(Jack Ohman — Pulitzer Prize, 2016) (Joel Pett — Pulitzer Prize, 2000) (Kevin Siers — Pulitzer Prize, 2014) This is, alas, a Juxtaposition of the Fired. The McClatchy chain of newspapers, which has been struggling in bankruptcy for more than three years, has decided to cut costs by eliminating three of the nation’s leading editorial […]
Let’s begin this very personal saunter through the funnies with a self-own in the form of this Bizarro. Back in my Struggling Author days, I dwelt in the land of D-level rejection: My novel manuscript would often come back with a personal — rather than a pre-printed — letter, but never the kind that asked […]
We’ll lead off today with a Juxtaposition of the Day (Retail) (Rob Rogers) Transposed like this, the connection between the penultimate Retail strip and Rob Rogers’ piece of Bill Barr is more obvious than I expected it to be. Back in the glory days of PBS, Ebert & Siskel used to criticize what they called […]
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 […]