Jeff Stahler (AMS) taps into something that occurred to me during the game. A lot of what they were advertising was of little interest to me, but I also had a sense of “been there, seen that” as creative ideas seemed replaced by celebrity cameos. Celebrity cameos were once a delightful surprise because they only […]
The Grammys will be tonight and I will continue my annual tradition of not caring. David Sipress is correct that people our age likely haven’t heard of many of the nominees except for Joni Mitchell, though the gag comes with a few actuallys. Actually, unless we’ve been living under a rock, we’ve at least heard […]
Well, that’s over, or so you might think: Now that the Super Bowl has been played, the season is concluded, right? Well, no, and this morning’s Mr. Boffo correctly predicted the outcome: Last night’s game was close and so, of course, there is a play that fans of the losing team will obsess over until […]
My old friend, Mrs Carter, could make a pudding, as well as translate Epictetus. — Samuel Johnson As noted yesterday, liking sports is as optional as liking ballet, but then there are polymaths like Elizabeth Carter whose intellectual curiosity and wide span of interests was testimony to the sexism inherent in the term “Renaissance […]
With today being Super Bowl Sunday and tomorrow Valentine’s Day, cartoonists are under some pressure to cite one or the other, but, before we get into forced timing, here’s a bit of the serendipitous kind: This Arctic Circle (KFS) actually ran yesterday but was surely written and drawn before thugs in big rigs were a […]
Today’s Arlo & Janis (AMS) is a bit of a Super Bowl standard: The sports savvy guy and the woman who picks her team by, in this case, colors, or, other times, by ferocity of mascot. The denouement is that her teams wins. It’s a gag with legs: As Homer wrote, “It’s funny because it’s […]
I realize it’s Super Bowl Eve and we’ll get into that later, but it’s also the 11th anniversary of the start of this blog, which, as you see, began with a favorite strip and a single sentence inviting people to enjoy it. Comic Strip of the Day has evolved quite a bit since then, but […]
Matt Wuerker admittedly picks a bit of low-hanging fruit on this one, going for an obvious commentary on a ridiculous Trump blunder, but it beats hell out of the more obvious, less detailed wisecracks involving a Sharpie and harking back to Dear Leader’s ridiculous re-drawing of a weather map. Both play upon the fact that […]
The Lockhorns sounds a predictable note this morning, but I chuckled. The strip has been quite hip in recent months about technology and similar things, which I wouldn’t have expected from an old-school Bickersons sort of strip, but that makes me surprised Loretta doesn’t realize Leroy can click-click-click until he gets to the NFL Network […]