It’s not that I’m in a non-ranting mood. I’m always in the mood for a rant.But there were a lot of cartoons that I really liked today but none that triggered a rant. Or, at least, not a full-length rant. So treasure the brevity. Let’s start with some football. The Flying McCoys today isn’t about football, but I […]
I went into my various stashes of political cartoons this morning knowing that, with the budget crisis having hit an armistice overnight, a lot of the commentary would be out-of-date even if it was filed yesterday. That may have put me into a mindset whereby timing, fortunate or otherwise, was forefront. Take today’s Tank McNamara, […]
No heavy lifting today. Tank McNamara on the topic of college sports and amateurism. I’m not sure where Bill Hinds is taking this, but it’s a worthwhile issue, particularly as we prepare for a round of (yawn) Winter Olympics.The Olympics once had an elitist, often racist, amateurism requirement that needed to go. But the combination […]
Kieran Meehan specializes in the clueless and “Pros & Cons” is one of the strips I most look forward to every morning.Stupid is funny when it’s fictional. But, of course, the humor comes from hitting just the right level of exaggeration, the point where you laugh at the absurdity of the situation depicted because you […]
A pair of story arcs are beginning this week that promise to comment on the flavor of our times. The major one is in Doonesbury, addressing the death of Daniel Patrick Moynihan’s rule, “You’re entitled to your own opinion, but you’re not entitled to your own facts.”We’ve always had spin and interpretation and selective perception, […]
Jeff Millar, the writing half of the “Tank McNamara” team, died Friday of cancer. I never met Jeff, though his partner on the strip, Bill Hinds, has been an on-line friend for several years. More to the point, Tank McNamara has been on my comics radar since the strip debuted in the mid-Seventies.Cartoons on the […]