Macanudo often gets philosophical, and here, Henrietta echoes Heraclitus, who famously said “No man ever steps in the same river twice.” Forests really do change, and quite quickly, despite how long specific trees themselves can last. Some of those old trees die, new trees spring up and the ground cover is in constant flux. The […]
Existential Comics strikes my mood perfectly. We didn’t read a lot of 20th Century anything back in the 60s when I was in college, so de Beauvoir wasn’t on the docket, but there were other philosophers who offered a bit of comfort in what we then thought were dark days. Yes, little did we know, […]
That headline: “Potpourri” used to be a category in Jeopardy which I think was a chance to use questions that hadn’t been chosen in previous games. I haven’t seen it in a long time (hence “Art”) but, then, it’s been awhile since I’ve watched Jeopardy, which brings us to Non Sequitur (AMS) and some suppressed […]
(Non Sequitur — AMS) (Prickly City — AMS) The most unpleasant part of our current situation is that a pair of cartoonists, working from different sides of the political spectrum, could drop such spot-on strips today, despite each working with a substantial lead time. We’re that divided politically, and, more than that, we’ve also divided […]
I don’t necessarily like “Ain’t it the truth?” comics, because they tend to harp on worn-out topics that haven’t been the truth for a long time, or at least, have stopped being innovative and funny. The archetypal “Ain’t it the truth?” jokes start with “And what about airline food?” which might still be funny if […]
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 […]