I cobbled this photo together in the early days of Comic Strip of the Day, but, as the blog turns 14, I am pleased that, while a few people have felt stung by criticism, nobody has ever asked me to stop using their work here. However, before I launched things on Feb 6, 2010, I […]
Between our shifting servers and an apparent post-holiday sag in general, this has become a good day to indulge in some favorite comics from years past. This Rhymes with Orange (KFS) came at a particularly propitious time, because not only did I live just around the corner from such a house, but I recall that […]
This classic xkcd may not quite express my long-term financial plan, but I’m glad I have been saving funny pictures, because, between Jim Jordan cartoons that are suddenly irrelevant, and divisive, nasty commentary on the Middle East — plus the fact that few political cartoons post anything new for Monday anyway — I was in […]
Maria Scrivan — whom I will see in a day or two at CXC — offers a funny/not funny Half Full, the kind where first you laugh and then you sink into a reverie. Oh, honey, nobody reads the terms and conditions. Well, except for Robert Sikoryak, who found a way to make Apple’s […]
Here’s a snippet of a longer piece by Ann Telnaes, contrasting the sacrifices Americans made in WWII with the ones certain Americans refuse to make today. Click that link and see the rest. And here’s a reminder that she cut her teeth in the animation business, and also that she has little patience with […]
The railroads did not stop growing because the need for passenger and freight transportation declined. That grew. The railroads are in trouble today not because that need was filled by others (cars, trucks, airplanes, and even telephones) but because it was not filled by the railroads themselves. They let others take customers away from them […]
Wallace the Brave is consistently filled with such surreal touches that it is generally easier to point out the ways it could have gone wrong than to explain where it all came from in the first place. The timing is exquisite: My feeders have been crowded the past two weeks as birds either gas up […]
Arlo & Janis set the mood as I celebrate nine years of cartoon blogging with a collection of strips that predate CSotD, only a few of which I’ve slipped in over the years. Arlo isn’t so much morbid as realistic with a tendency to brood, and there are any number of strips I might have […]
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 […]