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 […]
I enjoy Sinfest even when I don’t know what in hell is going on. Or what on earth is going on. Or even what in heaven is going on.The last couple of weeks have seemed a little vague in that regard, but the art always makes it worth dropping in, and I think that’s one […]
Betty and Alex have spent the week at a coffeeshop fussing over this zen garden. You rarely know how much real-time time is being depicted in a story arc, but I’d say finding enlightenment in the time it takes to drink a cup of coffee is about par for the course.Any deep moral teachings that […]
A departure from format today because of a bit of serendipitous synchronicity (as in the best it is). Two cartoons, not in opposition, not exactly in concert, but worth viewing together and not just in that NPR “on this hand but then again on the other hand” way.Matt Bors has posted this observation …… while […]
Today’s Gil will probably ring truer with those of us who work from home, as opposed to that cute girl from New Hampshire who works at home and is seen in ads in the margins of all the articles I read on-line.She makes so much money that I’m sure she has hired someone to watch […]
I often get it down to two or three strips and then have to make a final decision.Today’s Ink Pen was — as is often the case — one of those two or three, but I’ll admit sentiment tipped the balance, given that the first posting on this blog was two years and 10 days […]