CSotD: Vain regret and vain vanity
I’m not big on year-end wrap-ups, which — as noted before — I learned to hate in the newsroom, when…
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CSotD: No boxes, no returns
Lola (AMS) starts off a post-Christmas posting with a decidedly non-Christmas gag, since Frosty the Snowman is no more a…
CSotD: Have Yourself A Myrrhy Little Christmas
(Bizarro — KFS) (Loose Parts — AMS) (Rubes — Creators) I’m not sure how all three of these cartoonists…
CSotD: Peace On Earth to Someone or Other
Martyn Turner protests the lack of peace at this Yuletide, and he’s right that universal peace has not descended upon…
CSotD: Cold comfort
The Barn (Creators) gets today’s Excellent Timing Award for a piece done, no doubt, weeks in advance but that happened…
CSotD: This is no time for facts
David Rowe once more takes advantage of the 16-hour time difference between Washington and Sydney to comment on Vlodimir Zelenskyy’s…
CSotD: Animal Aesthetics
Non Sequitor (AMS) offers a non-controversial chuckle to start a day of myth-busting, because, yes, it would be nice if…
CSotD: Last Minute Gifts
(Clay Bennett — CTFP) (Pickles — AMS) The problem with last-minute gifts is that, no matter how practical they…
CSotD: Getting Our Stories Straight
Watching Twitter twitch has become a favorite sport, and for some a major compulsion, and Bill Bramhall notes Elon Musk’s…
CSotD: It’s beginning to look a lot … well, you know …
Sherman’s Lagoon (AMS) on the demise of the Christmas Newsletter. Yesterday, I talked about the fables that passed as history…
CStoD: Yule Love These Cartoons!
Clay Bennett (CTFP) manages, alas, to capture the spirit of Christmas, 2022, though I’d like it just as much without…
CSotD: I won’t ask, I won’t ask, I won’t ask …
What the hell were you thinking? Oh, wait. I wasn’t going to ask that. It’s never helpful and it assumes…
CSotD: Peace to Men of Good Will, if you can find them
(Pearls Before Swine) (Pat Bagley) Pastis and Bagley make an understandable, but fatal error: They assume Elon Musk accidentally…
CSotD: This time it’s personal again
I’ve long thought that “This Time It’s Personal” should have been a category in Jumping the Shark, a point at…
CSotD: Mixed, and mixed-up, messages
Wiley Miller is notably unimpressed with social media, so today’s Non Sequitur (AMS) is no surprise, though for someone who…