CSotD: Sunday Afternoon in the Park with Laffs
Candorville (KFS) often blurs the lines between its main character, Lemont Brown, and its creator, Darrin Bell, but Bell’s latest…
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CSotD: Humor on the Offense
I sometimes feel that the kids in Baby Blues (AMS) have become a little too consistently bratty, but then I…
CSotD: Funny stuff, for the most part
We’ll start today with a Free Range (Creators) that doesn’t inspire any Great Thoughts beyond my memories of setting up…
CSotD: Sunday Kvetching
Arlo and Janis (AMS) offers some annoying truth about design over function. Granted, Arlo and I are both old enough…
CSotD: A Break in the Inaction
Macanudo (KFS) offers an uplifting thought, and we could all use one about now. There is a kind of conceptual…
CSotD: Screening gnats and swallowing camels
We’ll start with something non-controversial: A compliment to Dave Whamond not because this particular Reality Check (AMS) put me on…
CSotD: Remembrance of Things Mostly Past
I’m not in the mood for politics today and we’ll certainly get a heapin’ helpin’ whether I want it or…
CSotD: Peeves and Plaudits
Harry Bliss (AMS) lives about 20 miles south of me, which makes us neighbors, since he no doubt comes up…
CSotD: I hear laughter in the mud
If you’re gift-shopping for a middle schooler, here’s When Pigs Fly, a graphic novel we can pretty well guarantee they…
CSotD: Sunday Variety Pak
Reality Check (AMS) serves a heapin’ helpin’ of “Tom Swifties,” based on cartoon characters, Tom Swifties being a fad of…
CSotD: Humpday Humor
I saw a UFO or a UAP or whathaveyou back in 1969. I was lying in the grass like Red…
CSotD: Idealized goalposts
Today’s Barney and Clyde (WPWG) does a nice job of encapsulating the gap between what we say and what we…
CSotD: National Juxtaposition Day
Before we get into the Juxtapositions, a couple of cartoons that pinged me on a personal level. Macanudo (KFS) hits…
CSotD: Comics relief
Either Jeremy’s Mom in this Zits (KFS) has a lot more faith in bipartisanship than I do or she has…
CSotD: Quibbles, major and minor
Macanudo (KFS) gets it right. Since the election, inauguration and attempted coup, there’s been very little of any importance to…