Existential Comics strikes my mood perfectly. We didn’t read a lot of 20th Century anything back in the 60s when I was in college, so de Beauvoir wasn’t on the docket, but there were other philosophers who offered a bit of comfort in what we then thought were dark days. Yes, little did we know, […]
There comes a time when each man must come to grips with the truth, though, as shown in Mr. Boffo, it may turn out that nobody was fooled in the first place. Framed here in Joe Martin’s “How dumb can you get?” style, it’s funny, but if you overthink it — and I’m a champion […]
This Jeff Stahler (AMS) cartoon greets me appropriately upon my return from Younger Son’s home in Minnesota, where I had Thanksgiving a week early with his family of four, another granddaughter and her husband, and my ex, all of whom live there. I heartily recommend it, because the flights were cheaper, though you might want […]
Pearls Before Swine (AMS) sums up the post-holiday. When I get up each morning at O-Dark-Thirty, I check Facebook and Twitter, not only for cartoons that haven’t yet made the syndicate sites but for news stories people are reacting to. There’s rarely any shortage of outrage, but, my goo’ness, there’s even less in the wake […]
I usually begin my day by checking Google News to make sure I haven’t missed any important changes in the world, because I don’t want to feature a political cartoon that’s been overtaken by developments. For instance, Delta and Coke breaking their silence on Georgia’s repressive election laws made a couple of cartoons obsolete, though […]