It’s not unusual for me to come across a cartoon that I basically like but with which I have a quibble. I generally pass them by because it’s too much effort to add qualifications when there are other cartoons that don’t require it.However, I ran into several such pieces today and it seemed like the […]

So simple an eight-year-old could do it.Actually, I’m not sure how old Edison Lee is, but I suspect that he could do taxes because he hasn’t yet been steeped in April 15 Fear, which is found in the cartooning bible somewhere between all those slippery banana peels and the pies cooling off on open windowsills.Mind […]

Maybe Scott Stantis saw something I missed, but I’m not sure what his lead time is on Prickly City and I’m not gonna go back and look this up anyway. However, and for whatever reason, she made a thankfully short splash on social media recently and, golly, it was like she’d never gone away, with people […]

I’m starting a new feature, “Friday Funnies,” in which I skip the political stuff. Given the crisis we’re in, I’m way too often compelled to focus on editorial cartoons at the expense of funny non-political stuff. Friday Funnies will be freed from the same-day rule I normally apply to strips, so you may see something here […]

Kim Warp bats lead off today because we’re celebrating intelligent humor and her New Yorker panel stands out among a plethora of lesser Facebook gags.When I speak of “intelligent humor,” I don’t mean jokes about advanced physics or great unread classics. I mean jokes that indicate that the cartoonist has been paying attention and is […]

 Juxtaposition of the Day (Non Sequitur) (Existential Comics – Click here for full episode)First thing you’ll note is that, while Non Sequitur is talking about grammar, Existential Comics is talking about logic,which seem like two different things but are allied in this: In both cases, they value structure over substance.The rules of logic have the […]

Jeez. I take 48 hours away from daily coverage and everybody decides to become active and interesting. Let’s catch up a little:The big news is Nancy’s relaunch yesterday. There’s a short, interesting analysis in today’s comments and I’m putting Nancy on my GoComics page to see where it heads, mostly in a “show me” sense, […]

My trip to MOCCA yesterday was cut short because my kennel went out of business without telling anyone, so I ended up having to leave the dog on his own, which meant adding 5 hours drive time each direction to the total time he would have to maintain.It didn’t leave nearly as much time in […]

(The weekend became unexpectedly interesting, such that I find myself four hours from MOCCA instead of an hour away, which calls for a posting I can do the night before in order to bolt in the morning. Nothing anywhere near as amusing as the funnies from April 8, 1943.) Mussolini may not have found it an […]

This Pat Byrnes panel is funny enough in a New Yorker way — his more usual spot — but the real laugh is that, as noted in the margin, he didn’t sell it to the New Yorker but to the Wall Street Journal.Of course, the gag is that, notwithstanding my talk the other day of […]