Liza Donnelly’s brief-and-eloquent reflection on the upcoming commercial holiday and the roles of dads and moms comes at a particularly interesting time.I’ve been visiting my son and his family. His wife has just completed her first year as a professor at a well-respected liberal arts college while he has been substitute teaching and staying home […]
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The Team Cul de Sac auction ended last night, raising a total of $47,107, including the auction house’s 19.5% buyers’ premiums, which, by my never-reliable calculations nets out to about $38,000 going to the Michael J. Fox Foundation.Not surprisingly, the portrait of Petey by Bill Watterson was the top item, leaping at the end to […]
I’m not sure this is the term that will stick, but Bizarro is certainly on the right track.I flew this week for the first time in a year, and it gave me a chance to see the extent to which the smartphone has gone from early-adaptor gadget to business-person necessity to mainstream narcotic.Based on what […]
I’m pretty sure I know Steve Sack’s point here, but I find the cartoon a more eloquent statement of the dilemma than a justification for the use of drones.The war of insurgency was not the invention, or exclusive provence, of Ho Chi Minh. Ahmed Ben Bella was orchestrating a similar decentralized opposition to French rule […]
Zits is an odd mix of old-line jokes about messy bedrooms and giant backpacks and new gags reflecting how young people actually live.Obviously, I wouldn’t be featuring a messy bedroom gag here, which is not to say that kids today clean up their rooms. Some do, some don’t, but it’s not exactly a bottomless well […]
I don’t often agree with Ted Rall, but I keep up with his cartoons because of moments like this.I used to have a talk on this very subject that I would deliver to Rotary Clubs and other similar gatherings of potential sponsors for my newspapers-in-education programs, and I’d use the Beatles’ appearance on Ed Sullivan […]
Thank you, Wiley Miller.After the incredible flood of lame, uninformed cartoons about the Facebook IPO, somebody finally points a finger in the right direction.To use a sports analogy, the Facebook IPO has been similar to the drafting of Tim Tebow.Prior to the draft, experts — that is, people who know how the game is played […]
We’ve covered cartoonists who report from the Middle East, from Appalachia, from Congo. Now Jen Sorensen reports from her own backyard with a piece that gains its impact from just how normal and mundane her life is. And, as she notes, unsustainable.(Follow that link to read the rest.)The “Open Letter To The Supreme Court” is, of […]
Funniest part of today’s Arlo & Janis is that I didn’t place it from the first bit of dialogue, but I read it with the accent anyway. Which is to say, yeah, I got it from the start, but only back in the reptilian portion of the brain, back in the longterm storage bins.It took […]
In Candorville, Darrin Bell uses a multi-panel approach to commentary as well as, and generally better than, anyone else out there.His use of understated conversations rather than pious lecturing is very effective. By setting up the incongruities and then letting them dangle in the air, he forces the reader to finish the point, and engaging […]
PC & Pixel with a cartoon that doesn’t try to do more than create a smile, and does it well. This demonstrates a point, which is that you don’t always need to think up a punchline. To start with, neither character is necessary for this gag. It would work in an empty gallery.But the use of […]
Sheldon, one of the more intelligent comics around, with an observation about stupidity.Or, really “cupidity,” since a lot of the stupidity on the Internet is simply a case of click-farming. This whole thing of “On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a dog” has gotten a little out of hand and has morphed into “On the […]
Jeff Danziger on the kerfuffle over Trump’s endorsement of Romney, in a cartoon that over-analysis only improves.Rodeo clowns went through a period when they insisted on being called “bullfighters” rather than “clowns,” but, unlike pundits, they seem to have gotten over that and have embraced their dual role of protecting the cowboys while they entertain […]
Reply All is the Cathy of the New Millennium or of the 20-teens or whatever we’re calling this period.Well, no, it isn’t. But you have to start somewhere, and that’s the historic parallel.Younger readers think of Cathy as a strip where this neurotic woman just tried on bathing suits and ran around screaming “Ack! Ack!” […]