I just want to point out that I was a sucker for “Dog Eat Doug” well before I began raising a puppy. But certainly I have to admit that I’m more vulnerable now than ever.Brian Anderson has a deft touch and is able to put funny, adult-style thoughts into Sophie’s head without turning the […]
The defense lawyer in “Pros and Cons” has been attempting to impeach the prosecution’s witness by pointing out that he is earning a reward for the evidence he is providing.It hasn’t been going very well.
“Freshly Squeezed” is a comic strip by Ed Stein that went into syndication three months ago, but is based on a strip called “Denver Square” that he did for a little over a decade in the Rocky Mountain News.Which newspaper, you will note, no longer exists.Ed brought back the major characters from “Denver Square” […]
In this week’s Tom the Dancing Bug, Ruben Bolling brings the Wikileaks case into focus: Although the Nixon White House attempted to keep the New York Times from publishing the Pentagon Papers, the Supreme Court ruled against them. And, as he notes, there is a long established tradition that the free press is permitted to […]
The Wikileaks cartoons are beginning to hit the comics page. Lots of Wikileaks cartoons. Santa’s list seems to be the most common tie-in.This one by Ward Sutton was pretty good, since the more you know about (A) Wikileaks and (B) Suess’s body of works, the funnier it becomes. Riffing on either is tough to do […]
Today’s Stone Soup stands up well enough on its own, but to absorb the full effect of the bathos, you have to have been following the saga of “Holly’s boyfriend” since it began nearly a full month ago. We’ve not only gone through the sturm und drang alluded to here of Holly’s mom insisting on […]
Darrin Bell treads some interesting lines with his strip, “Candorville.” From what little I know of his personal life from Facebook and suchlike, it does, in some ways, reflect what he’s going through, but not in a journalistic sense. Rather than recounting real-life events in the strip, he seems to use them to inform the […]
When the glurge and dreck of the season become too much, you can always count on Retail to keep it real. Never mind jokes involving elves — these are the people who really have to deal with the demands of the holidays.The nice thing about Retail is that you don’t have to have put in […]
There are certain strips that I have to restrain myself from putting up here too often. They’re so consistently inventive that they could be here once a week if I didn’t exercise some control and realize that, if you haven’t begun following them, you’re probably not going to.But, while I’ve already mentioned Prickly City’s move […]
In last week’s post, noting Prickly City’s move from the desert to Washington, DC, I said that Scott Stantis is unique among conservative cartoonists in that he’s willing to go where the jokes are, even if he crosses a few lines to get there.For instance.
As I’ve noted before, Arlo & Janis’s cat, Ludwig, is a realistic feline. I’d go so far as to say that he is the most realistic pet in all of comicdom, and part of that is evident in his facial expressions today. Cats have an innocent ability to live in the moment that dogs do […]
Unfortunately, he won’t keep it up into next month. Cleats, one of my favorite strips, is ending this week, which explains the recent poke Bill Hinds took at unscientific “reader polls.” Follow along as a talented cartoonist wraps up what has been a really good family strip.
On the Fastrack, one of Bill Hobrook’s three daily strips (!), is office humor, which tends to be a little tedious, but Hobrook has mitigated that threat by centering on high tech humor and letting the Dagwood/Dithers cliches at least play out in a more focused arena. There are days it is incredibly geeky […]
At least 20 newspapers declined to carry this Non Sequitur, requesting a rerun instead. In addition, Western Printing, a company that prints Sunday comic sections for smaller papers, refused it.Read it at your peril. It will likely corrupt your soul.
(This interview with Garfield creator Jim Davis is one of a series of cartoonist profiles I did in 2003 for the Post-Star of Glens Falls, NY)Garfield was born where a lot of cats are born: In the basement. He sure didn’t stay there. Jim Davis had worked for nine years as an assistant on the […]