The symmetry between yesterday and today’s headlines and content is purely unplanned. The best things in life are. Now here we are, with comics like Speed Bump, which really cracked me up but doesn’t inspire any particular commentary.Except to note that you used to be able to buy this gag that looked like a book, only […]
… and if that headline touched off an earworm, you’re one of the old folks. And if you’re one of the young folks, here’s your trigger warning: Don’t click that link, because it contains cultural history you prob’ly won’t like. (I learned it as “Mission Sunday School,” which sanitizes it a bit. No, not much.)Anyway, […]
I’m back and, as it happens, moreso than I had reason to expect. I’ve been sliced and diced and apparently, rather than simply holding back the Beast, they got it completely.Which puts my expiration date into the vague future and so I should look both ways before crossing the road, because stepping in front of a […]
Rhymes with Orange leads off today with a cartoon based, IMHO, on the joke that “Is this a good time?” is sort of like “How are you?” It’s not an actual question so much as a greeting.The difference being that, if someone says, “How are you?” and you actually answer the question, they’re obligated to […]
(Speed Bump)(Bizarro)The Juxtaposition of the Day is, placed in this order, a sort of case study over time.A third element is this article that has just surfaced, “Fifty psychological and psychiatric terms to avoid: a list of inaccurate, misleading, misused, ambiguous, and logically confused words and phrases,” which you can tell is serious because it has […]
I could probably do a Juxtaposition of the Day using Mr. Fitz and Dilbert five or six days a week if I didn’t mind an occasional stretch. It would be a waffer-theen stretch, I promise you. Specifically, old timers will remember when Dilbert had a “mission statement generator” on its site that would crank out vapid, […]
This is going to be a backwards posting, and you’ll understand at the end. But, as long as it’s going to be backwards at all, it might as well be completely backwards:Juxtaposition of the Day (Bizarro) (Speed Bump)Well, obviously it’s not the same castaway. Better rescue Piraro’s guy first. Coverly’s guy says he’s fine for […]
There have been floods of selfie cartoons lately, most likely as a result of a convergence of the faux-outrage over the selfie the Prez was in at the joyous commemoration of Nelson Mandela’s life, plus the annual announcements of what is new-and-hip that come up each January.Selfies are tiresome not so much for the form, […]
(Clay Bennett) (David Horsey)I’ve complained about political cartoonists who didn’t bother to examine the situation in Ukraine before sitting down at their drawing boards (or booting up their drawing boards or whatever one does). I don’t like to belabor a particular current event, but these two pieces certainly deserve mention.Both are by remarkable draftsmen, though […]
I’m starting off with Paolo Lombardi’s obituary cartoon for Mikhael Kalashnihov because it’s exceptional in the true meaning of the word: It’s the exception to the rule that Pearly Gates cartoons are crap.This is actually brilliant, including the fact that he simply shows the closed gates and the sign. No Saint Peter, no God, no […]
Let’s start in Denmark today. Well, in Scotland. But with a Danish story.Here’s one of HJ Ford’s illustrations from Andrew Lang’s 1894 retelling of Hans Christian Andersen’s “Thumbelina,” from “The Yellow Fairy Book”: And now we’ll go to Denmark.Or, the US. But it’s imported: And that’s Wumo, a newly syndicated strip that Michael Cavna writes […]
Back when Ellen Degeneres was a standup, before she became a skinny white Oprah, she had a gag in her act that went, “My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She’s ninety-seven now, and we don’t know where the hell she is.”It’s not just a great joke, but it’s a […]
Speed Bump tackles the issue of the end of the story as it is told and end of the story including the tying up of loose ends.Overthinking cartoons is part of the primary mission here, and the fact is that the urn, not the cremation, is the problem here.(Note: Everything that follows is in excruciatingly […]
Speed Bump offers a heapin’ helpin’ of food for thought.It’s well-timed. Though “back to school” for most colleges was several weeks ago, and cutting the check was quite a bit earlier than that, the economy remains center stage. And this is a nice riff on the quickly-becoming-tiresome gags about recent graduates living at home.The last […]
Speed Bump raises some interesting issues and disturbing images today.We have to start with the admission that this comic has already gone way over the “I should really just relax” line. Which is what makes it funny.But, as long as we’re ignoring that excellent advice, Superman’s biological functions are problematic, because, while he is invulnerable, […]