I’ve featured Sarah Laing’s blog enough times that I hesitate before citing it again simply because I suppose that, if you like this sort of thing, you’ve got it bookmarked for regular visits on your own. And if you don’t, well, then today turns into “Is he going on about her again?”Indeed he is, because […]
Thomas Yeates debuted yesterday as the new artist for Prince Valiant. I tend to be more prone to dissect stories than go into detail on artwork, but the art has always been a critical element in Prince Valiant.Yeates (I find) has drawn swords before, not like Mercutio but in the sense relevant to this blog. […]
Tom Toles, with a retrospective of sorts that ought to scare some sense into those who would rather not vote at all than vote for a candidate with whom they don’t agree on every item, or who doesn’t do exactly everything they hoped he would.Message to the Purists: Someone is going to get elected, whether […]
Jimmy Margulies with a commentary on the Pope’s visit to Cuba. It is a genuinely rare moment when a political cartoon makes you think and also makes you laugh. Generally, one aspect is sacrificed for the other.He got’em both.And he got’em good, because, despite all the people who got on boats or something else that […]
A consumer tip from xkcd along with its own disclaimer in the form of a punchline. And, as always, you should go back to the site for the roll-over gag.”Gag” being operative in this discussion of Cadbury Eggs, which are kind of fun but in a candy-corn sense of “Okay, you’ve celebrated the season. Now go […]
Today’s Rhymes With Orange is sort of a bathetic response to yesterday’s diatribe on the importance of alone-time. (I thought I was making up that word, but I looked it up and it actually exists. Well, good. It ought to.)Hilary Price celebrates the eccentricities of the inner life better than anybody in the business, and […]
It’s All About You may have to go on my list of comics I have to resist putting on here too often.Today’s strip, however, is about something that concerns me and, although I’ve touched on it in other contexts, I don’t know that I’ve addressed this full face: We really are “amusing ourselves to death,” […]
Every once in a while, a comic scores on every level without being at all cosmic on any of them.Today’s Baby Blues does just that, and I think the key is the blankness with which Wren absorbs the things around her. On one hand, this appear to be a variation on the strip in which a […]
Matt Bors on the Trayvon Martin shooting.The shooting has provided an opportunity to watch the responses of a variety of cartoonists, though, to be honest, I haven’t seen any defending what happened. But I’ve seen some that take one element and run with it, including a lot of “guns are bad” cartoons that base their criticism […]
Mamet has become a maple producer in this week’s Deflocked.Jeff Corriveau grew up in maple syrup country and, as someone who did the same and has lived in some other maple-producing areas since, I can see hints of his knowing what he’s actually joking about in this story arc.Which may not seem like much, but […]
On some days, my interest in one strip stems from it being closely related to another. That could be from two strips riffing on the same topic, as with Arlo & Janis:I’m kind of worried about smartphones, because I see them as an extension of the electronic leash, and I used to feel that way […]
There’s a thing going around — oh, sorry — got to start over …There’s a meme – which is much more important than “a thing going around” — that exists under a few different names, but which can be tracked down by Googling “Superman is kind of a dick.” It consists of covers of old DC […]
Gil offers his mother some important consumer advice. Charmingly naive coming from a kid, really annoying coming from your local TV station’s news team.Not that the reporter usually assigned to this one is a whole lot older or more worldly than your eight-year-old.We’ve got a new Hannaford grocery store in town and it’s best, most […]
Perhaps everyone was anticipating Spring, but today spawned three pretty good dog park cartoons. Or, rather, two pretty good dog park cartoons and this Overboard, which is more of a “We need a dog park” cartoon:Our dog park was wiped out in August by the same hurricane and flood that, but for some late night […]
There isn’t a lot of wit in this Tony Auth cartoon, but there isn’t a lot of need for wit on this topic.To start with, most political cartoons use exaggeration to create that humorous irony and there’s nothing left to exaggerate. The situation is already pushed so far to the extreme that you can’t take […]