The Duplex (AMS) nearly gets the Accidental Timing Award, and I say “nearly” because, first of all, Putin would be way over-matched and I’m sure would refuse to compete, and, second, as I’m writing this at 5:25 EDT (and editing at 7:42), we can’t find either of them. My theory is that they’ve set off […]
My distaste for awards is sort of a running gag here, and this Sherman’s Lagoon (AMS) pretty well sums it up. It reminded me of an item in the late Charley Stough’s “B.O.N.G. Bulletin” — a periodic on-line roundup of news, gossip and jokes from the mythical Burned Out Newscreatures Guild — about a for-real […]
Wiley gets to lead off today because this Non Sequitur sparked two — count them, two! — personal memories of no particular significance. The first involves names, because everyone named “Peterson” gets called “Pete”at some point. My son was Pete in the Navy in his day, his son-in-law is Pete in the Navy now because […]
We’ll start today with an “I told you so,” illustrated by Wiley Miller, because I had been telling people to get up here and look at the leaves by Columbus Day Weekend. It was a very good, not quite spectacular year, with a lot of color though a little bit muted. Dr. Johnson said […]
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 […]
From Jaunted: The collection of more than 70 cartoons highlights Captain Manno?s wit and talent for the fluid, loosely drawn cartoon style most professional illustrators wish they could achieve. The cartoons range from riffing on the absurdity of passenger requests to musings on the temporary cohabitation of flight attendants and pilots during their time together […]