While Bill Hinds seems to be the permanent cartoonist for Marmaduke now, Kit Mills has stepped in for Rachel Merrill as the Gil Thorp “guest artist” for this week at least. We’ll see how long the guest stays. I can only guess that Rachel needed some time to work on her and Henry Barajas‘ Death […]
So yesterday was National Cartoonists Day chosen to be celebrated on May 5 because … Daily Kos for May 5, 2025: May 5 was chosen because it was the first publication of the comic-strip character called The Yellow Kid. No, and that is not what the Wiki page Daily Kos linked to says. Here is […]
Matt Bors really struck home for me with this one, both for the cartoon itself and within a context of his recent work.Bors has become an ardent champion of Millennials, of which he is at the leading edge, having been born in 1983, two years into the demographic. On my 33rd birthday, as it happens.We […]
Company Man gets top billing today out of sheer luck and good timing. I haven’t tried Halo Top, but I picked up a bag of Beanitos the other day.Beanitos is a bean-based Cheetos knock-off. I was on the road and just wanted something to eat in the car, and I’ll say this: If I’d picked up […]
(Frazz)(Warped)I often kind of pray each morning for some funny stuff that’s more compelling than the political stuff. There are times it’s like pulling for a horse who was way in the back of the pack on the backstretch, but I’m old enough to remember Silky Sullivan, so wotthehell.Perhaps I should have said “wotthe#@*&” because […]
I’m going to start off with the trivial, personal stuff, and, as I’ve said before, I could run all of Terri Libenson’s “College Search” cartoons from Pajama Diaries, because either she and I have some unique mojo or she’s simply nailing this one for everyone. I suspect the latter but would believe the former.I will […]
No let-up in the flood of “two crazy guys” cartoons, so we’ll take a stroll in another direction today:Today’s Reply All — part of an arc on the topic — makes me feel good about something, or maybe it doesn’t. I’m not sure.A woman whom I dated for several years taught me, among other worthwhile […]
Michael de Adder penned this cartoon shortly before the threats became two-sided, but it remains the most spot-on commentary so far, because a major question is at what point Trump loyalists will shudder and pull back.And the answer appears to be that they’re as nuts as he is. Our best hope at the moment is […]
Phew! Just when I was burning out on politics, funny page cartoonists came through with a slew of good, non-political inspiration!Pen DropStart with one I have nothing to comment upon: Today’s Rhymes with Orange.This is just … nah, I’ve got nothin’ but “Wow.”She been hangin’ around with Sergio Aragones or something? John Cullen Murphy is tearin’ me […]
Chan Lowe boils it down.There are a lot of cartoonists currently mocking Kim’s haircut and portraying him as a nutcase, but Lowe is at least hinting at the real issue in all this:Bluster.Here’s the thing: Unless you are knowledgeable about Korean culture, you don’t likely have any sense of how Kim’s take on the world […]
(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 […]
It’s the most earwormy time of the year and I’m with Mamet on this one. And avoiding the stuff on radio isn’t enough: If you go into a store, you’re sure to be there when they break off something relatively pleasant and drop some piece of horrible smarmy glurge on you that will persist until […]
Jack Ohman with a cartoon that, if you are over 50, is guaranteed to bring you right down.Jack does these longer-format cartoons for the SacBee, which makes it worth following him on Facebook (well, or subscribing to the Bee, sure), and it seems the Old Days were on his mind, because he posted that one […]
I could almost run that headline over today’s xkcd and be done, but I’ll expand on it a little.As part of a sort of Peter Pan Generation, the idea of being “old” is greeted with a lot of denial, but, while there’s no need to grow old in the sense of withdrawing from life, there’s […]
Steve Benson offers this take on a House bill that would forbid display of the Confederate flag in VA cemeteries. My initial response was that, while I agree in principle, I know of one cemetery that might be an exception: Woodlawn National Cemetery in Elmira, NY, in which are buried the remains of nearly 3,000 Confederate soldiers […]