I’ve had to put on a sweatshirt lately in the wee hours when I write this stuff, though it’s warm when I hit the dog park a few hours later. We’re even seeing a few leaves begin to turn.Meanwhile, our national and international situations are wheeling way out of whack, and the fellow in Weyant’s […]
Nancy has taken a strange turn lately. Not in a historically strange Nancy comic strip way, but in a strange for cartoonist Olivia Jaimes way. Since Olivia started riffing on cartoonists and comics a couple weeks ago (the change struck even earlier in July) it seems she has taken to emulating the prime Ernie Bushmiller […]
From the deepest darkest parts of the comics page comes Wallace the Brave, The Argyle Sweater, Rip Haywire, Over the Hedge, Prickly City, Ripley’s Believe It or Not, Rubes, Thatababy, Tarzan, Zorro, Prince Valiant, and Tom the Dancing Bug.From Giggles to GruesomeGot a seven-year-old in my life who complains that her Dad takes naps in […]
As I’m writing this, the House is in an all-night session, not so much debating Trump’s major bill as seeing which side can hold on longest. By time you read it, we may know the answer.But what we already know is that there is a cult of personality and an atmosphere of fear governing Congress. […]
There are any number of cartoons, memes and videos floating around about what a disappointment Dear Leader’s parade turned out to be, and that’s probably a good thing in terms of keeping up morale among the dissenters, though I doubt much of it will get through the president’s protective bubble.The thing is, LBJ and Nixon […]
Another of those where-do-we-start days, but fortunately Tom the Dancing Bug has not only provided the big picture, but has done so in explain-it-as-if-I-were-in-kindergarten fashion.If we wanted, we could just run in circles offering theories and insights for everything here until the cows come home, or, more appropriately, until the chickens come home to roost, […]
Don Jr. and Eric explain the pay-as-you-go presidency, part of a blind trust which means that they control it and Dad has no idea what they’re doing, which indeed sounds like Weekend at Bernie’s.Not quite dead, nor so blind, but, indeed, shilling his cryptocoins and Bibles and golden sneakers (When I get to hebbin gonna […]
Flash Gordon and Dale Arden re-imagined, Tom the Dancing Bug re-imagines Calvin and Hobbes and Peanuts; Torchy Brown in Dixie to Harlem debuts in 1937; also: Sunnyboy Sam from 1937; comic strips from the Museum of Modern Art; Frazz in reruns explained; a couple changes from GoComics; and some Vintage changes at Comics Kingdom.Who’s WhoRemember […]
Telnaes offers a State of the Union commentary at the Contrarian, one of the stronger arms of the resistance. Not only do they offer solid commentary by qualified writers, but they’ve added political cartoons. Ann Telnaes is well-positioned to address the topic, because aside from her own cartooning, she is active in the global free-press […]
GuestsFlash Gordon isn’t the only comic strip with guest creators this week, Dick Tracy began a new story with a guest writer – though the guest writer remains Eric Costello. I understand that Mike Curtis is in ill health, but sooner than later Eric is going to have to get a promotion from “guest” to […]
Joe Heller explains how we have responded to the collision of a passenger plane with a military helicopter. We’re not waiting for investigators to sort through what happened, because we know who is at fault. Liberals believe it’s because 10 days ago changes were made in the top ranks of the FAA which immediately filtered […]
I could launch a separate blog titled “Cartoon Maps,” given the number of cartoonists who have reimagined the Western Hemisphere according to Trump. Some were pretty good, some were not. But Bob Englehart went for simplicity rather than cleverness, and wins for going to the heart of the matter and pointing out the arrogant jingoism […]
Pat Bagley expresses the situation well: As firefighters struggle to control the wildfires in Southern California, the press also struggles with disinformation about those wildfires.The press wouldn’t be stuck with a mere squirtbottle if the only problem they faced were the normal flow of rumors and misconceptions that plague every major news event. But in […]
Dogs and Halloween aren’t always a good combination, but today’s Bliss (Tribune) brought back a memory of a ridgeback who enjoyed dressing up. Some of my dogs have tolerated it, some haven’t, but he thought it was fun, so one time I put him in a Canadiens jersey, balanced a hockey helmet on his head […]
Pearls Before Swine (AMS) offers a yes-but-no discussion of our situation. There certainly are a lot of people siloed in their own little belief centers, and that’s a problem in a democratic system where people are supposed to make informed decisions.But there is such a thing as truth, and there is such a thing as […]