What better, on the day after my blogging site goes down, than this delightful Jen Sorensen rant about Adobe’s toxic lock on graphics and layout?Not only does it continue the theme of our vulnerability to other people’s technical problems, but continues the insights into inner workings. (If you missed yesterday’s posting, please scroll down — […]
I’m just on the point (fingers crossed/wood knocked upon) of having a client sign off on a project that has been a lot of fun, a 14-chapter children’s historical fiction serial about a young fellow going off from Lachine, Quebec, into the high country as a voyageur in 1800.Collaborating artist for the project has been […]
(Freshly Squeezed)There was a joke going around the Soviet Union, back when such a place existed, about an attempt by the leader to burnish the image of the central government.I’m sure the role of leader in the joke was as quickly re-cast to remain current as the role itself was recast in reality, as that […]
One of the occasional features of “Tom the Dancing Bug” has been Super-Fun-Pak Comix, a dadaist piece in which Ruben Bolling mocks really drab, spiritless comics.Now Super-Fun-Pak Comix (that’s a different link) is a feature of its own on the GoComics site, presenting one drab, spiritless bit of mockery at a time.At a time when […]
There are a lot of cartoons about climate-change deniers around at the moment, but I’m more pleased to see Keith Knight go after the race-problem deniers, and do it in a way that is pointed and unambiguous, but also funny.Not everyone can pull that combination off.There was a story on an NPR blog the other […]
(Sally Forth) (Heart of the City)An interesting interplay — nearly a “juxtaposition” one might say — between Sally Forth and Heart of the City today. And, no, I don’t want to know what a strip would be like if Ted were the father and Dean were the kid. One of them per strip is probably […]
Yes. Exactly, Lee Judge.I guess Michael Sam is taking one for the cause, publicly announcing his sexual orientation before the NFL Draft almost certainly knowing he would be forced through a media circus. The sense I get is that he was no more or less likely to be drafted because of his announcement, because the […]
I haven’t seen a lot of Benghazi cartoons that — even when I agreed with them — weren’t kind of obvious. So I like this Kevin Siers cartoon because it’s also delightfully silly, and that may ultimately be more effective than trying to drive home the point that the Benghazi brigade cannot possibly have any […]
Some extraordinary news out of Providence, RI, to counterbalance the depressing news out of NYC.Norm Feuti has announced that reader outcry has induced the Powers That Be at the Providence Journal to reinstate “Gil” as a Sunday-only strip. For now, you’d have to either buy the ProJo or go here to see it, but Norm’s […]
Oh, good. I was hoping for a good Mother’s Day strip and Jeff Corriveau came through with a Deflocked that emphasizes yesterday’s point about character-driven comedy.Corriveau throws a lot of mud at the wall and it doesn’t all stick, but, when it does, it’s fabulous stuff.It’s hard to preserve the freshness of the Acerbic Animal, […]
This is going to be a backwards posting, and you’ll understand at the end. But, as long as it’s going to be backwards at all, it might as well be completely backwards:Juxtaposition of the Day (Bizarro) (Speed Bump)Well, obviously it’s not the same castaway. Better rescue Piraro’s guy first. Coverly’s guy says he’s fine for […]
At the end of yesterday’s screed posting, I promised to be funny today. It wasn’t a lie. I just didn’t know what would turn up on today’s menu to be commented upon.But Joe Heller’s take on climate change and science deniers is kind of funny, except, y’know, for the part where the fool votes. But […]
Comes word via a Facebook posting by Hilary Price that the New York Post is dropping its comic page as a cost-cutting move. I haven’t got a second source on this and don’t know her initial source, but I know and trust her personally, so while we can all hope someone got it wrong, I’m […]
Clay Bennett fights against the current of cartoons about the Supreme Court’s ruling that prayer before public meetings is okay.Most other commentary involves officials praying because they can’t solve various problems, which is a retreat into Will Rogers-style gov-bashing, a familiar take that will get you picked up by editors but that doesn’t advance the […]
If you aren’t already reading “The Heart of Juliet Jones” over at Comics Kingdom, this would be a good time to jump aboard.The main reason to read the strip, of course, is not to actually “read” it, but to enjoy Stan Drake’s artwork. However, the stories are not bad and much of the appeal of […]