Creative spelling, as seen in this Moderately Confused (AMS), is an editor’s nightmare, but one that fortunately has morphed out of control in tune with the technical revolution. I used to run honor role listings in the paper, and, for a while, I’d come across some ridiculous version of a common name and call the […]
Our impending political disaster is grim enough that Andertoons (AMS) manages to mine it not so much for an actual laugh but, more appropriately, for a grim smile and nod. And he’s right: Once we, or our children or their children, emerge from all this, there will be a rush of people explaining how bad […]
I promised Suzi I wouldn’t get into any political rants on her birthday. Though I’m not sure she’d hear any stronger language than if I were Edison Lee (KFS)‘s dad and had just spent an entire story arc building a shed just to find this. But I’m blaming the lawn mower, since doors are more […]
I sometimes feel that the kids in Baby Blues (AMS) have become a little too consistently bratty, but then I read Carolyn Hax’s advice column in the Washington Post and so realize that, indeed, there are bratty kids who grow up to be bratty adults. Hax is a lot more indulgent about it than I […]
Got in later than I’d hoped yesterday, so nothing to report on the AAEC/CXC confab yet. Meanwhile, the globe apparently continued to spin. Jeffrey Koterba offers a two-edged gag, or, at least, a cartoon that has both a superficial and a deeper meaning. Polls seem to have been wrong a lot recently, or maybe […]
(Benjamin Slyngstad) (Pat Bagley) Here are two closely related commentaries on the negative response to diversity and inclusion in fantasy productions, but, while closely related, they differ in some interesting ways. Slyngstad rightfully draws his character as a bigot, but the fellow has half a point: Elves, trolls and orcs are all derived from […]
I don’t know how far ahead Jef Mallett works on Frazz (AMS), but he hit this one squarely: Michigan, where he lives, looks to be hovering around freezing for the next week but in no particular danger of snow before Christmas. Here in New Hampshire, we got just under a foot yesterday and it seems […]
Today’s Non Sequitur (AMS) offers my favorite: A combination of humor and potential for serious thought. It’s only funny if you recognize the blend of fact and folklore that runs not only throughout most religions but most ancient histories as well. Fundamentalists on either side simply don’t get it. One group feels you should […]
xkcd starts us off with a cartoon that is funny but that then sends me off on a tangent. Obviously, what she proposes is not what anyone means by “putting the toothpaste back in the tube,” but I think that, if you squirted toothpaste out on the sink, you could probably get it back in […]
Cathy Wilcox sets the stage today, and, while in Australia this generally means soft-pedaling the treatment of aboriginal people, painting rosy pictures of a less-than-splendid past is a hot trend throughout the world, and certainly here. I clicked on a Facebook ad offering free curricula to help young people learn to identify fake news. It […]
We’ll start with a somewhat serious issue today and then descend into more trivial matters. Ed Hall is hardly the only person, or even the only cartoonist, to delve into the case of Sha’Carri Richardson, favored for the gold at the upcoming Secret Olympics, but suspended for a month after testing positive for THC, having […]
Edison Lee (KFS) doesn’t say everything I’ve been thinking about this, but he says enough. One of the things popping up on my social media feed again lately has been calls for term limits. We’ve got term limits. They’re called “elections.” If they don’t work, the answer is in this comic strip, because Congressmembers spend […]
Reply All (WPWG) speaks for me, though even in a virus-free world, I wouldn’t have to go through all that. It’s one of the chief benefits of retirement. I knew I had settled into my middle-management niche when I grasped the proper way to handle the holiday party: Show up, get one drink, eat some […]
Perhaps it seems this way from the far shores of Australia, but I don’t think many US cartoonists are echoing Alan Moir (Sidney Morning Herald)‘s view. From the beginning, Trump has offered far too much for the opposition and far too little for the loyalists, leaving a very thin slice in which to be thoughtful. […]
Lio may be on the right track. One advantage of a parliamentary system is that elections can be called anytime but then they only last a few weeks. Yes, Brexit went on — has gone on — forever, but that’s an exception. Under a parliamentary system, the Democrats and Republicans would each choose a party […]