Rabbits Against Magic (AMS) establishes today’s theme with a joke that should make you weep rather than laugh. Facts are facts and opinions are opinions, but truth seems to waver somewhere in the middle, and saying “seems” only emphasizes the uncertainty. There are limits: When George Berkeley wrote that reality was only what our minds […]
Dog Eats Doug (Creators) has a sweet story arc just starting on weekdays. Since the death of the original Sophie who inspired the cartoon version (but was much older), I understand Brian Anderson has been fostering adoptable dogs, and, even if he hasn’t, the family in the strip has. “Fostering” means giving a dog a […]
I will confess to feeling much like the fellow in Brewster Rockit, and I say “confess” because I feel kind of guilty over being in a state that ranks 42nd in per capita Covid cases, with most of those seeming to be in the southeast corner, or, as one might call it, “suburban Boston.” And, […]
I’ve recently mentioned my past covering shopping malls, but I hadn’t mentioned “category killers,” a term from that corner of retail business. A category killer is a store that makes it pointless to add other stores in that category. For instance, if you lease to Dick’s Sporting Goods, there’s no point in a smaller sports […]
Bob Gorrell accuses Democrats of a double standard when it comes to truth and accuracy. I can’t agree. I’m not a Biden supporter, but his gaffes tend to be immaterial. And let’s remember that it was the Amazon-owned Libtard Fake News Washington Post that examined his story of the soldier and the medal and exposed […]
Matt Lubchansky comments on the bizarre but irresistible foolishness happening on Twitter, which, if you missed it, is more or less encapsulated in the cartoon, which is only slightly more ridiculous than the reality. To summarize, Bret Stephens is a conservative columnist at the NYTimes, apparently brought in to annoy and provoke readers, or, put […]
Given that it’s Sunday, we’ll start with a Sunday cartoon. Betty is something of an oddity, because Betty and her husband are Salt of the Earth types, which, in both Comics Land and TV Land, usually doesn’t involve terribly thoughtful humor. However, the strip sustains a level of humor that is reflective, despite a strongly […]
Judge Parker threatens to become self-aware, likely because Francesco Marciuliano, who also writes “Sally Forth,” is writing the stories. Sally Forth has made shattering the fourth wall an ongoing feature, and that’s fine there but I’d hate to see it here. However, if Ronnie’s caustic grasp on normalcy becomes the catalyst that brings it down […]
Macanudo, because why not? Also because, if you want to read something cosmic into it, it’s there. And if you don’t, it’s not. I don’t say that lightly. When I wrote about Leniers’ appearance at the combined CXC/AAEC convention this spring, I spoke about his puckish willingness to be silly one day and moderately profound […]
We’ll start easy today, with a bit of trivia sparked by the current Vintage Radio Patrol, from November, 1948. In the strip — which, by the way, I read for its camp value — the criminals have taken over a legitimate used car lot and are re-selling stolen vehicles. It would be another six years […]
This Maddie Dai cartoon from the New Yorker struck me at an opportune time, which is to say, just after CXC, which featured a large collection of young cartoonists hawking their books, many, many of which fall into that third category. I remarked to someone closer to my demographic that it made me once more […]
Let’s ease into the topic with Edison Lee and the perfect political speech. If you envision Orville and Edison in that final panel as a bar graph instead of as a pair of characters, you may have some sense of how such tautological, meaningless focus-group-tested drivel impacts elections. However, while little Edison is not yet […]