I like Zits (KFS) more when they focus on Jeremy and his friends rather than Jeremy and his parents. Jeremy is a slacker, but he seems to represent all kids in the parental strips while he’s more of a Maynard G. Krebs comic figure alongside his more together pals. This week features a teens-and-jobs story […]
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 […]
David Ostow is right, and so was my professor, all those years ago. We were reading Hamlet and he led off the day’s discussion by asking what purpose the gravediggers’ scene served. Being sophomores, we knew everything, so we chattered away about rising and falling action and the need for comic relief in a tense […]
We’re not doing political cartoons today, but let’s start with something blatantly political: This past Sunday’s Non Sequitur (AMS). Danae is not alone in her attitude, which is a weakness of the system. When I was going through some newspapers from 1898, I came across an opinion piece by Elizabeth Cady Stanton in which she […]
Pickles (AMS) offers a lovely example of tightrope walking, with a gag that its audience will get, even if they aren’t all that computer literate, but with a wink as well to any cyberly-literate types. “According to my research” is a key phrase for identifying crap thrown together by Artificial Intelligence, the confirming step being […]
Bizarro (KFS) strikes a nostalgic note, intentionally or not. I don’t think of Easter eggs as empty shells, but then I don’t think of them as this elaborately decorated, except in Eastern Europe where I doubt pysanky are mixed in with the candy. But it did remind me of being a tiny tot some 70 […]
Remember that graffito that read “We are the people our parents warned us about?” Well, as Non Sequitur (AMS) points out, we are now the people we warned ourselves about. I miss the old days, but when I really think back, I realize that most of the fun things I did then fall under the […]
We’ll start with today’s Non Sequitur (AMS), a relatively gentle example of the sorts of ideas that emerge from the sophomore dorm at two in the morning. But first, a definition of terms: As you may know, “sophomore” is a portmanteau of the Greek words for “wise” and “foolish.” Except that it isn’t. Here’s the […]
When I was in college, Notre Dame had a game against Tulane. I was in the reception area of a dorm at St. Mary’s when a group of people got back from the game, including a girl who had been to Pat O’Brien’s, and brought one of the bar’s special Hurricane glasses all the way […]
My first reaction to this Non Sequitur (AMS) was that it’s impossible. We all know that the way you learn to check before sending is by sending before checking, a lesson gained through experience. It was a lot more fun back in the days of listservs, which, O Best Beloved, set up a little closed […]
Mort Gerberg offers this cheerful, well-timed reminder. I’ve got to admit that we’ve done all right so far. We’re far enough north not to be as shocked and unprepared as those who have had a worse winter than usual and far enough inland to miss the nor’easters that have plastered the New England coast. Fact […]
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 […]
Can’t argue with Danae in today’s Non Sequitur (AMS), though mainly because I don’t want her coming after me on social media. However, while she is an average person for condemning those who disagree with her as “stupid,” even a blind pig finds some acorns, and timing is wonderfully on her side right now. As […]
Adam@Home (AMS) is in an optimistic mood as 2024 has launched, though not quite as much in a hurry as his wife, who I suspect is only trying to encourage him, given that they’ve been married long enough to have a couple of kids on the brink of middle school. After all, encouraging him has […]
Several comic strips have been anticipating Christmas with gags about kids trying to clean up their acts for Santa and people decorating their trees, but now we’re getting right down to the real nitty gritty, and Monty (AMS) brings up the topic of Christmas cards as we enter the home stretch. I used to get […]