Okay, check this out: It’s almost as if Marshall Ramsey actually bothered to find out what “Hunger Games” was about before trying to work it into a cartoon!At this point, that comes as a double delight.First of all, it’s been an annoyance, since the blockbuster movie opened, to see lazy cartoonists, as well as some […]
Today’s Pajama Diaries – timed for “Take Your Son or Daughter or Other Underaged Dependent To Work Day” — brought a smile, coming as it did after a sourball article on the topic, which I read yesterday but now can’t find because it had been linked on Facebook, which means it has drifted away into the […]
ND Mazin is a well-established cartoonist in South Africa but new to me and possibly new to you. However, he is just launching a new version of an old strip, Azaniamania, which makes it a good time to jump on and see where it’s going. (This is one time when clicking on the strip to […]
When I first looked at today’s Rhymes with Orange, I thought it was going to be a riff on excessive government spending, tied in to the Secret Service scandal (such as it is) and the GSA scandal (which I’m tired of).There actually are secret government cafeterias, and the food there is reportedly rather above the […]
I usually rely on Red and Rover for my nostalgic trips back into childhood, but today’s Soup to Nutz, though the strip is ostensibly set in the present, brings up a memory from the Olden Days.For those too young to know, comic books in them thar days were partially supported by advertising, and the advertisers […]
Liza Donnelly posted this to her blog. I like it because it is open-ended, which goes back to last week’s rant that included an anecdote in which Ezra Pound (I think) snaps “It’s a poem. It doesn’t mean anything, lady. It’s just a goddam poem.”Well, this is just a goddam cartoon, but it’s brilliant and I’m […]
One of my favorite parts of The Brilliant Mind of Edison Lee is the stunned incomprehension on the faces of his contemporaries. They’re not hostile to him; they just can’t figure out what this kid is talking about, except that it isn’t what they’re used to.And the realistic part — and, in the creative arts, […]
Yesterday, I added little to Darrin Bell’s cartoon because it would have dulled the point of his commentary.Today, I can add little to Mike Baldwin’s Cornered because there’s nothing much to add except that it really, really cracked me up in the best possible way … after a pause.And then every time I looked at […]
I hadn’t really thought about this issue until Tak Bui brought it up today on PC and Pixel.Opticians use the term “tromboning” to describe a person moving their reading material back and forth, looking for the point at which their aging eyes will focus on it. And the older I get, the more tromboning I […]
Deflocked takes on one of the oddities of the current political circus.The USDA provides subsidies to schools for lunch programs, and has decided that, in order to qualify for assistance from taxpayers, schools should not add to the health problems of our nation’s children by serving them fatty, sugary, sodium-laden foods.This has been met with […]
Okay, this The City strip is actually from last week or last strip or however often Derf updates. GoComics doesn’t seem to be updating its non-dailies very well and I’ve had to go poke around for some of the political cartoons.Most of what I had missed was that apparently when Mike Wallace got to heaven, […]
I have a daughter-in-law who is a psychology professor and to whom I periodically send good shrink toons that she can use to liven up lectures or that may simply give her a laff. But I’ve told her she has to keep track of Pros & Cons on her own because it’s so consistently funny […]
If you haven’t been keeping up with Sally Forth, you’re not missing a lot of laughs. Sally has been ordered to make a boatload of personnel cuts, and Ces decided to let us watch the process, in large part, through the eyes of one of the potential victims of this edict.Which is not boffo laff-fest […]
The blossoming scandal over the General Services Administration’s fun-filled 2010 convention in Las Vegas was served up to cartoonists on a platter, by virtue of the GSA hiring a clown and fitting themselves out in silly costumes and then video recording the results.Matt Wuerker is one of several commentators who seem to have caught on […]
Today’s triple-feature starts out innocently enough, in Between Friends: Kids take for granted the technology they have known most of their lives.Admittedly, it’s a bit of a stretch to assume Danny doesn’t know people who don’t have multiple cell phones (grandparents?). But, even if he wouldn’t likely be unaware of the concept of a home with […]