This would normally raise questions about how benefits are adjudicated in New Zealand, which I’d probably dismiss as Not Of General Interest. Instead, however, it raises the question of how much of an aging nerd do you have to be to recognize Daleks?We used to occasionally catch Doctor Who on CJOH-Ottawa, but didn’t watch it […]
We missed all the speeches the other night — okay, we didn’t miss them, but we didn’t get to hear them — but here’s the speech you should have heard at graduation but didn’t.I realized halfway through senior year that the campus placement bureau never had anyone there interviewing for Philosopher Kings, and started thinking […]
I’m disappointed in last night’s half-dinner, though I hope it lasted enough for everyone to get their selfies, as Telnaes suggested ahead of time. But I wanted to see how it came out, and I guess while we can’t have nice things, we also can’t have not-so-nice things, either. It’s too early to get into […]
If Carillo had dropped this tomorrow instead of last Sunday, you might think he was commenting on the Hegseth/Ezekiel/Pulp Fiction matter, rather than accidentally predicting a week in which everyone was wrong and the smart move was to stay out of it.In any case, Hegseth wasn’t quoting either Zeke or Jules, but since making the […]
This is as political as I’m going to get today, and I often have to decide whether Venables belongs in humor or politics. Here’s some of both. Maybe I’ll do a whole page of Pam Bondi cartoons later, but I’m not in the mood this morning.If nothing else, I remember endless Good Friday services as […]
The good news is that he hasn’t tried to declare the war all-but-over the way W did, or even the way Bramhall suggests he might. But it’s scant comfort, because at least when W did it, he was trying to fool us, and he did fool quite a few of us, though it didn’t last […]
With Alexis E. Fajardo, Randy Glasbergen, Amy Kurzweil, Mikke Stratton, Brian Fies, and Tom Toro. Kid Beowulf moves from GoComics to Patreon Kid Beowulf has finished running Book Four on GoComics and creator Alexis E. Fajardo has decided Book Five will be featured on his Patreon site rather than GoComics. Rachel DeSchepper interviews the cartoonist […]
I suppose we should have seen it coming a half century ago, when people started buying “Archie Bunker for President” merchandise. As I’ve said here often, I watched “All in the Family” for several weeks before deciding that sitting through 20 minutes of racist, sexist jokes wasn’t worth the three-minute “Aw, Archie! You’re so wrong!” […]
Where to begin? Easy answer, thanks to Toro, who states today’s premise clearly. The next question is what to include, and in what order?We probably need one of those disclaimers, that this is entirely fictional and any resemblance etc, because none of this is Dear Leader’s fault.As he has explained, he has staff which stays […]
Presidents’ Day invariably involves snow in this part of the country, and, yes, finding a stick is finding a treasure. I have varying memories of the day:The Great Ice Storm of 1998 occurred just after New Years, but an after-effect of that disaster was that because schools in Northern New York were closed for a […]
Mike Mike Mike knows what day it is. And now so do you!I agree with Parisi: The distance and anonymity of the Internet lets people say things they’d never say face-to-face. You have to be a close relative or somewhat pitiable to get away with such behavior in person.The solution might be to do away […]
I was prepared to jump right into this very non-comical story, and the AAEC has released a statement on it, but I didn’t find enough cartoons this morning on the topic, so it’ll have to wait. But Slyngstad dropped two commentaries, this light-hearted iconic one and a more serious one that you’ll see when more […]
When I was the at-home parent, I did most of my writing at night, and I had a clock on my desk set for 12:30, in part because I needed the reminder to get to bed, but also, as Kim notes, as a matter of quality control. Anything I wrote much after 12:30 was going […]
Visits with Dee Parson, Hilary Fitzgerald Campbell, Tom Toro, John Rose, Charles Schulz, Mark Tatulli, Mort Gerberg, Garrick Tremain, and Jean Clude Block.Adventure Into The Unknown Title PanelOn his Facebook page Dee Parson admonishes his local newspaper for not publishing the entire Rosebuds Sunday comic strip: It’s unfortunate one of the local newspapers that carries […]
With Calvin and Hobbes, Lum and Abner, Dick Tracy, Luann, Patrick McDonnell (Mutts) and Tom Toro, and Dee Parson (Rosebuds).a boy and his tiger still matter Bradley Worrell for Colorado Arts and Sciences Magazine writes of the eduring love for Calvin and Hobbes: When teaching his popular course on comic books and graphic novels, William Kuskin’s classroom […]