Jen Sorensen isn’t the first cartoonist to work with the concept that the president has gone too far for too little, or that the Republicans are being not simply stubborn but purposefully obstructive. But I like the blandness of this Slowpoke, the way the matter-of-fact depictions clash with the absurd demands they illustrate.There are aspects […]
Penny Arcade is one of the major commercial successes in web comics. I realize “commercial success” can sound condescending in some contexts, but I mean it in a complimentary sense here: The strip is well-drawn, breaks some rules and attracts the kind of geek audience that hangs out on the Internets. In addition, its creators […]
Stick with me on this one, because, while for most visitors here, South Africa is a world away geographically and pretty remote in other ways as well, the ongoing squabbles between cartoonist Zapiro and President Jacob Zuma are an important study in press freedom and responsible political commentary.The latest news is that, although Zuma was […]
A quick return to “Big Nate,” because, having escaped with his life from Junior Lifesaving training, Nate has now joined the summer book club down at the library. He’s there for the snacks, but, as you see, he’s about to read a book.Or pretend to. We’ll see.At some point, perhaps in just a few weeks, […]
Agnes is a quiet little strip that delivers a chuckle on its worst days and, on its best, the horrified giggle you get by watching someone about to blunder into a travesty of your own most feared social anxieties. Sort of like watching Mannix walk into a dark room and knowing that he’s about to […]
Arlo & Janis touches upon one of the great truths of American education.It took me a little over a week, my freshman year, to realize, not that sophomores were all idiots, but that the biggest idiots on campus were all sophomores.I’d have tumbled to it a little sooner, but we had a week of orientation […]
In case anyone was wondering what it takes to become “Comic Strip of the Day,” here’s a quick lesson from Hilary Price of Rhymes With Orange: It doesn’t hurt to base your cartoon on something you read here.When Hilary asked to use the quote, my initial highly flattered reaction was to say yes and then […]
Between Friends has a grip on normalcy that works for me on a regular basis.I can, for example, remember those … um … interfaces with middleschool aged offspring in which you would begin to get this sense that it was no longer a debate or a discussion or even an argument but simply a test […]
I’m tied up for the next few days with some workshops for middle-school journalists, so will be posting some of the classic cartoons I used to show high school students in a presentation on the topic. This, of course, is a true classic, and one of the great obituary cartoons of all times.But why?When I […]
In Prickly City this past week, Carmen has had the opportunity to go on Bill O’Reilly’s show to debate Alan Colmes. Here is that debate in its entirety.I spent about a year and a half hosting a talk show on the radio in the early ’80s, and, while I’m not sure what my listeners […]
Non Sequitur presents us today with a Pearly Gates gag that addresses the theological question, “Can you hear about the doctrine of Limbo without thinking about the dance?” as well as the cosmological question, “Can you hear about the doctrine of Limbo without snickering even if you didn’t think about the dance?”I don’t know Wiley’s […]
The advantage of political cartooning over gag cartooning is that you don’t have to make things up. “Tom the Dancing Bug” only needs to put the news in a funny setting to turn it into humor. In this case, Ruben Bolling simply has the justices speak as if they were perfectly frank about what they’re […]
Before “Pros & Cons” was called that, it was called “A Lawyer, A Doctor and a Cop.” Here we see the first and third of them in not much of a conversation.Kieran Meehan has a merrily twisted view of reality, but it doesn’t keep him from having created characters with well-established and consistent personalities. Stan, […]
Are we at the point where I can just say “Michelle,” the way we once just said, “Jackie”?Michelle and the girls have been visiting South Africa, and it’s hard for anyone over 50 not to recall JFK’s quip, “I am the man who accompanied Jacqueline Kennedy to Paris, ” except that the president didn’t even come […]
And you thought Richard Thompson only dredged up long-suppressed memories of pre-school!Today’s Cul-de-Sac explores the last day of big-kid school by bringing back tortured memories of the locker bay, with comicdom’s favorite neurotic kid epitomizing the neurotic kid we all become when we think too hard about lockers. It’s a salute to Petey’s limited savoire […]