Start with an easy one: Bizarro recreates the best part of my second bachelorhood.I found myself back on the market at 34, which is certainly young enough for a second try, but it was also old enough to have a little perspective on things, and I didn’t go up half so many blind alleys then […]
One of the best reasons to visit Cartoon Movement is that foreign cartoonists don’t do cartoons about Indians wondering if they should let Pilgrim refugees come to their country.They are also apparently not required to draw cartoons contrasting the rejection of refugees with the story of the Holy Family seeking asylum in Egypt.I have said […]
Rolling Stone Magazine profiles XKCD cartoonist Randall Monroe and his new book, “What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions” Since 2012, Munroe has also been answering weekly reader questions about science, ranging from “What would it take to stop an out-of-control freight train using only b.b. guns?” to “What would happen if you tried […]
(Sally Forth) (Heart of the City)An interesting interplay — nearly a “juxtaposition” one might say — between Sally Forth and Heart of the City today. And, no, I don’t want to know what a strip would be like if Ted were the father and Dean were the kid. One of them per strip is probably […]
It’s pretty nerdy out there, on a holiday that I think can only be celebrated in the US of A, with Frazz the best of those marking it in the funny pages.We’ll have to make a much bigger deal of this in two years, assuming we’ve all recovered from the whole Y2K scare enough by […]
(Clay Bennett) (David Horsey)I’ve complained about political cartoonists who didn’t bother to examine the situation in Ukraine before sitting down at their drawing boards (or booting up their drawing boards or whatever one does). I don’t like to belabor a particular current event, but these two pieces certainly deserve mention.Both are by remarkable draftsmen, though […]
Today’s Dilbert doesn’t exactly give me hope, but it at least reassures me that I’m not alone.I can’t always tell when I’m just being an old fart and when the young punks are actually running wild, but we’re nearly two months past the point where Google killed off the iGoogle homepage so they could push […]
So the Benghazi-of-the-Week is that Phil Robertson of Duck Dynasty expressed some neolithic views of sexuality and some jaw-dropping observations about pre-Civil Rights America and A&E exercised their right to not feature him on their channel.Jonathan Rosenberg makes about the only necessary comment on the “scandal” itself. What makes it a “Benghazi” is the tortuous inconsistencies […]
If you haven’t had enough Bezos-buys-the-Post cartoons, Michael Cavna has a wrap-up over at his Washpo blog. It’s not all of them, but it’s enough of a sample that I hope it scratches the itch, because I’m done at least unless something extraordinary happens.Like, for instance, if it turns out the Post was facing a […]
I’m still tied up with young journalist workshops. Here are some cartoons I would have blogged about if I’d had a blog about cartoons back when they ran, with dates if I marked them, without if I didn’t. I just kept’em ’cause I liked ’em. I didn’t know I’d ever actually use them for anything. […]
Every once in awhile, and Lord knows more often than anyone has a right to expect, xkcd comes out with a major project. In the past, it’s been wonderful, gigantic graphics that would drag you, quite willingly, into a long, minute exploration of some fact that matters or at least reveals.This one is smaller and […]
Daryl Cagle coined the term “Yahtzee!” for those times when several editorial cartoonists come up with the same gag simultaneously, the most egregious example being the 30+ “Weeping Statues of Liberty” that popped up on editorial pages September 12, 2001.Those, of course, came from a lack of wit, but there are more intriguing examples, and […]
xkcd is right, of course.And it won’t make a damn bit of difference.Back at the dawn of time, O Best Beloved, there was a man whose name I have forgotten but who was an acknowledged expert on such things, who insisted that there was actually no such thing as a computer virus, and that it […]
Brewster Rockit has a pretty good success rate in translating geeky stuff into mainstream humor.It’s an interesting niche, an approach not to be confused with that of strips like xkcd, SMBC or Penny Arcade, which produce geek humor for use within the geek community, on a level that would go over the heads of most […]
There are all sorts of people out there doing comic riffs on Christmas standards. Some are pretty funny, some are pretty, well … familiar. To impress me, though, you’ve got to be demented, and that’s where our girl Agnes steps in, with a Christmas story that is destined to be a classic. Or maybe not. But […]