I like Zits (KFS) more when they focus on Jeremy and his friends rather than Jeremy and his parents. Jeremy is a slacker, but he seems to represent all kids in the parental strips while he’s more of a Maynard G. Krebs comic figure alongside his more together pals. This week features a teens-and-jobs story […]
First Dog on the Moon has the delightful ability to make me laugh but also send me scurrying to the Googles, and this is an excellent example. First Dog is the conscience of the world, so militant about climate change as to be annoying but, then again, not wrong. He brings up the important issue […]
Mr. Boffo offers a chance to visit the ungracious past. The idea of pop-up wine tastings out of paper bags reminds me of the Olden Days when the gentlemen of the streets would scrape up enough money to buy something utterly undrinkable, plus a dime for a packet of pre-sweetened Kool-Aid, which they would add […]
Stan’s probably right in this Pros & Cons (KFS). I hope that everyone is watching the world crumble, but I suppose I take the role of the optimist, thinking realistically that people don’t generally change until they hit rock bottom. And hoping they hit bottom is probably a pessimist’s most optimistic take. But Paul […]
(I pirated today’s headline!) Brewster Rockit (Tribune) is totally on target, though I can’t remember who it was that I backdoored the other day to avoid their automatic answering system. But when I mentioned what a pain it was, she laughed and acknowledged it. Everybody knows except the brass who bought it. Might have been […]
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 […]
Wouldn’t it be nice if they carried signs like this fellow in Macanudo? But we don’t discuss politics on Friday. However, discussing both life and philosophy is permitted and Macanudo (KFS) is often the sort of thing you could spin a whole day from if you slowed down enough. Is a humble-bragger more to be […]
Sousa and Machado‘s commentary on the Barr Report of the Mueller Report is a bit light on metaphor, but, first of all, sometimes being direct is the right choice. Too much subtlety can obscure the point. Second is that they understood that point, and I’m gobsmacked by the number of political cartoonists on both sides […]
I thought Real Life Adventures did a nice job of summing up the holidays. Every Christmas season, auto companies run ads where a delighted wife walks out into the snowy driveway to find a brand-new car with a big bow on top. This year, one of the companies doubled down on the concept with the […]