Here’s a scheduling insight, at least for the print end of the business:The Sunday paper being, in most markets, two or three or more times the size of the daily paper, the sections which can be printed in advance — chiefly Features, Classifieds and Editorial — are often done Friday in the late afternoon and […]
The whole world was watching, but French cartoonist Anne Derenne captured it best. I’ll come back to this after things settle in a little and a few more cartoons have appeared, but, in the meantime, she’s worked past the nonsensical rhetoric and seized upon the kernel of what that speech was about. We can parse the specifics, […]
(Sheldon, 2006) (Cleats, 2005)Start with a juxtaposition of strips that kind of had to run when they did because since then, it’s the grandparents who know who the Beatles were. The parents are starting to get a little shaky on the topic.Of course, the good thing is that they waited so long to do the […]
Sheldon has been kind of sporadic lately as Dave Kellett focuses more on Drive, which I gather has become his bread-and-butter. But he’s just finished a book project there and now has Sheldon creating his own fantasy story.I particularly liked this because it hit just as I was becoming burned out on the middle-school books […]
For a comic strip that appears to be written by a law firm (Weingarten, Weingarten and Clark), Barney & Clyde has really been on a roll lately.And my mind is more like a sieve in the traditional sense of the phrase, so don’t look for any extended rants today, but I’m keeping this definition and […]
(Mike Luckovich)(Clay Bennett)Start with a juxtaposition and something to ponder:These are both good commentaries on the gap between the image of the United States and what it stands for and the proposals of Donald Trump, and not the only two contrasting the Statue of Liberty with the Statutes of Trumpery. We could have an interesting discussion […]
Here’s an oddity that might have appeared in Mad Magazine rather than under its own label: Rex Morgan doesn’t simply confront the Dorian Gray element of a strip that has been around this long, but challenges readers to take it seriously themselves.It’s a fun break in a process of reinvention that apparently includes wrapping up […]
I score about a .667 with xkcd, which is to say, about a third of the time, it’s too geeky for me to get the joke. That’s not a knock on the cartoon: I imagine there are people who don’t always get Tank McNamara because they don’t follow sports closely. I like the idea of […]
Frazz is my favorite educational comic: I didn’t know that “boutonnière” is French for the buttonhole you stick your boutonniere in.And that link taught me all sorts of other things I didn’t know, including that jackets not only used to have real buttonholes there (which I did know) but that there was a loop behind […]
Tough topic today for two reasons:One is that criticizing whiners is very apt to turn in on itself, and, as regular readers know, I try to avoid having too many Andy Rooney moments.The prototypical Andy Rooney whine was when he complained about the air in potato chip bags, the whiney part being that, since he […]
Start with Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal, which happens to tie into this Hemingway spoof I posted on Facebook yesterday. Ironically, “A Moveable Feast” is firmly anchored at my house: It’s next to the john, because I was decluttering and donating and came across it and thought, “Well, I suppose I ought to read it first.”Reading “The […]
Sheldon muses on the dissimilarites between Greek and Roman culture and there certainly are such. Maybe the Etruscans did more to westernize the refugees from Troy who landed on their shores than we generally think.My first conflict with this topic came when Eldest Son was in third grade and remarked upon how strange it was […]
I came to this morning assuming there wouldn’t be many editorial cartoons with anything new to say about the Paris attacks and there weren’t, mostly because there wasn’t much to say in the first place, and I think I pretty much touched on the best commentaries yesterday.And there were some good ones.Yesterday.Funny how often the […]
Judging from the flood of cartoons about the GOP’s whining, it’s just me and Matt Wuerker who recognize that the media hasn’t exactly been faultless in this.As I noted in the immediate aftermath of the CNBC-hosted debate, the rude incompetence of the moderators handed the candidates a weapon. I’ve got little to add to what I […]
Let’s start today with Sheldon, because I’m gonna be a cranky old man for most of the post, so why not begin with an overtly cranky-old-man gag?I resisted GPS for awhile not because I’m a cranky old man but because I didn’t feel any need for it. When I first moved to New Hampshire, my […]