One of the advantages of being on Facebook and Twitter is that political cartoonists often post their work as they turn it in, which is particularly important if they are relying on their paper or syndicate to post it online. It’s not unusual to see a cartoon 48 hours later simply, I assume, for a lack […]
I gotta say, digging through the pile of New Year’s cartoons this morning didn’t yield a whole lot of ponies.Good Rule of Thumb: If the idea comes that easily, it probably occurred to everyone else, too.Whatever. You got credit for showing up on the holiday and the holiday is over.Now how’s about everyone getting back to […]
Start with a fun one, from Piranha Club, where Bud Grace has been expounding on the pleasures of cruise ship vacations. For my part, you don’t have to exaggerate to make me not want to take one of these trips, though I’d be willing to book passage on a freighter, which is a thing you can […]
I start each day here with a relatively clean slate, but it’s impossible not to anticipate things a bit.Sometimes it’s as direct as a cartoon posted late in the day to which my response is, “Well, it’s gonna take a lot tomorrow morning to push THAT one off the page.”And sometimes it’s less specific.I came out […]
Gary Varvel’s cartoon conveys more about Donald Trump and the GOP than progressive cartoonists can get into a panel: Simply the expression on the elephant’s face tells where things are at this point for conservatives.The dotted line says more: Where is he headed? What comes next? Is there any plan here at all?As for the […]
We’ll start today with a David Horsey “Throwback Thursday” panel from 1994, mostly to spare me from trying to pick from among the flood of Indian/immigrant gags that come along this time of year.Not that they aren’t relevant under the current circumstance, but given the gap between what we say we believe in and what […]
Last week, I praised Humon as an artist willing to try variety and new things.Now the latest Tom the Dancing Bug makes an argument about the web as innovation killer, which, at first glance, seems counterintuitive. The promise of the web was that artists and musicians would no longer be in thrall to gatekeepers.And that’s true, […]
So, as long as we’re on the topic of peeking behind the curtain to see the stories behind the comics, here are a couple of other examples.Sherman’s Lagoon is one of my favorites because of Jim Toomey’s deft use of timing and character to create riffs that remind me of the Bob Newhart Show (the […]
I mentioned recently that I’m trying to avoid TLDNR Syndrome. Today offers a chance, since a lot of cartoonists have served up strips that require little elaboration.Much as I contend that a good strip makes you laugh because it made you think, there are ones that make you laff, which is different. They still raise […]
Comes word via a Facebook posting by Hilary Price that the New York Post is dropping its comic page as a cost-cutting move. I haven’t got a second source on this and don’t know her initial source, but I know and trust her personally, so while we can all hope someone got it wrong, I’m […]
There’s a traditional practice in comicstripology of analyzing news to project lead time, and a more modern practice of analyzing it to project print circulation of a strip.Which is to say, if a strip can comment on current news, it’s probably web-only or nearly so.Print clients like having strips in hand well in advance, and […]
As it happens, the first “oooh, I like that one!” of this morning’s trip through the funnies came at Rhymes With Orange. Little did I expect RWO to set the agenda for the day.Hilary Price specializes in wry, observational humor. This is not funny, but it’s a very good observation and needs to be said.Often. And […]
Dave Kellett on what may be the most annoying feature of an increasingly annoying Internet. As it happens, I ranted about LinkedIn almost exactly a year ago. I signed up because everyone said you had to sign up, then realized there was no real point in it and tried to escape, but, like Sheldon’s grandfather, I […]
Good morning, Rhymes with Orange and, yes, that’s what day it is.I shut off my cell phone last night because it would have reset for Daylight Saving Time and then woken me up at an hour at which I did not wish to wake up. I fretted over the possibility of posting late and then […]
Since this arc on Betty has just started, I’ll give you both yesterday’s and today’s. Such a deal.Betty is a kind of stealth strip because it doesn’t get a lot of chatter and it doesn’t often knock you onto the floor with laughter, but it regularly sneaks up behind you with intelligent humor and commentary.I’m sure this […]