I often have to pause and decide whether to put a Paul Noth piece in the political folder or the humor folder. Even his cartoons that don’t seem to reference a particular politician have significant bite.Obviously, this one hints at a specific person, but it contains an element of plausible deniability, not that cartoonists need […]
There comes a time when each man must come to grips with the truth, though, as shown in Mr. Boffo, it may turn out that nobody was fooled in the first place.Framed here in Joe Martin’s “How dumb can you get?” style, it’s funny, but if you overthink it — and I’m a champion at […]
I don’t know how far ahead Jef Mallett works on Frazz (AMS), but he hit this one squarely: Michigan, where he lives, looks to be hovering around freezing for the next week but in no particular danger of snow before Christmas.Here in New Hampshire, we got just under a foot yesterday and it seems likely […]
As we’re discussing, debating and dissecting the current state and potential future of cartooning, Will Henry is going off in his own direction with Wallace the Brave (AMS), in which he has created a distinctive cast of characters but is not content to have them do setups and punchlines every day.Today’s strip is a good […]
Oh, thank you thank you thank you, Deb Milbrath, for commenting on this ridiculous GOP talking point, which is based on misreading a story in a sleazy British tabloid, in which the writer conflates an almost entirely unrelated study with the Green New Deal with Biden’s acceptance of some GND concepts.I was hoping for the […]
Real Life Adventures (AMS) is more of an “Ain’t it the truth?” strip than a “Fall on the Floor” laugh-a-thon, and here Wise and Aldrich tap into something universal in the pandemic.My own pup, Suzi — seen here at the right in a conference with two of her friends from the park — knows exactly what […]
Sheldon (independent) pretty well sums up the hazards of knowing what’s going on in the world, and the last two or three days have been astonishingly toxic and depressing.I woke up this morning and found my newsfeeds full of people trying to decide how they should respond to the president and his wife testing positive […]
Most weeks, Friday Funnies are things that made me chuckle, perhaps snicker, occasionally LOL, but this Rhymes With Orange channels some really good existential dread.Which made me really laugh, but only because I’ve embraced my inner slacker and I don’t have those dreams anymore.I don’t know if it’s a sign of achieving inner peace or just […]
Loretta Lockhorn speaks wisdom, and, certainly, on a Monday morning, we can step back from current events for a bit.As long as we check back once in a while to see what’s going on.Every 10 minutes should be enough. When I used to visit high schools to talk about political cartoons, I’d show Nast’s obituary cartoon […]
I missed most of yesterday’s extravaganza while earning a living, but, based on what I heard on NPR while running errands and on CNN while fixing dinner, Bill Bramhall seems to pretty well sum it up. And if I needed more commentary, Ann Telnaes has once more live-sketched the proceedings. You can see the rest of […]
We still haven’t actually seen Eugene the Jeep in this week’s 1936 Thimble Theater, but there’s already a villain seeking to kidnap — jeepnap? — the little fellow.Wikipedia (mostly) disputes the story that Eugene inspired WWII GIs to refer to their small, go-anywhere vehicles as “Jeeps” but doesn’t explain why, or provide examples of how, […]
Real Life Adventures comes as close to politics as we’re going to get today, because it’s Friday Funnies. But it’s a reminder of why we have Friday Funnies.I’m starting a procedure which worked well for me during the 2016 election season, which is to read the funnies — i.e., the strips as opposed to the […]
Bizarro takes un-cluttering to a whole other level. Sort of.This un-cluttering thing has come along at a bad time for me, because I’ve reached a point where I want to live simply — I’m in a three room apartment but envy this place because it’s so much more efficient — and I’m also old enough […]
(Pajama Diaries)(Sheldon)This juxtaposition amused me before I’d come up with a theme for the day, but it starts us off well.In both cases, the wife is mocked for a fascination the husband can’t grasp, and both are affectionate rather than hostile.The first, by Terri Libenson, works on a self-deprecating “Yeah, I know, but humor me,” […]
News update: Friend-of-the-Blog Brian Fies has lost his home in the California wildfires, as did Jeannie Schulz, though the Peanuts museum is reportedly okay. Everyone is safe, but a lot of memories lost. Pearls Before Swine cartoonist Stephan Pastis reported last night that he does not know the fate of his home in Santa Rosa, […]