Frazz may have crossed another line today, but it cracked me up. I spend a lot of time around people who do seem to think their dogs need little treats shaped and colored like T-bone steaks, and who put them on expensive diets because they are convinced their pooches are gluten-sensitive.Mind you, Vaska’s buddies do […]
In “Heart of the City,” Dean is working on a new superhero comic and Heart is, as if often the case, less than impressed. Mark Tatulli seems to get more attention for his pantomime strip, “Lio,” than this older, more conventional strip, but there’s a lot to like in Heart.This is a moment of self-effacement […]
The Brilliant Mind of Edison Lee, with a commentary on the state of education.Edison Lee is a solid little strip that will celebrate five years of syndication in November, and John Hambrock has managed over that time to develop a good sense of the ridiculous, after a period in the early days of being too […]
You will really be missing something if you don’t go here and read this cartoon.On one level, the incident it bears witness to, the shootings of civilians by American contractors, is critically important and you should know about it. But let me get back to that.Dan Archer has created an interactive comic that uses its […]
This Deep Cover doesn’t really plow a lot of new ground, but it’s something worth saying, and it dovetails nicely with yesterday’s Matt Bors cartoon, in that there should be conservatives calling b*llsh*t on those who claim to be Christian but who apparently haven’t done the reading, starting with that bit about praying on […]
Okay, here’s why liberals lose elections: They’re not afraid to make fun of each other for taking things way too seriously. Matt Bors, I’m looking at you.When I heard about the Bert-and-Ernie petition, I assumed it was a joke and wondered why PBS took it seriously enough to even bother responding. And I thought the […]
Bill Holbrook is incredibly prolific, with three different daily strips going, two (On the Fastrack and Safe Havens) in syndication and one (Kevin and Kell) on-line.Fastrack is the geeky one and, as I struggle with a new computer, this gag rings just as true as it did in 2007. Yes, I know I can probably […]
While I’m off reminiscing with high school friends, a little humor from my college.When I went back to my 20th reunion at Notre Dame, I found myself talking to the undergraduates who were working the event. (Yes, just like the guys who used to chat with Zonker when Doonesbury did its annual reunion sequence.) As […]
Today’s Non Sequitur is ridiculous. I mean, you’d need a much deeper casket than that.Wiley will probably get a message saying that, only not joking. Plus some others, since kidding around about death tends to rile people and jokes about how you are buried twice as much.I find that the older I get, the less […]
Scott Stantis marks the start of another school year.Staples will soon begin running their iconic “It’s the most wonderful time of the year” commercials, which not only celebrate the fact that we hate having our children around, but also that stores can count on a nice boost this time of year.I was out of the […]
“Pints and Panels” is an interesting use of the medium that I think works very well for what Emily Sauter is up to.Blogging your life through cartooning has become popular, though today’s Cul de Sac points out a slight flaw in the concept:Putting something boring, dull and uneventful into cartoon format does not transform it […]
Today’s La Cucaracha must be provoking some hearty laughter in Lalo Alcaraz’s hometown of Los Angeles.It used to be that the Wall Street Journal was noted in the industry for an editorial page filled with raging, rightwing opinion pieces based on information clearly contradicted in its own pages by its own independent news department. (I […]
Judge Parker is one of the few continuity strips left and, of those few, one of the even fewer that seem to take the form seriously. As you can see from today’s strip, the previous story is wrapping up and a new one is about to launch, so this would be a good time to […]
Khalid Albaih, a Romanian-born Sudanese cartoonist currently living in Qatar, makes a simple point at Cartoon Movement.Or perhaps it’s not that simple.The current famine in southern Somalia, Southern Sudan, Kenya and Ethiopia seems to defy responsible coverage and that’s a good starting point:Both photojournalists and editorial cartoonists have a limited stage upon which to make […]
Thanks to John Deering of Strange Brew for providing the silly joke I was just in the mood for.Smokey stars in about as many jokes and cartoons as he does public service announcements. He has got to be one of the most successful promotional characters ever created. When I was a little guy, I thought […]