To paraphrase Liniers, “The Comics keep on truckin’.” Yes, Liniers gives a hat tip to R. Crumb in the bottom left corner. No hat tip, and no reason for one, in today’s Zippy. But that opening line instantly instantly brought to mind Donovan’s Season of the Witch opening words: “When I look out my window…” […]
Rex Morgan, M.D. writer/artist Terry Beatty reports that he is home from the surgeions cracking his chest open: Anyhow, I am pleased to report I am out of the hospital, back home, and settling in to a post surgery recovery situation. I hit the markers for hospital discharge sooner than expected, and while not everything […]
Let’s pretend that there are still cities with two newspapers in the U.S. and this is the other’s funny pages.Tiny TypeThat other paper’s comics section featured a Nick Newman cartoon about our aging eyesight…Which brought to mind today’s Flo and Friends. There are a couple of legitimate fears there but the tiny fonts is more […]
Featuring Shoe, Broom-Hilda, Bizarro The New Yorker, Creature Features, The Phantom, Arlo and Janis, Olive and Popeye and Thimble Theater.I began my comic strip reading with the Comics Kingdom feed today and Shoe was one of the first ones to make an impression. The psychiatrist was good, but the sofa and the Perfessor lounging across […]
Blondie and Dagwood and … Blame Blondie by Dean Young and John Marshall (actually Elmo) for this post’s title. So is John Zakour and Scott Roberts’ Working Daze situated in the city where Dagwood works? Lou from Dagwood’s favorite diner showed up in the Working Daze panel today.One more Blondie as part of today’s synchronicity […]
With the stock market, and more importantly GoComics, crashing we could use some laughs. Magic Bus Gracie gets on the bus that takes her to school. Too much the Magic BusHector D. Cantú and Carlos Castellanos offer an alternative reality in this past week’s Baldo.Reality Checking Reality CheckReality Check misses it by thaaat much. In […]
Unfortunate TruthsAn unfortunate truth from WuMo: Background on lorem ipsum from Jack Shepard. Not to be confused with Charles Brubaker’s Lauren Ipsum. On a related journalistic note from Susie MacNelly and Ben Lansing and Shoe: The above comes with my repeated plea for GoComics to replace the Gary Brookins credit above the comic strip with […]
The opening panel of Prince Valiant took my mind to the long-gone time of black light posters. That panel would have made a great one. And maybe that is what got me thinking about the colors at Comics Kingdom, they seemed more vibrant today. Even the pastels appear to be more pastel-ly. Beetle Bailey came […]
I really wanted to decompress from political stress with some funny stuff today, but just when I thought I was out, Mike Thompson pulls me back with today’s Grand Avenue (AMS).I guess there may be some comfort in knowing that there’s nothing new in all this, and that faint-hearted school administrators have been shutting down […]
Happy New Year, 1915, from this little feller. Since New Year’s cartoons are interchangeable, I thought instead I’d dip into my files of favorites from before I launched this venture nine years ago. So let’s start with my first posting in rec.arts.comics.strips, nearly 20 years ago, which didn’t keep my numbskull boss from selling off the […]
I didn’t use this Matt Wuerker cartoon the other day, but not because I thought it was unfair.Wuerker has been through a ghastly, unfair gauntlet of on-line and media pile-on bullying, an explosive wave of toxic stupidity that should appall decent folks, if there are any left.I didn’t do all the digging required to find […]
Bob Gorrell poses a question, and, while I don’t think he’s headed my direction entirely, it’s an opportunity to make a point about gooses and ganders and the appropriate sauces for each.There has been a lot of criticism of Trump’s visit to Texas, some merited, some meretricious. He did well to go, and he did well […]
It’s April 15, which means little on weekends and less on Patriots Day, but taxes and Easter are sharing the comics pages today and you still can’t do better on the subject of taxes than this Shoe from 1979.An opinion that has absolutely nothing to do with the fact that I’m a writer of opinions. And […]
I’m going to have to keep the comments brief, because my self-imposed 1,000 word limit won’t get me through everything that cracked me up or made me think this morning. Fill in the conceptual gaps in my prose as needed; not much of it will be. Imago iocosus ipsa loquiturI decided to lead off with the […]
Sigh. And here I thought we were going to have a rant-free, look-what-made-me-laff day. And then Hilary Price went and drew this RWO.I’m a fan of dog rescue. But, boy oh boy, it sure is well past the point where cave canem and caveat emptor cross over.I have had Rhodesian ridgebacks for the past 30 […]