Back from a quick road trip, and the fact that I wrote yesterday’s post in advance means I couldn’t feature this Edison Lee Sunday piece.I particularly like the last panel, which is excellent but not in a hopeful way. “Excellent” in depicting what we’re gonna do about it, which is to accept what we’re given.Maybe […]
In today’s Between Friends, Kim asks a question that all writers — and creative people in general — face, or, at least, ought to. The key is not what people want to read but what you want to say.It’s not that hard to see what is popular but there is that old Hollywood gag that what […]
While we wait for the rest of the Take A Knee cartoons to drift in, here’s today’s Prickly City, which is less entertaining for the particular strip itself as it is for the look inside the mind of a thoughtful conservative.”Thoughtful Conservative” sounds like an oxymoron but is more of an endangered minority. Granted, if […]
Today’s BC brings up the least important connection of the day, but brace yourself because today is going to be a festival of personal but irrelevant commentary.Yesterday, as we walked our dogs by the Connecticut River, fishing came up and I mentioned night fishing for bullheads, and that it involved worms, a fire, cigars and […]
I’m posting from a Holiday Inn in Denver on my last day out-of-pocket, and feeling a bit like this April, 2000, Arlo and Janis classic.I’m near the airport, I’ve got a noon flight and I have time to do a regular posting about today’s comics, but … well, first of all (Arlo side), I still have some […]
Start with a bit of Granite State humor. Stephanie Piro, one of the Six Chix, lives about an hour and a half east of me, and so, while that’s about as far apart laterally as you can get in this not terribly wide state, we’re sort of neighbors.She describes herself as “once a NYer, always […]
Nothing on the political scene strikes me as remarkable today, except for the can of worms Ed Hall suggests we open and dig into.That is, there are a lot of political cartoons based on Trump not paying taxes, but there’s nothing much new to be said about it, which is part of his Teflon campaign: […]
The “where to start?” question was answered this morning by Keith Knight, who nimbly addresses something I’d been pondering.I, too, had noticed that political diatribes have at least somewhat supplanted dumbass food postings on Facebook. And that the political diatribes are similarly dumbass, in that they have about as much relation to political reality as the recipes […]
I score about a .667 with xkcd, which is to say, about a third of the time, it’s too geeky for me to get the joke. That’s not a knock on the cartoon: I imagine there are people who don’t always get Tank McNamara because they don’t follow sports closely. I like the idea of […]
Sigh. And here I thought we were going to have a rant-free, look-what-made-me-laff day. And then Hilary Price went and drew this RWO.I’m a fan of dog rescue. But, boy oh boy, it sure is well past the point where cave canem and caveat emptor cross over.I have had Rhodesian ridgebacks for the past 30 […]
Some encouraging news from Heidi MacDonald, who reports that in-store sales of graphic novels were up 22 percent in 2015.She adds a couple of qualifiers to this cheerful announcement, beginning with some question about the accuracy of the measurement and the fact that juvenile fiction doesn’t break out graphic novels separately, but the overall report is good […]
Today’s Andertoons is one that could run about anytime these days, since there doesn’t seem to be a moment when someone isn’t pestering you for feedback.I bought a pair of Yaktrax online and, 24 hours after they arrived, got an email from the third-party supplier with the subject line “We need you to write an […]
I make no secret of my affection for Rip Kirby, but I don’t think it’s favoritism to declare today’s (well, July 31, 1956’s) strip to be the winner for best dialogue.In the new arc that started yesterday, this actress got a review in which it was suggested she’s no longer an ingenue, and she’s blaming […]
Yes, Anne. Yes, indeed.Last spring, I gave up political cartoons for Lent and it was very pleasant, but in times of crisis, you can’t just sit around pretending not to know what’s happening.On the other hand, there is still pie in the world and you shouldn’t neglect that, either. So I have no idea what sort […]
This is going to be a backwards posting, and you’ll understand at the end. But, as long as it’s going to be backwards at all, it might as well be completely backwards:Juxtaposition of the Day (Bizarro) (Speed Bump)Well, obviously it’s not the same castaway. Better rescue Piraro’s guy first. Coverly’s guy says he’s fine for […]