CSotD: Random thoughts on various topics
No need for an update today: Lynn Hsu lays out my life in all the detail anyone needs, several times…
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Good News Bad News Dude News Rad News
The Nib magazine free! Simon and Schuster books $1.62 billion! New Bloom County comic strips! Peanuts merch! The Addams Family…
CSotD: Gators and snappers and little feathered dinosaurs
Prickly City (AMS) may have it right, I suppose. There were all sorts of reasons for the great thunder lizards…
Wishing Brian Duffy the Bluest Skies
For more than a year editorial cartoonist Brian Duffy has been battling serious medical problems. Brian hasn’t done any regular…
CSotD: Would you believe … ?
Life between the ages of 15 and 20 seems purposely geared to be annoying. In my case, those years coincided…
University Press of Mississippi Book Sale
For ten days, until August 17, 2023, the University Press of Mississippi is putting its books on sale at 40%…
CSotD: Hot takes and suchlike
Brewster Rockit (Tribune) surprised me the other day, because there’s nothing wrong, or particularly odd, about mixing peanut butter and…
741.5 The Expanding Library Comics Shelf
David Harper from 2019: I’ve discovered many comics I love through the Anchorage Public Library’s incredible comic collection, as they…
CSotD: Facts are so 20th Century!
Candorville (KFS) offered this portrait of fact-free criticism Sunday, and not only did the familiarity bring a chuckle, but it…
Messing With Sunday Funnies’ Paginators
Because of my contrary nature I get giddy when I see cartoonists screw with the people laying out The Sunday…
Sage Stossel Winner of 2023 NSNC Award, McConnell & Lander Nab Honorable Mention
The National Society of Newspaper Columnists has announced the winners of their 2023 Columnist Contest for work published in 2022….
CSotD: Make another pot of coffee
For those who are time-shifting the Women’s Cup, I’ll simply offer Zapiro’s celebratory cartoon from this past week without further…
Against the Grain – Right Side Editooning
Based on your social media feeds, you might think that political cartoonists are exclusively wild-eyed, merciless critics of former President…
Short Takes From the Past Week
Bob Staake, Mick Stevens, Paul Karasik, Max Fleischer, Peanuts, and The Nib. ********** Staake has publicly rejected the idea that…
CSotD: The Ladies, God Bless’em
My hip replacement has had the pleasant timing to have occurred during the Women’s World Cup. While I’m still pushing…