I’m choosing “or not,” because neither team is holding up licorice. In fact, it’s really hard to find licorice these days, at least the kind of licorice that would last you through a large part of the movie, or that you could bite off and then spit brown liquid and pretend you were a cowboy […]
Kim is losing her column and we’ll see where that leaves her. But her editor’s comment about not touching the comics is timely, because with Zits going into Mon-Sat reruns, our local paper is down to two current strips, Baby Blues and Pearls Before Swine. It also has six zombie strips and four reruns.Some zombies […]
I hope we’re done with the Peace Prize foolishness, but I got a laugh out of Sheneman’s take, and, while we don’t grade on quality of art so much as on quality of thought, he did a nice job of both.But it’s not the only thing happening, so let’s have aJuxtaposition of the DayA mountain […]
If you’ve ever been in a play, you know that after a rehearsal, the director gathers the cast and provides a list of notes on what went well and what could have gone better in hopes of improving the next run-through. Given the death of the paper in a major city, Bish’s use of the […]
Dave Brown offers the most generous take on Dear Leader’s tariff tantrum, in which he takes aim at the big bad world out there in his most America First way, but does more damage to Uncle Sam and his American constituents.It’s unintentional, but there it is: However random and nonsensical the tariffs placed on each […]
Zits (KFS) is starting a story arc that could mark a shift in the comic, with Jeremy and presumably his friends beginning the college search. The strip has a glacial pace, but that’s better than no pace at all, and, over the years, we’ve seen the kids get drivers licenses and cars and even a […]
Clay Bennett (CTFP) might instead have used a four-word slogan on that second shirt that ends “Find Out,” but it would have considerably reduced the number of editors willing to run it.The point is the same anyway: They listened to Trump, they did as he bade them, and, whatever happens to him, we’re seeing what […]
Fiona Kataukas makes what I think is the best overall assessment of what happened, what’s happening and what’s about to happen in Russia. And Belarus. And thus Ukraine. And thus Europe and NATO and our own 2024 elections, but let’s not get too far ahead of ourselves.As the fortune teller tells us, everybody can guess […]
Life is good, and I’m well past midlife, as depicted in this Non Sequitur (AMS). As for my mojo, either it’s gone or it’s become so fully embedded that I don’t fret over it. I do miss malls, though. I don’t think anyone is building them anymore and most of the ones I’ve seen lately […]
Pros & Cons (KFS) sets the mood for the day.Between what’s actually going on and what people are griping about, it’s getting tiresome out there. Maybe Lyndon avoids political talk out of patient privacy and maybe he avoids it because after eight hours, he’s had enough.But I’m not getting $75 an hour to listen to […]
We start with the grownups and this Kevin Necessary cartoon, which reminds me of the Stanford Marshmallow Experiment where they put a little kid alone in a room with a marshmallow in front of him on the promise that, if it was still there when the adult returned, the kid would get two marshmallows.In a follow-up […]
I have very little to say about today’s Pearls Before Swine except that it put me on the floor.Of course, the way to score with readers is to send up a common frustration, and spending a session in Touch-Tone Hell is a common frustration that the development of Voice Prompt Hell has done very little […]
Rico Schacherl, known in these parts as half the Madam & Eve team, has also been cartooning for Finweek, a business weekly in South Africa, where apparently management is just as hip as they are in the United States and elsewhere.Rupert Murdoch doesn’t have a computer on his desk either. I’ll bet he doesn’t even […]