My situation with Arlo and Janis (AMS) isn’t so much that I needed to choose some particular strips from the current arc but, rather, how I needed to pick the right moment to sound the alert to what’s looking like a major shift. It looks, for sure, like it’s time now. I was pleased to […]
On the 20th Anniversary of the attacks of 9/11, Steve Breen (Creators) demonstrates that less is more. I’m surprised more cartoonists didn’t feel compelled to mark the day, but perhaps they realized how little they had to add to the conversation. It was hardly a banner day for the art form then, and the proportion […]
While we await further development on things that aren’t funny, here’s a look at something that really is. Or will be when it releases in October, but you’ll have forgotten by then, so pre-order it now, from the publisher or at your local bookstore. Joe Dator is a frequent New Yorker contributor, but even […]
Here we are, more or less. That is, I think Marc Murphy takes a bit of a verbal shortcut in describing the Chauvin jury as “sequestered,” since they’re locked in now, but they weren’t during the trial, and it came up in the discussions after they were sent off to consider their verdicts. ICYMI, the […]
Mike Peters might want to resurrect this 1973 cartoon, now that we have found peace in Afghanistan. That link includes the text of the agreement between the US and “the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan which is not recognized by the United States as a state and is known as the Taliban.” Which terminology I guess […]