I got a chuckle out of John Auchter’s cartoon, though he’s being a bit of an Upper Peninsula snob, if such a thing could exist. (Be glad I didn’t run this at the end and pair it with The Second Week of Deer Camp.) He’s right that those who live near the Canadian border, as […]
Reading Alex requires you to recognize the strict compliance requirements in the British workplace, but this one works anywhere because the IRS similarly allows you to write off business lunches, including alcoholic beverages, but with rules, including that things not get too “lavish and expensive.” Being able to write off a large, expensive bottle of […]
I cobbled this photo together in the early days of Comic Strip of the Day, but, as the blog turns 14, I am pleased that, while a few people have felt stung by criticism, nobody has ever asked me to stop using their work here. However, before I launched things on Feb 6, 2010, I […]
The forum in Davos has just concluded, but I don’t want to talk politics today. However, here’s a cartoon from Jason Adam Katzenstein, so I’m not entirely cynical about things. Not quite. But I laughed, so I guess I’m close. Yesterday, I saw a Fareed Zakaria Davos segment in which a pair of Ukrainian combat […]
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, […]
Let’s start with our latest and, one hopes, last Cruella update. As I was going through cartoons yesterday at about 4 am here and 9 am in London, I came across this Morten Morland panel with Home Secretary Suella Braverman hanging like the Sword of Damocles over the head of PM Rishi Sunak. I appreciated […]
xkcd is a dependable source for mindbending scientific concepts, but I was way ahead of them on this one. It’s the type of “I knew that” which makes you feel good, because the response is “Wouldn’t it be great if more people knew that?” Back in 2006, I wrote a newspaper series for kids called […]
Arlo and Janis (AMS) make sensible preparations for Tuesday night. My apartment is at the back of the landlords’ house and so I don’t get trick-or-treaters, which is good because my current dog is not used to knocks on the door. But in days of larger dogs and a place with heavier traffic, I had […]
Apparently, the little old lady in Guy Venables’ cartoon is taking Israel’s side in the current scuffle, which wouldn’t be clear if she were considering a boycott of falafel, a dish claimed by both sides. Hummus is of Arabic origin, though, as the son points out, it’s widespread enough that you needn’t boycott it on […]
I guess they call it “Candorville” (KFS) for a reason. I don’t know that I’ve ever seen a cartoonist run a correction and hats off to Darrin Bell for breaking that tradition, though perhaps Clyde reflects a larger part of the population who prefer certainty over accuracy. For my part, I’ve lost faith in a […]
Edison Lee (KFS) asks and answers the intriguing question, Why do they give rebates instead of discounts? The answer being that, if they offered a discount, they’d have to give it to everyone who bought the product. By framing the savings in the form of a rebate, they only have to give it to the […]
No need for an update today: Lynn Hsu lays out my life in all the detail anyone needs, several times repeatedly as ordered. To be honest, it varies greatly from department to department, which I know because I’ve reached the fabled three score and ten years, at which point you spend more time down at […]
Today’s theme being comic strips you may not find funny, we’ll start out with a La Cucaracha (AMS) that explores areas I probably shouldn’t try to comment on. Spanish-speaking people are not a single ethnic group, and are barely a single linguistic group, and yet they are treated as a single group. I don’t think […]
The Duplex (AMS) nearly gets the Accidental Timing Award, and I say “nearly” because, first of all, Putin would be way over-matched and I’m sure would refuse to compete, and, second, as I’m writing this at 5:25 EDT (and editing at 7:42), we can’t find either of them. My theory is that they’ve set off […]
Dan Rosen echoes a gripe I’ve gone on about before: Don’t ask me to pay your staff. And, if you don’t pay your staff adequately, don’t ask me to believe you would distribute tips honestly. Nearly every business in town has “help wanted” signs out. Get your act together. But this cartoon hit at a […]