So to catch everyone up, GoComics apparently now updates at 3 a.m. Eastern Time, which likely only effects me, Arcamax quit updating a whole slew of political cartoons about a month ago, and Counterpoint now has a new format for its subscribers that includes more comics more often. And I’m still here every day. Andy […]
Monotonous, isn’t it? Except that this Sunday, it’s Baby Blues instead of Barney & Clyde. As I’ve suggested before, it doesn’t seem it would be that hard or expensive to have somebody run through the Sunday comics at launch to make sure they each contain both a color and a black plate, and I’ll bet […]
One political cartoon today, because it’s an example of what I’d like to see more of. Trump, Musk and the loyal oligarchs continue to lie to people about what tariffs are and how they work. There was a ghastly but typical example of blatant lying at the press briefing the other day when Karoline Leavitt […]
Breaking Cat People News Taking a break from breaking cat news is Breaking Cat News getting into breaking people news this week. People news involves those in control of our lives and governments, and Georgia Dunn goes there: Georgia leads off the comments by telling her readers why: For folks not loving a strip touching […]
Rich Powell starts off this panoply of humor with a wordless wonder at Wide Open (Universal), and the best part is that, while the humans are blissfully unaware, the dogs recognize kindred spirits, with perhaps a sense of having been mismatched. Well, if their people have never heard that thing about people resembling their dogs, […]
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 […]
Jeff Danziger (Counterpoint) sounds echoes of the bandwagon/Bellman effect discussed here yesterday. Yossarian was asked, “What if everyone felt that way?” and responded “Then I’d certainly be a damned fool to feel any other way, wouldn’t I?” Understandable answer, but then again, Edmund Burke wrote, “Because half a dozen grasshoppers under a fern make the […]
If “timing is everything in comedy,” this is a darned hilarious F-Minus (AMS), because I dreamt all night of laying out pages and this morning I feel like I might as well have stayed up and done it for real. Your mileage may vary and I hope it does, but while I make some more […]
Good timing award to Tommy Siegel for dropping this cartoon just before Taylormania went from fascination to exploitation. The fascination was just kind of silly. As I’ve pointed out before, Taylor Swift has been a very big deal among a very big fanbase for a very long time. The original Swifties are well out of […]
Kal Kallaugher could run this anytime, but it’s particularly relevant at the moment, as we face the twin factors of emerging technologies that make forgery and fraud easier, and political operatives who are willing to lie in your face. There have always been kooks in the world, but in addition to the gullible who believe […]
Indeed it is, They Can Talk. The bears got up a little early this year and started getting into the bird feeders, which is their equivalent of socializing. We always get warned to take down our bird feeders this time of year, which I gather is because we don’t want to encourage the bears to […]
A door panel blew out on a Boeing jet the other day. Perhaps you heard. Matt Pritchett came up with a funny cartoon about it. Many other people also drew cartoons about it. The most interesting part of the whole thing, as far as I was concerned, was how much of a non-event it turned […]
Red and Rover (AMS) Daddy’s Home — Creators Lola — AMS Yesterday’s comics page didn’t have a Juxtaposition so much as a three-strip pile up. One might suspect that all of the comic strip people live in the same town, but Red and Rover don’t even live in the same year as the others, being […]
Today’s Pearls Before Swine (AMS) is how we know that Stephan Pastis either (A) is older than we thought or (B) went to a conservative Catholic school or (C) is channeling terrorized older Catholics. I only had two years of Catholic school before we moved to the wilds and I started going to public school, […]
My situation with Arlo and Janis (AMS) isn’t so much that I needed to choose some particular strips from the current arc but, rather, how I needed to pick the right moment to sound the alert to what’s looking like a major shift. It looks, for sure, like it’s time now. I was pleased to […]