Very strange Speed Bump (Creators) this past Sunday. The dog in the space suit seemed the focal point, and it was only after I read the caption and agreed with it that I noticed both men were looking up and got the intended point. I hate people who go all technical on a cartoon, but […]
Dave Ostow comes up with the most frightening first-person game ever. As I’ve said before, I reached a level of enlightenment when I realized that, as middle management, I could adopt the practice of other bosses: Show up, have a drink, greet the people in my department and get the hell out before anybody starts […]
Arlo and Janis (AMS) make sensible preparations for Tuesday night. My apartment is at the back of the landlords’ house and so I don’t get trick-or-treaters, which is good because my current dog is not used to knocks on the door. But in days of larger dogs and a place with heavier traffic, I had […]
(Some thoughts about newspapers, while I take Mother’s Day off to go visit the Aged P.) Here’s the protagonist of an 1867 novel, “Ned Nevins, the News Boy, or, Street Life in Boston,” in which the plucky lad worked to rise above his grim surroundings, as plucky lads would in popular literature for the […]
There are many things that Dear Leader can’t seem to understand, and Jimmy Margulies captures two of them here: One is that Trump genuinely has no sense of empathy. It’s not that he ignores or downplays the suffering of others. He genuinely does not get it. So he can cheerfully toss paper towels to people […]
Tom Toles offers one of the more depressing cartoons of this brand new year and decade. What’s happening in Australia is so far off the norm that we should all be horrified and focused: People are heading for the ocean, prepared to simply leap into the water to escape the bushfires destroying their towns. […]
I’ll start by not directing you to a particularly silly article by an academic type who explains why we’re all wrong to think political cartoons still matter, in the middle of which she mentioned political cartoons in the New Yorker, which made me guffaw and post a tweet about how ridiculous it was that she […]
Happy New Year, 1915, from this little feller. Since New Year’s cartoons are interchangeable, I thought instead I’d dip into my files of favorites from before I launched this venture nine years ago. So let’s start with my first posting in rec.arts.comics.strips, nearly 20 years ago, which didn’t keep my numbskull boss from selling […]
Last June I reported that Joe Martin, creator of Mr. Boffo, Willy ‘n Ethel and Cats with Hands had embedded a graphical tag into his comic strip that when viewed through a smart phone displayed an animated version of the cartoon. Joe is taking the concept one step closer and using the same technology to […]