I meant to put up a “new story” alert the other day when this arc launched at Pirate Cove, but it’s not too late to jump on board. That’s not an off-hand remark: Story arcs at Pirate Cove tend to go on for months and to become absurd and convoluted to the point where dropping in […]
Hats off to Terri Libenson for a fresh take on what is generally one of the lamest days of the year on the comics page.Granted, she’s riffing on the now-iconic movie rather than the over-promoted tradition itself, but I’m also giving her credit for an overall breakthrough: The new wrinkle for the “over-worked mom” theme […]
Black Friday and Cyber Monday, with their pretend-bargains and ginned-up gotta-shop hype, have ended and yet Christmas and portions of Hannukah remain.I recently posted some shopping suggestions for comics fans here and then here, and, if you didn’t look then and you’re shopping now, well, there they are.Now some additional possibilities for shoppers who haven’t […]
Pajama Diaries on the nonsense of “healthy snacks” in an unhealthy world, or, as I like to think of it, the persistence of comforting delusions.Dear-lord-forty-years-ago, I belonged to a food co-op in Denver that, when we joined, was one of those co-ops where you ordered your three pounds of raw cheddar, your two pounds of […]
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 […]
Terri Libenson certainly isn’t the first cartoonist to riff on how much school curriculum has changed since she was a kid, but today’s Pajama Diaries is different than ninety percent of the “new math” gags of old in that it isn’t just “they always have to change everything” but, rather, “wow, kids are learning some complex […]
Arctic Circle sometimes riffs on snow-and-ice jokes and sometimes features non-arctic humor. Sometimes it’s silly and sometimes it’s got some bite. Which is to say, it’s a mix of igloo jokes and humor based on the very real threat of global warming. With occasional forays to the coffee bar.What I like about it is that […]
Ideas! Why, that bloody bleating goat Temple has ideas. MacCann has ideas too. Every jackass going the roads thinks he has ideas. — Portrait of the Artist as a Young ManI don’t know that Terri Libenson will get a lot of laffs from the general public for today’s Pajama Diaries, which may be too much […]
My life, as drawn by Sandra Bell-Lundy in today’s “Between Friends.”And it’s worse than this.The best part of telecommuting is that you can sit at your computer all day in your sweats. And, since everyone who knows your work is hundreds of miles away, if you need to go out and buy groceries, you don’t […]
Today’s Pajama Diaries – timed for “Take Your Son or Daughter or Other Underaged Dependent To Work Day” — brought a smile, coming as it did after a sourball article on the topic, which I read yesterday but now can’t find because it had been linked on Facebook, which means it has drifted away into the […]
Terri Libenson’s “Pajama Diaries” is about a mother who works at home, and one aspect of her life is that she is Jewish. That aspect isn’t what the strip is about, but it’s a key component of the family, as religion tends to be in real families that practice a religion.And I think that, for […]
Derf Backderf addresses the most important question about the Borders closing: Whaaa?I don’t get it.I get the cartoon. (Though you’ll probably need to click on it to get a legible sized copy) What I don’t get is the outpouring of grief over the closing of a crappy big box retailer that had aided in the […]