It’s Shark Week, and, in one of comicdom’s great annual unilateral crossovers, Sherman has a starring role.Sherman’s Lagoon is one of my favorite sources for the Bob Newhart-style humor I enjoy, but Jim Toomey (whom I interviewed some years ago) is also a genuine aficianado of ocean life and manages to use his strip from […]
“Sherman’s Lagoon” has been riffing on “Dolphin Tale” this week, a feel-good movie about a dolphin who caught her tail in a trap, had it amputated and was fitted with a prosthetic tail. It’s based on a true story, which, since “based on a true story” generally means “We only made up 85 percent of […]
It was pointed out to me that I’ve featured a lot of political cartoons lately. Well, the blog is about what comics and cartoons have struck me, and I guess I’ve been struck a lot by the political situation lately: The economy, of course, and also the nascent presidential campaign.And in particular the whole thing […]