CSotD: Recons, retcons and just plain cons
Andertoons (AMS) picks up today’s Fortuitous Timing Award, particularly since he offers all three possible pleas, including the one that…
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Talk Shows
When most comic strip animals talk, they don’t exactly scream “realism.” But the animals that populate “They Can Talk,” the…
CSotD: Dubious Fact-Checks
I’ve learned not to bother fact-checking Frazz (AMS), though it will lead you down some fascinating wormholes. This one touched…
Foolin’ with Space and Time
Sunday Synchronicity Mutts and Mary Worth panels play well off each other. I imagine I am far from the only…
CSotD: A House Divided
Ann Telnaes provided a quick guide to America this past Wednesday, outlining the hypocrisies by which we live: What we…
First and Last: Smilin’ Jack
It wasn’t the first aviation comic strip – Tailspin Tommy (1928), Skyroads (1929, which had Zack Mosley art assist), Scorchy…
CSotD: Personal takes and square deals
Who says comics can’t be educational? Today’s Andertoons (AMS) sent me scrambling for the googles, where, by yompin’ yiminy, I…
Jules Feiffer – Living It Up(state)
“I don’t like the area, I love the area. I find it magical,” he said. Jules Feiffer moved not too…
The Great Replacement II
The Bay Area News Group posted a brief notice that Loose Parts by Dave Blazek was the overwhelming choice to…
CSotD: Coverage and Cover-ups
It doesn’t get much simpler than Ann Telnaes depicts it: Donald J. Trump has been indicted. We don’t, as I’m…
Women Cartoonists in the News
Sasha Wooten, Trina Robbins, Roz Chast, Barbara Brandon-Croft, Alice Harvey and Liza Donnelly. Sasha Wootten is named 2023 Jay Kennedy…
Great Moments in Baseball
Thirty years ago: Two out, bottom of the ninth. The eternal goat (not G.O.A.T.) Charlie Brown steps up to the…
CSotD: Unclench with some intentional silliness
We’ll start the day with a rebus rather than a joke, though a rebus is, really, a form of joke….
When What You Love is Self-Destructing
Kevin Necessary got a letter asking why he is no longer drawing editorial cartoons. He tore up the first draft…
The March of Time (Wayback Wednesday)
Ten years ago erstwhile Flash Gordon cartoonist Jim Keefe begins drawing Sally Forth. Okay so we’re a couple weeks late…