The timing of this morning’s Carpe Diem (KFS) got a laugh, because its commentary on computer security came hard on the heels of an article in Forbes, which said the FBI is warning people about texting from iPhones to Androids or vice-versa. It seems Chinese intelligence has found a way to intercept these messages. Tulsi! […]
Andertoons (AMS) takes a daring step, making a joke based on the reader having a good vocabulary, but which is funnier if the reader has just enough of a good vocabulary to know what the word means and to feel somewhat proud of that. That is, if ubiquitous/ubiquity were more common words, there’d be nothing […]
Starting out with this morning’s Cornered (AMS), though at first I had nothing to say about it except that it cracked me up. However, Fair Use demands I make some sort of critique, so I probed deeper. First of all, it’s a great spin on the real stories of Dad running over Junior’s bike which […]
This Bob Eckstein cartoon came along at a propitious time, because I opened a Threads account and soon thereafter showed an interest in writers. Ever since, my feed has been filled with postings by people who ought to get off line and write something instead of talking about it. I took writing courses in college […]
How better to welcome everyone back from Labor Day than with this Tom Toro panel? I drove 275 miles each way Saturday to visit my mother for her 100th, though her birthday was actually Sunday. As it happened, the 550-mile round-trip wasn’t so bad and I assume most drivers had left on Friday and returned […]
Good timing award to Tommy Siegel for dropping this cartoon just before Taylormania went from fascination to exploitation. The fascination was just kind of silly. As I’ve pointed out before, Taylor Swift has been a very big deal among a very big fanbase for a very long time. The original Swifties are well out of […]
Pearls Before Swine (AMS) gets political this morning, and I’ll admit I can’t tiptoe around the general topic either. It’s not easy to avoid thinking about. My social media this morning consisted of a mix of leftover St. Patrick’s Day stuff — and I don’t intend to get into that again — and loads of […]
I like cartoons that make demands on their audience, and Andertoons did a lovely job here of requiring readers to recognize a very unusual name and a key indicator of her voice. If you don’t get it, it’s completely explained in the comments, with a few people taking umbrage at not having been spoonfed but […]
xkcd is a dependable source for mindbending scientific concepts, but I was way ahead of them on this one. It’s the type of “I knew that” which makes you feel good, because the response is “Wouldn’t it be great if more people knew that?” Back in 2006, I wrote a newspaper series for kids called […]
If I’m going to use a New England-based Halloween pun in the headline, I should start with a New England-based comic, so here’s Wallace the Brave (AMS)‘s landscape of Snug Harbor, RI, to which I would add that social media has been full of wet blanket discussions of what candy is no good, but the […]
I hope the dog is resting comfortably, because one of us ought to be and the time shift from East to West has really caught up with me. I’m putting off convention coverage for another day and it should be a long one, since I’ve got a red eye tonight and won’t post tomorrow until […]
No, no, no politics today, despite Pearls Before Swine (AMS) sneaking a good one in. DD Degg’s news of another chain abandoning its local readers is depressing enough without delving deeper into the mire. UPDATE: Gannett has disputed the report, though it’s not clear how big a difference it makes. Stay tuned: DD Degg is […]
Today is a “Where do I begin?” day, but, with no particular plan in mind, let’s kick off with Bizarro (KFS), because Harold and the Purple Crayon came out when I was five years old and, while I had other books I really enjoyed, like Millions of Cats and Make Way For Ducklings, this was […]
(Scott Stantis) (Bill Bramhall) When I heard Tony Bennett had died, I thought it was too bad, but, then again, he was 96 years old, at which point you’ve got the right to check out. I was confident that political cartoonists would be all over the topic, obituary cartoons being something that editors can understand […]
Though I’m doing funny pages stuff today, I’m featuring Dave Whamond’s editorial cartoon on the basis that it’s funny, which seems to be the only way to comment on the Elongated Muskrat’s adventures anymore, as you might have noticed when his rocket blew up yesterday and a wave of schadenfreudey laughter washed over the world. […]