I don’t know why the funny comes in bunches, but it seems to be feast or famine around here and, while yesterday was a holiday, today is a feast day. So we’ll start with Agnes to which I have absolutely nothing to add. One ought not to gild the lily. Looking for Love in All the Wrong […]

 Leading off today with Non Sequitur and a bit of a fantasy.Not the Godzilla part. The cutting yourself off from the world part.I’d like to retreat back to the 19th Century, when you worked hard, yes, and I’d have probably died from my appendicitis 30 years ago, but it’s attractive to think of living back […]

(Pajama Diaries)(Sheldon)This juxtaposition amused me before I’d come up with a theme for the day, but it starts us off well.In both cases, the wife is mocked for a fascination the husband can’t grasp, and both are affectionate rather than hostile.The first, by Terri Libenson, works on a self-deprecating “Yeah, I know, but humor me,” […]

People keep saying that Trump is a feast for political cartoonists, and this past week has certainly offered plenty of fodder.But too much easy living can leave you fat and lazy. The week’s cartoons offered more laughs than insight.On the other hand, some cartoonists have maintained their edge despite all the low-hanging fruit.For instance, regular […]

Sometimes even when you work weeks ahead, you manage to drop the right cartoon at the right time, and Scott Stantis did that with this morning’s Prickly City.When the Washington Post reported Dear Leader’s outrageously racist remarks yesterday, there was a flutter of people getting the vapors on CNN, and a surge of cartoonists on […]

Retail has been playing in the rumor mill this week, with dubious predictions of store closings and Marla wondering if those rumors are true and, if so, might her store be on the hit list.While actually closing the place down is, perhaps, specific to the retail industry, the overall concept of cutbacks and layoffs is […]

Part of the mission here is to explain comics. Steve Sack ran this cartoon last week, when Michele Bachmann announced her interest in running for Minnesota’s soon-to-be-open Senate seat.It’s a joke.Steve was not actually hoping that Bachmann would run. He was simply making a joke because she is such a polarizing, absurd figure that, if she […]

There was a time when, if some movie star or other random celebrity gave a good speech, someone might say “That’s who should be in the White House!”And everyone would agree, but nobody would take it seriously. There was never a sincere effort to make Mark Twain or Will Rogers president, much less Mary Pickford […]

In today’s Between Friends, Kim asks a question that all writers — and creative people in general — face, or, at least, ought to. The key is not what people want to read but what you want to say.It’s not that hard to see what is popular but there is that old Hollywood gag that what […]

Chip Bok makes a valid point about Jeff Sessions’ recent decision to crack down on pot: He’s the Attorney General and he should be enforcing the law. You can’t blame him for the fact that federal law has not kept up with social trends or science or medicine.Though at that point the argument divides.Bok is […]