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 […]
Yesterday was National Dog Day or some such, but I posted too early to realize it, so I’ll compensate with some canine humor today, starting with a bit of truth from The Other Coast (Creators). Indestructible dog toys are largely an issue of trial and error. I’ve seen dogs eviscerate a toy, yank out the […]
No need for an update today: Lynn Hsu lays out my life in all the detail anyone needs, several times repeatedly as ordered. To be honest, it varies greatly from department to department, which I know because I’ve reached the fabled three score and ten years, at which point you spend more time down at […]
Dog Eat Doug goes back to basics — the friendship between Doug and Sophie — for this one, which cracks me up on the old principle of “It’s Funny Because It’s True.” I don’t deal with this phenomenon, since my babies are now in their 40s and I’ve had ridgebacks — who don’t care about […]
Amid the flood of Back-to-School cartoons that didn’t make me laugh, Baby Blues evokes a memory of parenting that did. Granted, it wasn’t over math, since my boys were both better at math than I was and the teaching of math is far superior than it was in my day. Those factors are probably related, […]
Ann Telnaes scores with her weekly strip, Mo, which began in May at GoComics, updating each Monday. Aside from the speed at which she works — this is the first “Truth isn’t truth” piece I’ve seen — she’s also hitting stride with the strip. Every new strip needs to find its legs, and the combination […]