But first, Stephen Collins has a funny commentary based on the World Cup, though the tournament may be over before you see this. However, you should go see the whole thing, of which this is a snippet.Glad to see someone, as they say in Britain, taking the piss out of the snobs who brag about […]
There have been a flood of cartoons about the Capital Gazette murders, but Marshal Ramsey offers the sentiment that matters to me.I also like Liza Donnelly’s quiet, controlled tribute, because she didn’t overplay it, though she added a commentary that spoke of sorrow, which I appreciate, saying, in part: We don’t know yet the motive for the […]
“You must be looking through my windows!” is a common remark made to cartoonists, but mostly about domestic comedy strips. However, today’s Carpe Diem makes me suspect that Niklas Erikson was following me around at one newspaper I worked where, at the department head meetings, I made myself unpopular by, when someone mentioned an uptick or […]
Tom Falco is letting his print subscription to the Miami Herald run out and will subscribe to the digital edition.He writes:I don’t remember ever not receiving a daily newspaper delivery, even from when I was a child. But the newspaper is not arriving! I’m paying for it but it doesn’t come. We had a problem […]
Cartoonists seem stumped by the Equifax hack. I don’t know when I’ve seen a topic inspire such a diversity of responses, and I’d be tempted to collect and discuss them, except that some are so wrong-headed that I’d run into a Prime Directive issue.Dan Wasserman has what I see as the best interpretation of it […]
Ben Bolt hit me squarely this morning.To bring you up to speed, in this 1956 story arc (which I noted earlier came out at roughly the same time as “Rebel Without a Cause”), Ben has befriended a young hood who lost a leg in a game of vehicular chicken, and found him a job as […]