The New Yorker’s Cartoon Slide Show Tribute To Edward Frascino In remembrance of Edward Frascino The New Yorker has posted a gallery of Frascino cartoons. The Comic Strip That Originated as an Old-Time Radio Comedy Okay so it isn’t the book, but Commonplace Fun Facts takes a very thorough look at the history of the […]
A commenter responded to my recent complaint about Facebook postings of vacation photos by saying “On Facebook, everybody who is going on a vacation gets snoozed by me for 30 days.”This is such an excellent idea that I’ve begun doing it myself, and this Flying McCoys happens to have appeared just in time to serve […]
It’s true and it could trigger a whole rant, but instead let’s put aside the bad vibes for a day and have a few laughs.You can decide for yourself whether this is bad vibes or a laugh, but IMHO it’s only funny when everything else in the relationship is working. Which is true of all […]
My friend got some bad news at the doctor’s this week. A new endocrinologist said he was very impressed with how she handled her various health issues and assured her that she had several more decades ahead of her. That’s the sort of prognosis that would have been welcome in our 50s but isn’t particularly […]
Tank raises the popular question of why football coaches are better paid at Div I schools than professors, and then half answers it. Filling the stadium is a good source of revenue, but teams only play a half-dozen home games, so that the Colorado Buffalos, who apparently have the most expensive tickets at $517 but […]
Arctic Circle makes a point that has long bedeviled me, because I don’t live on the seaside. I also don’t toss away a lot of plastic, though I realize much that goes into recycling bins winds up not being recycled. Meanwhile, landfills have had liners for quite a while and, however much plastic may leak […]
Just got an update on my computer, but I haven’t yet figured out what it changed. I don’t recall the last time an update made a drastic change; they usually save those for new versions of the basic program, like when Windows 11 added a thingie so that people with Photoshop disks couldn’t install it […]
How funny is death? Well, the closer it comes the less I fret over it. I’m pretty healthy, but I’m in the home stretch and while I expect another decade, nothing was ever guaranteed, except that Death would show up like Alan Funt — when you least expect it, you’re elected.Unless you’re this guy, who […]
Petrenko leads off today because I’ve seen so many falling-graph cartoons that they make my eyes glaze over, but he freshens the conceit by making it into a commentary on Trump’s apparent profiteering.Obviously, we’ll have to wait for an investigation to prove that Trump has engaged in insider trading, and, just as obviously, that may […]
I’m always surprised when I stumble across one of those Captchas that wants you to click on picture boxes. It’s like getting into a car and realizing it has a choke, except that you never get into a car with a choke unless you’re at an antique car show. Which is to say, it’s like […]
Hard on the heels of our discussion of the topic, xkcd weighs in on the matter of college commas.To be finicky, there probably is a University of Chicago comma, but it may manifest itself in its absence. They have plenty of rules about commas, but since I don’t care enough to become a member and […]
This Reality Check (AMS) raises an interesting question: Do you have to be a guitar player to get the joke?My feeling is that you only need a very basic understanding of music to get a chuckle, because the G-Clef tells you it’s about music and you should know there are majors and minors that have […]
Scott Hilburn wins the Fortuitous Timing Award, though if he’d run today’s Argyle Sweater (AMS) 24 hours earlier, he might be up for a Pulitzer. Yes, it’s a different form of airline chaos, but given his lead time, I think he did pretty well.Besides, the types of chaos that ensued appear to have been fairly […]
Yes, I know. We’ll get to it after a few more cartoonists have weighed in. For now, we’ll skip the politics and have a few laffs instead. Anyway, she’s not the only one who has suddenly popped up in a most bizarre place. Rip Haywire (AMS) is trying to figure out who he is and […]
I cobbled this photo together in the early days of Comic Strip of the Day, but, as the blog turns 14, I am pleased that, while a few people have felt stung by criticism, nobody has ever asked me to stop using their work here. However, before I launched things on Feb 6, 2010, I […]