Soup to Nutz offers a grim but funny — yes, that’s possible — commentary on the search for humane meat.I do believe in humane treatment of animals, even those destined for the table. What life they have, however short, should not be brutal, at least beyond the facts of life, their fact of life being “You […]

Warming up with the whole “saddest words” thing over at Candorville.Lemont is moving to Canada to be with his girlfriend in Vancouver, whose name, as far as we know so far, is simply “Vancouver.” They met on-line and he’s been up there to visit her.Once.I’d love to be a romantic, but, boy oh boy, I’m […]

Matt Wuerker posted an unusual query on Facebook the other day, and, as you’ll see at the right, he got 133 comments and, as you’ll see above, he got a pretty good cartoon out of it.I don’t know how many words Eskimos, or Inuits for that matter, have for snow. In New England, we get […]

Yesterday was about my desperate search for comics that were only funny and not thought-provoking.Today, we’ll spin that another direction, starting with the new Existential Comics in which Socrates is forced to undergo a Socratic examination, of which the above panel is an excerpt.And Socrates is wrong: It’s very funny, and I say that as […]

Okay, here’s what I’ve been needing: Brewster Rockit serves up a Monday morning comic that is impossible to overthink. Pure silliness is a very good thing and thank god I’m off to a start with no serious thoughts whatsoever.Let’s keep it that way. Juxtaposition of the Sound Effects (Baby Blues) (Poptropica) (Bottomliners)See? It’s not that hard […]

I tried. I really did. But, again, I got distracted.I had pulled out today’s Baby Blues, because it coincides with Hasbros’ announcement that they are dropping the boot, the thimble and the wheelbarrow tokens from Monopoly and adding a rubber ducky, a T Rex and a penguin, and I was simply going to laugh at the […]

When I saw Harry Bliss’s cartoon this morning, I thought, “How nice! I can just riff on reefer snobs and avoid all the heavy topics!”We’ve got medical marijuana here in the Granite State, though there was a gap between making the shops legal and letting them actually open up and I’m not sure if it’s […]

John Branch wins the day, the week, possibly the month or more.The challenge of finding humor in this ongoing horror show seems to involve either irrelevant personal attacks or a lot of misinterpretation of what’s going on, but Branch gets the gist of poor Sean Spicer who, forced to find loopholes in the loopy, seized […]

(Pearls Before Swine) (Lola)A juxtaposition on a rant familiar to those who follow this blog: Who is your audience and are you excluding young readers who form the future?Apparently, judging by this pair, the answer to the first part is “People in their forties,” which isn’t such a bad thing, though it doesn’t address the […]

Let’s warm up with a little Sally Forth, in which Hilary’s off-again-on-again garage band has been booked to play a school dance.On first take, it reminds me of college radio, in which there seems invariably to be disk jockeys intent on playing the most obscure stuff they can dig up, on the apparent premise that […]