How did it come to this?I’m hoping Retail is about to launch into an entire arc about the despicable lack of restraint in the “free market” that we have built for ourselves.I never resented working holidays when I was in the newspaper business, any more than I would expect my son and daughter-in-law to object […]
Cul de Sac ends its official run next week, though it’s actually been in rerun mode for some time now as friend-of-the-blog Richard Thompson works on the health problems that brought about the strip’s end.Perhaps feeling reflective, or maybe just in one of his frequent Puckish moods, Richard posted some pre-launch Cul de Sac strips […]
One of my favorite parts of The Brilliant Mind of Edison Lee is the stunned incomprehension on the faces of his contemporaries. They’re not hostile to him; they just can’t figure out what this kid is talking about, except that it isn’t what they’re used to.And the realistic part — and, in the creative arts, […]
Gil offers his mother some important consumer advice. Charmingly naive coming from a kid, really annoying coming from your local TV station’s news team.Not that the reporter usually assigned to this one is a whole lot older or more worldly than your eight-year-old.We’ve got a new Hannaford grocery store in town and it’s best, most […]
Today’s Gil will probably ring truer with those of us who work from home, as opposed to that cute girl from New Hampshire who works at home and is seen in ads in the margins of all the articles I read on-line.She makes so much money that I’m sure she has hired someone to watch […]
Tom Spurgeon points readers to this collection of Winsor McCay editorial cartoons. They are presented without context and appear to be illustrations for editorials rather than freestanding cartoons, but they do have their years attached to their file names, and this one is from 1914.It immediately put me in mind of this passage from Jacob […]