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 […]
My father brought this magazine back from a business trip. I was on the verge of turning 8, which was a little young for it, though I liked the parts I could figure out. But my brother was 12 and right in the sweet spot. He got himself a subscription and so I was able […]
We’ll lead off today with snippets of things you should go check out, starting with Ann Telnaes’s longer piece on the conference about sexual abuse at the Vatican. Or the conference at the Vatican about sexual abuse. Whichever. It is well-worth the click. Signe Wilkinson takes up a piece of that argument, agreeing with Telnaes […]
When Brian Fies lost his house in the wildfires of 2017, his friends were appropriately horrified. When, shortly thereafter, he produced a short, multi-panel cartoon memoir of the disaster, however, I will confess to a bit of joy, in part because I knew that was how my friend heals, and in part because, we all […]
Last Sunday’s Pajama Diaries made me laugh but also pinged some very odd, slightly painful memories, which is one sign of a good strip. Jill’s conversations with her former selves are an ongoing feature in the strip, but, no, I don’t recall one with Awkward-13-year-old and OMG yes but she needs to stay in the […]