So I’m pretty much okay with growing old, and, no, not “older” in the chipper, gray-haired Peter-Pan jogger sense but in the sweaty, foam-flecked “past the clubhouse turn and into the stretch” sense. I was taking a shortcut through the cemetery yesterday and noted that there are people there who were kids for the War […]
While Dave Kellett has been working on the cartoonist documentary discussed yesterday, he has also continued to produce “Sheldon,” which vacillates between highly literate humor and silly pug-and/or-lizard jokes, which is one of its strengths.That is, both the highly literate and the silly return to the site regularly to see what he’s got going on. […]
“Is not a patron, my lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and, when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help? The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labors, had it been early, had been kind; but it has been delayed till […]
Jeff Danziger notes Elizabeth Warren’s recent questioning of Treasury officials, in which she asked when enough is enough.In case you missed it, the big quote was “If you’re caught with an ounce of cocaine, the chances are good you’re going to go to jail. If it happens repeatedly, you may go to jail for the […]
The death of Hugo Chavez has certainly divided cartoonists, as Chavez divided observers during his lifetime. Here, Lalo Alcaraz suggests that Chavez’s identity may stem from the prism through which he is being observed.A large number of cartoonists who have commented on his death picked up on his UN speech, which he began with a […]
Looks like we’re going to have to send the Comix Police out to round up a few scofflaws: Jef Mallett is not simply a repeat offender but verges on being declared a career criminal.It’s not enough that, in today’s Frazz, he violates one law of comic humor by offering up a pun without a final […]
“There are those who argue that everything breaks even in this old dump of a world of ours. I suppose these ginks who argue that way hold that, because the rich man gets ice in the summer and the poor man gets it in the winter, things are breaking even for both. Maybe so, but […]
The Brilliant Mind of Edison Lee on the gap between sustainability and marketing.When I was first married and back at college finishing up my degree — my grandfather having pointed out that I would waste less time doing that than I would waste in the future explaining why I hadn’t — we rented a house […]
If it worked as easily in real life as it does at On The Fastrack, I’d have been a video star at one paper.As it was, management did have someone go around identifying and marking spots for cameras and we all got appropriately indignant and paranoid, but it never happened.I suspect they discovered that it […]
Interesting day to see how some familiar gags can be repackaged: Monty has been on a trip through time and has, yet again, found true love. I know this is not breakthrough comedy, that the gag is a variation on all sorts of others, but there is something about Jim Meddick’s artwork and timing that […]
Luann is an odd mix of stasis and evolution.Over the near-30 years of its existence, Greg Evans has periodically moved the strip forward from its roots when Luann was a little kid to the current period, in which she is a high-school junior. These moments have included changes in both her age and some plot […]
xkcd is right, of course.And it won’t make a damn bit of difference.Back at the dawn of time, O Best Beloved, there was a man whose name I have forgotten but who was an acknowledged expert on such things, who insisted that there was actually no such thing as a computer virus, and that it […]
Pat Oliphant is one of the angriest recovering Catholics around, but, judging from what else is being said in cartoons and elsewhere, this is one of those cases where the insiders — even the disaffected ones — get it right and everyone else flails.Oliphant presents us today with a brilliant metaphor.To start with, in the […]
While newspapers fight for audience by removing all traces of uniqueness, character and community from their pages — this past week, the Record (no longer “The Bergen Record”) laid off editorial cartoonist Jimmy Margulies after 22 years — the late cartooning legend Herblock continues to support the form with an award each year from the […]
Drew Sheneman with a worthwhile comment on the meat scandal.He’s got a point, of course, and one branch of the vegan movement has to do with the moral/emotional implications of eating animals. Sentimental stories of 4H projects and Wilbur the Pig aside, farm children have for centuries come of age by learning to differentiate between […]