There’s nothing all that new if you take Guto Dias’ cartoon in the broad, overall sense. Both graphic and literary artists have had to leave creativity aside when entering the commercial arena, and if some leaks in, it generally gets committeefied into pap before anybody in the public sees it. But the advent of AI […]
There are several major news stories going on, but they happened late in the week, so, since only a few American editorial cartoonists post on weekends, we’ll have to wait until Monday or perhaps even Tuesday for commentary on them. In the meantime, here’s a serious funny piece from First Dog on the Moon, and […]
A dose of philosophy from Barney & Clyde (Counterpoint) this morning. I had a flash of a relevant thought that I couldn’t place, but then realized it was from a fencing lesson in Scaramouche, in which Andre Moreau is told to hold his sword like a small bird: Too firmly and he’ll crush it, too […]
Who says comics can’t be educational? Today’s Andertoons (AMS) sent me scrambling for the googles, where, by yompin’ yiminy, I discovered that, indeed, wombats poop cubes. Which sounds like a barroom expression: “I was so scared, I was pooping cubes!” Which it could still be, mind you. But the interesting thing is that the Science […]
They Can Talk provides an excellent starting point for contemplating cartoons that remind me of other things, because, by playing on the social tendencies of cats and dogs, it mirrors those tendencies within ourselves, which is how good comedy works. It’s allied to the half-empty/half-full glass trope, except that that classic division between optimists and […]
Agnes (Creators) and Trout debate the reality of what’s right in front of their faces, which certainly fits in with all sorts of current events that I plan to save for another day, though I’ll add the possibility that Trout is just jerking her chain. Point being that it’s hard to know, these days, who […]
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 […]
Monty (AMS)‘s pal Moondog is still hauling a turkey around and aren’t we all? Thanksgiving leftovers are something people in cartoons complain about but that I suspect people in real life not only don’t mind but actually enjoy. The microwave really shines this time of year, when you can quickly recreate Thanksgiving dinner in miniature, […]
There’s not much new going on in the political realm, so I thought I’d clean up a few things that either could have run this past Friday but didn’t, or that won’t wait until the next. In his weekly wrap-up blog, Wayno noted that he could have put a sash on the traditional Old Year […]
Sheldon (independent) pretty well sums up the hazards of knowing what’s going on in the world, and the last two or three days have been astonishingly toxic and depressing. I woke up this morning and found my newsfeeds full of people trying to decide how they should respond to the president and his wife testing […]
About 50 cartoonists are featured in a new cookbook entitled, “Webcomics: What’s Cooking“. The book has 47 recipes with accompanying original cartoon art. They’ve posted five sample pages online. Below is the sample from Dog Eat Doug creator Brian Anderson.