Okay, after two days of “Guess you had to be there” Andy Rooneyisms, here’s a Pardon My Planet that falls under the category of “I was there and I still don’t believe it.”While the young folks — that is, everyone under about 55 — get all rhapsodic about “Mad Men,” I watched a little bit […]
I haven’t featured Madam & Eve much here recently, not because it hasn’t been just as sharp as ever, but because — apart from them hogging all the good weather for the past several months — it’s been commenting on news stories that, like the aforementioned weather, haven’t really made it out of South Africa.That […]
Let’s start with Tom Toles’ latest, since it’s not only self-explanatory but a little over-explained. He didn’t have to drag Yogi along to show his source for a famous quote that perfectly mocks the false-logic of current attacks.If there is something encouraging in all this, it is that a constant drumbeat of misunderstanding, spin, exaggeration […]
The whole issue of St Patrick’s Day is fraught, given that it grew to prominence as a kind of civil rights march in the era of Know-Nothing bigotry and morphed into a nationalist event each year, raising money for the liberation of Ireland but has since somehow became the Stepan McFetchit monstrosity it is today.I […]
Well, back to the real world, but, before saying goodbye Columbus (bet they never heard that one before), some deserving leftovers that didn’t fit in the previous entries but were certainly worthy of mention and may push someone just past the balance point into deciding to come out here.And while I wonder — in the […]
King Features’ online offerings include a blog by the archivist that, at the moment, includes some memories, and much of the sales package, for Jeff MacNelly’s “Shoe.” You should go read that, but the short version is that MacNelly, who acquired some fame in editorial cartooning circles for proving that “conservative” and “funny” were not […]
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 […]
One thing that is becoming very clear in the modern, interconnected global village is that the global village is no longer a philosophical concept but a practical reality.I was talking to one of my granddaughters the other day and realized I had to explain that, years ago, when her father was overseas, the longer we […]
Over at the Mad Magazine blog, they’ve been having various staffers pick their favorite back covers as part of the magazine’s 60th Anniversary.So far, the choices had been ones that came after I’d stopped reading Mad, but this one is well-imprinted on my memory. The artist is Frank Frazetta, most of whose unequalled, astonishing work is […]
This Frank Reynolds panel from Punch is one of the most beloved classics in the medium among, of course, those who identify with the poor fellow in it. As a weekly newspaper columnist for several years and now nearly three-year daily blogger, I have no patience for the “I couldn’t think of anything” column, in […]
When I first looked at today’s Rhymes with Orange, I thought it was going to be a riff on excessive government spending, tied in to the Secret Service scandal (such as it is) and the GSA scandal (which I’m tired of).There actually are secret government cafeterias, and the food there is reportedly rather above the […]
I hate the oft-repeated nonsense that everyone is Irish on St. Patrick’s Day, but then I’m not so crazy about being Irish on St. Patrick’s Day myself, and I am proud to be Irish the rest of the year, as long as the plastic derbies and fuzzy shamrocks remain well out of sight.However, there is […]
The nice thing about a single-panel strip like “Rubes” is that, when Leigh Rubin gives in to the temptation to do a really stupid pun, he doesn’t have any space to tread on it by having characters “react.”I can’t tell you how many times I reject a strip for CSOTD because the cartoonist dulled a […]
There are people who hate puns, but I’ve never understood that. I generally don’t like bad puns that force you to mispronounce a word to make the joke work, and a long, involved pun is better than a short one. In most cases. But not always.In today’s Speed Bump, Dave Coverly makes a short pun […]