I said yesterday that there had been cartoons about the Dolphins’ harrassment issue but none worth passing along. Now here’s one that is, from Rob Rogers.The story is getting coverage beyond the sports page, as it should, for a couple of reasons.One is that, if you’re going to lecture our kids about bullying, you can’t […]
Brian McFadden is often too talky for my taste, but this time, his art-to-chat ratio works out well. I heard a little coverage of these hearings and some posturing Senator was demanding that Sebelius resign over the rollout, and I thought if I were in her place that I’d remind him that I served at the […]
Gonna start out with a couple of quick takes before getting onto a more substantive topic: It’s not so much that I like the current Sherman’s Lagoon, though I have been chuckling this week. But today’s was a good demonstration of the way Toomey handles a punchline.I haven’t made much of a secret of my […]
Dana Summers may not want to take this line of thought where I do, but he’s on the right track. The shooting-up of LAX has inspired some cartoons like this one by Darrin Bell, which is a general reflection on shootings in general … And this more (heh) targeted one by Steve Benson. I like all […]
Sheldon with a literary approach to the slippery-slope argument, or, from a slightly different perspective, the “How did we get here?” question.As to the specifics here, I remain unconcerned about the massive collection of data, simply because, as said I’ve expressed several times, it’s self-defeating on their part and has been self-defeating pretty much forever. […]
Rhymes With Orange gets some of its best laughs by pointing out the obvious.I don’t know if this has any connection to our hunter/gatherer roots, in which men were cast into a hostile, competitive world where the nail that stands up gets the hammer, or whether it’s simply perceptual.When I was a kid, my mother […]
(INSERT IMAGE: A whole lot of cartoons I’m not featuring here) The laziness and piling on is getting kind of discouraging. I wrote recently about how cheap, unexamined gags perpetuated the “Al Gore lies” phony meme, and, as I said then, there’s really nothing new about baseless partisan attacks, but at least the “Bob Dole is […]
For the most part, an “interesting” strip that doesn’t make me chuckle is unlikely to get top billing here, but Candorville is often a fairly straightforward piece of social commentary and since — other than his grammar-nazi issues — Darrin Bell generally mirrors my thoughts, well, here we are.(Holy Serendipity, Batman! What an opportunity to point […]
Let’s start in Denmark today. Well, in Scotland. But with a Danish story.Here’s one of HJ Ford’s illustrations from Andrew Lang’s 1894 retelling of Hans Christian Andersen’s “Thumbelina,” from “The Yellow Fairy Book”: And now we’ll go to Denmark.Or, the US. But it’s imported: And that’s Wumo, a newly syndicated strip that Michael Cavna writes […]
Today we roll out the big guns, and big in a couple of ways. First of all, they are large format books, which allows you to see the artwork pretty much as the artist intended.Second, they are big guns in that we’ve gone from “Oh, this will be fun! Thanks!” stocking stuffers to serious “Oh […]
While I’m off playing the wistful wallflower at a vendor’s table, here are some comic collections you may want to put on your list. Any list you like. I’ll even suggest who might like it:For your older and still obnoxious sibling: Rick Stromoski’s Soup to Nutz is not the only syndicated strip that serves up nostalgia […]
I’m going for the award for Most Obscure Headline. If you got it right away, you got an earworm with it. If not, we’ll get you one at the end.The reference is that, on days when I have nothing, I get nothing. On a morning like this, when I’m trying to get ready to split […]
My freshman year, I had a history course taught by the department head, which consisted of two very entertaining and informative lectures by him and a test section by his teaching assistants that had nothing to do with the lectures but was based instead on reading assignments.The history course I subsequently took in summer school […]
This is why you shouldn’t waste a good reference by overuse.As Jeff Danziger suggests, Edward Snowden has exposed the stunning secret that the United States spies on world leaders.What a great time to reference Louis Renaud’s quote from Casablanca: “I am shocked, shocked to find that espionage is going on in here!”But we’ve wasted its […]
I suppose I could have simply noted this as a “Juxtaposition of the Day,” but it happens to trigger a rant that’s been building up for about two weeks, but that I have been suppressing because being direct would have involved calling out particular cartoonists, a violation of the Prime Directive, and, besides, it also […]