Pajama Diaries on a common issue for those of us who work at home: When does the factory whistle blow?There’s always been spill-over, at least among people with a tendency to be workaholics. I remember one publisher I worked for who would walk out to her car every night with a double armload of ledgers and […]
It’s not easy to come up with topical cartoons, and poor Tim Eagan gives us a case study of how quickly things can fall apart.This is brilliant work. It’s an excellent predator/prey metaphor and he did a truly great job of melding Putin’s face with that of the self-satisfied lion.Really, really nice work.And then the son […]
Yesterday was about my desperate search for comics that were only funny and not thought-provoking.Today, we’ll spin that another direction, starting with the new Existential Comics in which Socrates is forced to undergo a Socratic examination, of which the above panel is an excerpt.And Socrates is wrong: It’s very funny, and I say that as […]
When I saw Harry Bliss’s cartoon this morning, I thought, “How nice! I can just riff on reefer snobs and avoid all the heavy topics!”We’ve got medical marijuana here in the Granite State, though there was a gap between making the shops legal and letting them actually open up and I’m not sure if it’s […]
Tom Tomorrow leads off today with a retrospective look at what Trump might have said during the campaign, if he’d been a little more forthcoming.Two takes on this, the first being what is implied in that final panel: Regardless of what Trump actually said, it should have been the job of political analysts to pull aside […]
We’ll start on the philosophical couch with an Existential Comics that you can enjoy even if you don’t know squat about Leibniz or even Karl Marx, because surely you’ll get the Freud parts. Go read the rest.To tell the truth, I remember Marx and even Engels, but I don’t know anything about Leibniz and I […]
This week, Non Sequitur has had an “alternative facts” story arc going in which Danae tweeted that there would be a snow day despite no evidence to support the idea.It was amusing, but alternative fact gags are a dime-a-dozen and I wasn’t paying all that much attention.Until today’s wrap-up cracked the whip. Well played, Wiley. Not […]
Let’s start with the really easy one: Karnak predicts that this Off the Mark is going to be forwarded to a lot of people today.Remember that old joke in which the dinner guest observes that the dog is staring at him, to which the response is, “You’re eating out of his dish”? Well, my dog has […]
Much has been made lately of a cartoon that Glenn McCoy drew, which used the Norman Rockwell image of little Ruby Bridges being escorted to a newly-integrated Little Rock school by National Guardsmen in order to comment on protesters who tried to block Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos from visiting a public school. The above mashup […]
(F Minus)A few warm-ups before we get all heavy.I signed up for something yesterday that required a credit card, my address and a password, and they were picky enough about the password — eight letters or more, you couldn’t have three consecutive digits — that they kept kicking it back for revision.The good news was […]
(Henrique Monteiro, Portugal)I’ve never worked at an amusement park, but somewhere I picked up the fact that it takes about three days before you get thoroughly sick of hearing people say “Here we go!” as the ride starts.And yet “Here we go!” I don’t have much use for metal rollercoasters that simply jerk you around. They’re […]
We’ll start today with Steve Sack’s portrait of our next president, in part because I like the smug, self-satisfied expression, and in part because things are such a mess that I don’t really have any logical order in mind.And the reversal of Truman’s motto merges nicely with that smile, because the real motto of the […]
Mike Lynch posted this 1939 “Right Around Home” Sunday panel on his Facebook page, and then Tom Heintjes of Hogan’s Alley offered a link to that magazine’s extensive and example-filled article on Dudley Fisher’s feature.And, as Heintjes said, the archive attached to that article is “guaranteed to lay waste to whatever you had planned for […]
Very quiet on the cartooning scene this morning — a lot of people getting in their annual holiday greetings. Few of them are particularly groundbreaking, but I did like this Rhymes with Orange acknowledgment of the Hannukah/Christmas synchronization.I also thought Steve Breen did better than others on the topic of social media in general and Twitter specifically. Someone […]
The Oatmeal speaks for this blog.I’ve been advised from time to time to make CSotD more phone-friendly but haven’t, and I don’t know how well it comes across on phones because the nearest thing I’ve got is an Amazon Fire which is at least medium-sized. And which I generally use as a Kindle anyway.IMHO, artwork that […]