The droll, understated style of Wiley Miller makes him probably the best cartoonist to address this issue. Given deadlines, this would be quite a buzzer-beater if he had drawn it after Limbaugh’s attack, though there are times when the first cartoon of the next set can be more timely than usual. But I’m assuming he just picked […]
My only quibble with today’s Rhymes with Orange is that Farmer Brown Inc. isn’t waiting for the chickens to get past their egg-laying years.Though, of course, the hen is only passing on what she has heard.Fair enough. It’s a common mistake to assume some thread of logic in these matters.I reported on business for about […]
Dan Piraro hits on one of the great elements of not-getting-it in today’s Bizarro.Does anybody still use this word as a noun? I remember having a discussion about it in the newsroom about 20 years ago, but having a woman publisher and a woman city editor, it was a short discussion. Women students at Plattsburgh […]
Things could be worse, Dagwood.At least Blondie isn’t playing the “Guess which movie we’re watching tonight?” game with you. That’s the one where she says she’s going to let you pick the movie and then vetoes each of your suggestions until you get to the one she wanted to watch in the first place.Not sure […]
When I interviewed Jan Eliot back in 2003 (it says “1993” there, but don’t be fooled), she described Luci’s only-slightly-older brother Max thusly: “”Max is almost like a pet … He’s a little sprite, meant to be always clinging to Joan’s leg, that little piece of chaos which is the reality of a mom’s life. He’s […]
Signe Wilkinson comments on the latest school shootings, in a world where “school shootings” can be classified as “latest.”I like her approach, which avoids the self-important hyperventilation that generally follows these events, as Ruben Bolling pointed out a dozen years ago in the wake of Columbine:By contrast, Wilkinson has been consistent and pragmatic in her […]
As Wiley Miller’s Non Sequitur enters its 21st year of non-feigned outrage, he brings to a head something that has been roiling in the back of my skull for a couple of weeks now.People do, indeed, flood to the purveyors of feigned outrage, which, I would note, is not a partisan commodity. There is feigned […]
For a little over a decade, I would go into high schools and spend the day lecturing on political cartoons. I’d begin by talking about the partisan press, how, a century or so ago, each town had two papers — Republican and Democratic — and they would launch totally one-sided, predictable attacks on their opponents, which was […]
One thing I don’t understand in Zits is why Jeremy’s folks would let a young driver have a Volkswagen van. The first car should be some kind of tank that avoids damage to self or contents regardless of the ignorance or inexperience of the driver.That said, I had a red 1971 Volkswagen camper, which I […]
The Lost Side of Suburbia is a comic because it’s at GoComics and … well, no other reason. Actually, it’s a serialized, illustrated story. Or, rather, it’s a series of serialized, illustrated stories.And it’s brilliant.But don’t click that link yet, because you’ve got a little catching up to do first.The current story is so good […]
Arctic Circle, for the benefit of those who aren’t familiar with it, is designed to drive a certain type of reader mad because the main characters are penguins and, yes, I know and Alex Hallatt knows and constant readers know that these penguins purposely moved from their home in the Antarctic to the Arctic so […]
Reality Check, with a reminder of those left behind. Sigh. Poor Jeeves indeed.I never asked Jeeves much of anything because poorly constructed inquiries tend to send you off into the hinterlands, and it seemed to me that purposely making inquiries in “plain language” was an invitation to start in those hinterlands and then spiral your way […]
Caulfield has been setting up this scam in Frazz for a few days now, playing on the technicality that Mrs. Olson didn’t specify “US President” when assigning them to write a report.It’s been awhile since Caulfield pulled off a really epic prank like this. I enjoy them because it does create a flashback or two. My […]
Keith Knight again. We’ve really gotta quit meeting like this.As occasionally alluded to here, there is a group of cartoonists whose work I like so much that I judge them more harshly than others, in part to avoid getting into a rut where the same people are featured here all the time.Sometimes I think it’s […]
A departure from format today for something I think is well worth it.”My Friend Dahmer” is not a comic strip, though its creator, Derf Backderf, has been featured here for his strip, “The City,” more than once.It’s also not a graphic novel, despite the fact that, on its cover, it says “a graphic novel by […]