Non Sequitur, with an observation on the state of reality television and, thus, on the state of reality.”Reality television” has always been somewhat artificial, simply because editors and producers make decisions on what you’re going to see. This can range from something as innocent as cutting out the boring parts to the common-but-misleading policy of […]
In today’s Non Sequitur, Wiley correctly points out the absurdity of whateverthehell is going on the minds of some gentlemen, many of whom may be Republicans. I’m making no generalities, no assumptions, no accusations.After all, it’s not fair to assume, for example, that the majority of members of the Augusta National Golf Club are Republicans. It […]
The droll, understated style of Wiley Miller makes him probably the best cartoonist to address this issue. Given deadlines, this would be quite a buzzer-beater if he had drawn it after Limbaugh’s attack, though there are times when the first cartoon of the next set can be more timely than usual. But I’m assuming he just picked […]
As Wiley Miller’s Non Sequitur enters its 21st year of non-feigned outrage, he brings to a head something that has been roiling in the back of my skull for a couple of weeks now.People do, indeed, flood to the purveyors of feigned outrage, which, I would note, is not a partisan commodity. There is feigned […]
Actually, just about any caption would have worked with this Non Sequitur headstone gag. After an hour or so of reading strips in which the characters fall asleep before midnight on New Year’s Eve, I was beginning to chuckle over the “This feature did not update” messages.But I’d have liked this one anyway. Headstone gags […]
Lawyer jokes are too easy, but that doesn’t mean you should avoid them entirely. Otherwise, we’d miss things like today’s Non Sequitur.I don’t dislike lawyers in private life. They are, for the most part, intelligent and well-informed, with a quick wit necessary to the profession which is then further honed on years of noting irregularities, […]
Today’s Non Sequitur is ridiculous. I mean, you’d need a much deeper casket than that.Wiley will probably get a message saying that, only not joking. Plus some others, since kidding around about death tends to rile people and jokes about how you are buried twice as much.I find that the older I get, the less […]
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 […]
A vignette of coastal life from Non Sequitur.Wiley Miller has been living on the stern and rockbound coast of Maine for about a dozen years now, but, given that he moved there from the stern and rockbound coast of Santa Barbara, he’s probably seen french fries filched several times.People say that pigeons are “rats with […]
The idea in today’s Non Sequitur that a network news organization would report on something this ridiculous on the basis of a single tweet is, of course, ludicrous. But that’s what humor is about: Taking reality and exaggerating it to an absurdity.In real life, they wouldn’t report on it until it had been re-tweeted at […]
Non Sequitur on the disconnect between what people say they want and what they want.A lot of politics involves telling people what they want to hear, or telling them things in a way that makes them think that’s what they wanted.For the Fidel Castros, Moammar Ghadafis and Mahmoud Amahdinijads, that means keeping them from […]
(Editor’s note: An earlier version of this posting assumed a later kickoff. The wretched excess factor remains intact.)Sometimes it takes a bit of soul-wrenching personal experience to make a cartoonist sensitive to the wrongs of this world.Non Sequitur creator Wiley Miller moved from California to Maine a few years back and seems very happy […]
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.