In my defense, unlike Wallace the Brave (AMS), I’m retired and don’t have to know what day it is. The post office is closed from noon Saturday until Monday, which is when the Chinese restaurants and barber shops are closed. That’s about it. Now that I’m retired, I don’t get a haircut very often and, […]
By pure happenstance, Trout stumbles onto a shred of truth in today’s Agnes (Creators). Blue is the color of St. Patrick, based on its heraldic association with Ireland and its adoption by the Order of St. Patrick in 1783, though, as explained there, it’s all “Anglo-Irish” which is a polite term for things that are […]
The Gamestop/Reddit gambit creates one of those “Where do I start?” sorts of days, but certainly Alex (Telegraph.UK) is an excellent place, even though he wasn’t commenting specifically on that. I often — perhaps too often — admit that Alex can be kind of nerdy for those who have not been immersed in the business […]
If Ionesco or Becket were writing “The Comic Strip That Has A Finale Every Day,” this Frazz (AMS) would be the one to endlessly cycle, it being more absurd than dadaesque. Or, at least, it would become absurd if you simply kept cycling it. As it is, it speaks for the prevailing mood, which is […]
Greg Kearney, cartooning for the Atchison (Kansas) Globe, offers a bit of nostalgia and regret for the days when world events happened “out there.” A whole lot has changed, much of it in the past half century but much of that has been a sudden acceleration of a developing trend. One of the things I […]
Alex neatly answers my usual “where to start” question because I should have pointed out this development when it started, which was Monday. Start there and catch up. I don’t know if it’s a complete game change for the strip, which is generally centered on Britain’s business community, but, then again, it hardly matters because […]
Alex shows that the British are more environmentally aware than we are, even if it does show it by having its title character whinging over the fact. I actually saw a Hummer the other day. GM quit making them in 2010, but this one was bright and shiny and all I could think was that […]
I’ll admit to having been sucked in completely by this Alex, because, while everyone in the strip is contemptible on some level, Clive had been painted as the victim in this ongoing divorce thread. For all the comical excesses of the characters, part of what makes this strip work is their lifelike nature, and I […]
(Baby Blues) (Pickles) The question of real vs. artificial Christmas trees seems like one of those issues in which either argument makes sense and it comes down to what you want to believe and what you prefer to do. However, you aren’t hurting the forests by buying a real tree or saving them by purchasing […]
If you came here for refuge from the storm, apologies, but, since I’m locked into CXC coverage starting tomorrow, we need to look at yesterday’s weirdness a little today or it’ll be totally outdated. We’ll get to to the funnies in a minute. Adam Zyglis takes the prize for this cartoon that wraps up a […]