Today is the last installment of Apartment 3G, and Tom Spurgeon has a hale-and-farewell that is worth your time.I used to see the strip in one of the Chicago papers — the Trib or the Sun, I forget which — but only read it because it was on the page. Like Mary Worth, it was […]
Let’s start with an extremely sensible ruleIf Alex Raymond places a woman in your path, do not question her motives. Or his. Just stop the wagon.Sure, she might try to kill you. But why focus on the negative? Too-Smart-For-The-Room Juxtapositions of the Day(Bizarro)(Lio)(Loose Parts)I want to see the Bizarro done as a performance piece in an […]
I’ve mentioned a couple of times that Christmas sure brings out the hackwork in cartooning.It’s not surprising, really: Compulsory cartooning rarely results in anything very interesting. That is, after all, how we ended up with a kabillion editorial cartoons of a weeping Statue of Liberty on September 12, 2001 and why, on a considerably lesser […]
Our Constitution gives us the right to free speech. It is true that no freedom is absolute and is subject to certain reasonable limits but, at the same time, it is also true that the freedom of expression cannot be curbed at the flimsiest excuse.Yet, over the years, an atmosphere of intolerance has been created […]