Big Bird as the takeaway from Wednesday’s debate has been a predictable boon for political cartoonists. Facebook Photoshoppers were putting gags up while the debate was still in progress, and the pros weren’t far behind them.Nick Anderson riffs on one element, which is the disparity between the goal of hunting down bin Laden and the promise […]
Harry Bliss touches a nerve on the eve of my annual physical.Kind of funny: When I called to make the appointment, the woman at the doctor’s office pulled up my records and was trying to schedule me for next month. I said that I had a prescription that needed to be renewed now, however, and […]
I’ve got nothing to add to today’s “Sherman’s Lagoon” except that I really enjoy the repeated assault upon suspension of disbelief, as well as Toomey’s ability to promote ecological awareness while keeping the strip constantly silly. I’ve mentioned the Bob Newhart timing factor in this strip often enough that I won’t do it again. Whoops.Note […]
Fresh from her engagement at the fabulous Kenosha Festival of Cartooning, Hilary Price gives us a vision of Pooh that backs up the basic pun with a bit of appropriate travesty.I love Rhymes with Orange because it’s not just funny but witty, which is not the same thing. The Pooh/Poe thing works, sure, and “Eeyore” […]
Today’s comics page brings something of a coincidence, but the topic sure comes from two different angles.In “Heart of the City,” it’s established that Heart and her mother have been two girls, living all together, but they are all alone (ear worms inserted free!). There was an arc years ago in which Heart met her […]
Ideas! Why, that bloody bleating goat Temple has ideas. MacCann has ideas too. Every jackass going the roads thinks he has ideas. — Portrait of the Artist as a Young ManI don’t know that Terri Libenson will get a lot of laffs from the general public for today’s Pajama Diaries, which may be too much […]
This is suddenly a really good time to pick up on some continuity strips, since several that are worth following are just starting new stories: Over at DailyInk, Rip Kirby has just had a confrontation on a twisty road with this woman who we now discover is a race car driver. The strip is from […]
Tina’s Groove hits one of my pet peeves: Businesses that put up websites and then ignore them.This comes, as it happens, on a week when old folks and trivia buffs are celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Beverly Hillbillies, which I mention because the early episodes had the Clampetts puzzling their way through their new […]
I hate Wednesday. Never mind Monday, though I do enjoy a nice plate of lasagna now and again.But Wednesdays are the worst day of the week, an embarrassment of riches with which I cannot cope. On Monday, cartoonists are introducing new arcs and the set up is not always a good stand-alone. Friday can be […]
One of the delights of the Internet is its ability to pull back the curtain on some otherwise unseen perspectives in our multi-cultural world. Here’s a cartoon that Miami-based Cuban exile Garrincha (Gustavo Rodriguez) posted to Facebook, along with a translated version: … and this brief explanation: Many Cubans in Miami hate to be labeled as “Latinos” […]
Today’s Ink Pen provides an example of how you can slip one past the goalie and leave readers rolling on the floor.At least, as far as I know, this is the first mainstream comic strip to even suggest a transgendered super hero that didn’t end up in the syndicate’s “I don’t think we want to […]
Mark Tatulli and Lio offer a final salute to Cul de Sac, which ends its roughly-five-year run today. And I do not believe that the selection of comic characters left behind was chosen at random, though there are many, many others he might have included in the Old Boys Club.Nor do I believe that today’s […]
I wasn’t able to find the original French-language version of this Damien Glez cartoon, so let’s just agree that it’s a lousy translation and deal, instead, with the substance, which I find compelling on a couple of levels.The Black-African is justified in questioning the violent response to a movie that, some speculate, has never actually […]
These are a pair of illustrations by Dylan Meconis, created for my educational series, “Stories in the Stars,” which was recently purchased by a major newspaper (a little over 300,000 daily). The paper has not yet announced the series, so I won’t name them, but they have paid for it, so I need to get […]
Matt Wuerker risks being burned at the stake for misbehaving at Occupy’s birthday party. You’re supposed to make a wish and blow out the candles, Matt, not extinguish them with a dash of cold water.And blowing out candles is about as effective a way of making wishes come true as anything Occupy appears to have […]