An AI cartooning roundup: The Baltimore Sun continues it abominable images. Did Editor & Publisher join The Baltimore Sun in corrupting its pages with AI cartoons? The Hamilton County Reporter mends its AI cartoon ways. Cartoonists’ styles being stolen by AI prompters. The Baltimore Sun continues its weekly(?) printing of editorial AI illustrated commentary. This […]
Whamond slipped a reality check into Reality Check this past week to remind us that summer is drawing to a close. I don’t mind that, since autumn is my favorite time of year and this past summer was awfully hot anyway.But his timing was extraordinary, because this ran on Friday and just the day before […]
Despite the feature image and the opening item this is a post about comic strips. Three Days a Week at the Two Party Opera Last month Brian Carroll, after five years of a very erratic and sporadic schedule, has returned his Two Party Opera comic strip to regular thrice weekly appearances. Carroll employs past and […]
A lot of comics have pinged memories lately, but we’ll start with an unpleasant one, because Merthiolate and Mercurochrome were indeed the go-to antiseptics for small cuts and scrapes back in the day, and here’s more than you need to know about them. They were a good reason not to go crying to your mother […]
First, here’s the Red Card Menace:Just when you think Dear Leader has run out of ways to make everyone in the world hate us, he pulls this. They all laughed at him when he got that stupid pretend Peace Prize, but everybody assumed that was going to be the end of it. As I’ve said […]
Got a case of the collywobbles from Sunday’s Lio, because this is the time of year I used to be coaching the spring season of soccer back when I had small children.I also coached in the fall season, but that was run entirely by the local youth soccer league, and the kids who played then […]
Nancy Beiman gave us a three week notice of the annual “holy day.” The others mostly waited until today. Today comic strips transition from World Press Freedom Day (not mentioned at all) and National Star Wars Day (many references yesterday) to National Cartoonist Day/Cinco de Mayo. Or Inko de Mayo.Lalo Alcaraz and Chip Sansom weren’t […]
I’m always pleased when I can start Humpday with a cartoon that reflects something I was just thinking of, and I’ve been amused lately by old retired guys grocery shopping with their wives when it’s obvious that she’s been doing the task for decades and he’s wandering through Wonderland. She’s explaining the different kinds of […]
Surprise Scrolling down the feed there was a shock to the comics identification system. Yes, I recognized the pair as Henry and Alice Mitchell but boy were they looking different. A new artist for Dennis the Menace! Continuing the scroll the “new” artist was Scott Ketcham who for a decade and a half has been […]
Comic Strip News and Reviews. What comic is this? If I was shown just the above detail from one of this week’s comics I would never have guessed its origin. (Answer at the bottom.) Walt Wallet has fallen asleep during the church service this wee in Gasoline Alley and dreams of going to heaven. The […]
Before diving into today’s comics let’s give a little throwback love to Percy Crosby. That was a beautiful Skippy panel that Skippy Inc. and GoComics ran two days ago. It really makes us yearn for the days when cartoonists had the acreage to display their pen and ink talents. Hat tip to Jef Mallett for […]
It’s getting really hard to avoid politics on Hump Day, but, then again, everything Roz Chast does is political in the wider, sociopolitical sense. It’s generally true anyway, because even a Three Stooges pie fight is based on working class hatred of the wealthy and privileged.There’s a kind of John Oliver/Jimmy Kimmel penetrative insight going […]
When I was the at-home parent, I did most of my writing at night, and I had a clock on my desk set for 12:30, in part because I needed the reminder to get to bed, but also, as Kim notes, as a matter of quality control. Anything I wrote much after 12:30 was going […]
Thank God it’s Hump Day, coming just as things began to be scary. But we’ll ease into the humor with Rabbits, which would be echoing what I said yesterday except that this strip ran Sunday. Credit where credit is due, and much of the suspense ahead is seeing if the public rises to challenge the […]
Bennett’s day-after cartoon would have been easy to nit-pick a year or so ago, because half of us wanted the exchange immediately while half of us were pleased, so using Uncle Sam would have been unfair.However, waking up on Boxing Day to find that he bombed another country and then spewed about 150 screwy messages […]