposal, and there were times when they were filled with dialogue, but this wasn’t one of them.Moreover, this was the third day in the “Popeye sneaks up on Snorky” arc, […]
There’s nothing Halloweenish in today’s Pajama Diaries, but I’m going to lead with it because it made me wonder how many children’s books were inspired by writers contemplating their junk drawers?Jill worries that one of those keys might unlock the secrets of a long-lost relative, but the locks on those old trunks, as with the […]
Harry Bliss makes the hair on my neck stand up.Thank god I live alone and don’t have to be told how to tie off a garbage bag. Or maybe not wanting to be told how to tie off a garbage bag is why I live alone.But this is the point where I release the bag, […]
I doubt anyone but Clay Jones would have had a Scalia cartoon ready by this morning. Not sure when he sleeps, but it doesn’t seem to be in any particular pattern.The GOP took the lead in demanding respect for the dead and simultaneously using it as one more political ploy, and their announced plan to […]
I gotta say, digging through the pile of New Year’s cartoons this morning didn’t yield a whole lot of ponies.Good Rule of Thumb: If the idea comes that easily, it probably occurred to everyone else, too.Whatever. You got credit for showing up on the holiday and the holiday is over.Now how’s about everyone getting back to […]
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 […]
Oh, good. I was hoping for a good Mother’s Day strip and Jeff Corriveau came through with a Deflocked that emphasizes yesterday’s point about character-driven comedy.Corriveau throws a lot of mud at the wall and it doesn’t all stick, but, when it does, it’s fabulous stuff.It’s hard to preserve the freshness of the Acerbic Animal, […]
50 years ago yesterday …If you missed yesterday’s posting, you may want to scroll down for the cartoons from April 13, 1914 and 1939. Meanwhile, here’s a selection from 1964. You may recall that this whole nostalgia thing began with my poking around for Civil Rights Act coverage. As it happens, this John Milt Morris cartoon […]
(Kal Kallaugher) (Matt Bors)A fascinating pair of commentaries from a couple of my favorite commentors.I’m having trouble figuring out why we seem so reluctant to take Karzai at his word when he tells us to get out.Maybe we’re expected to ignore it; Maybe the State Department recognizes it as some of that same posing we in […]