The important thing to know about those helicopters is that if you split the bulgy part, the inside is just sticky enough that you can wear the thing on your nose as a Cyrano extension.The Northern Forest is coming to life, with trilliums and jack in the pulpits providing some early color and a whole […]
Starting out with… Proof of Publishment The twice weekly Olive & Popeye comic strip has been around since 2022, but now there is proof that it is being published in at least one newspaper via the King Features Weekly Service (KFWS). The Sidney (Nebraska) Sun-Telegraph comics page for their March 6, 2025 issue shows the […]
Breaking Cat People NewsTaking a break from breaking cat news is Breaking Cat News getting into breaking people news this week. People news involves those in control of our lives and governments, and Georgia Dunn goes there: Georgia leads off the comments by telling her readers why: For folks not loving a strip touching on […]
Not feeling all that political today, but I got a laff out of Tommy Siegel‘s piece because it coincides with a sudden deluge of similarly dismissive editorial cartoons explaining that, despite all evidence to the contrary, those darned college kids are all anti-Semites, including the Jewish demonstrators.I don’t mind it coming from the usual suspects, […]
Adam@Home (AMS) is in an optimistic mood as 2024 has launched, though not quite as much in a hurry as his wife, who I suspect is only trying to encourage him, given that they’ve been married long enough to have a couple of kids on the brink of middle school.After all, encouraging him has worked […]
Paul Noth having summed up the Nov 24 election, we move on to further action, later in the game.That phrase is a bit of nostalgia for fans of the Notre Dame Football Replay that aired on Sundays and depleted attendance at the 10:30 Mass. They had to fit it into the time slot, so drives […]
The Duplex (AMS) nearly gets the Accidental Timing Award, and I say “nearly” because, first of all, Putin would be way over-matched and I’m sure would refuse to compete, and, second, as I’m writing this at 5:25 EDT (and editing at 7:42), we can’t find either of them.My theory is that they’ve set off together […]
Fathers get so little positive play on the comics page that, having been a single dad, I’m gonna lead with today’s Brevity.Cargo shorts notwithstanding, it’s good to see a father in the funnies who isn’t a clueless, annoying loser.My father, who was otherwise very present and attentive, didn’t teach me to shave. I think I […]
It’s tough being a cartoonist today, because the world seem determined to turn any gag, no matter how silly or far-fetched, into reality. Take today’s “The Duplex,” for example.That’s not a gag. That’s a report on the state of the union.In going through today’s comics, there were several political cartoons taking the media to task […]