Mr. Fitz gave me a bit of a nostalgia jolt, plus (once more) the wish I’d had him for a teacher.When I was in sixth grade, we were all entered in an essay contest for someone or other, for which I wrote a piece about Buddy, the first Seeing Eye Dog.My teacher took me aside […]
(Gary Varvel) (Bob Gorrell)These two conservatives were fast out of the gate with a pair of cartoons that seem to go deeper into the DACA issue than the more liberal response so far, much of which has been plays on “dreams” and “nightmares.”Pointing out that Dreamers are in a tough spot is like pointing out […]
Candorville leads off what could be a very depressing day if I let it.I’m nearly ready to take a break from Facebook, because the place is far more full of feuds than conversations, and I get tired of pissing into the wind.For example, we’re got another social media lynch mob forming over that unjustifiable, boneheaded, […]
“It’s like you’re looking through our windows” is a comment that cartoonists who specialize in family and relationship comics often hear from readers. It isn’t a cliche, but rather a sign that they’re hitting the target.Comics that connect on a personal level are particularly welcome in the midst of a political crisis when it all […]
I’m kind of stumbling downstairs into the detritus from last night’s party and trying to recollect what happened and put off cleaning up the mess.There’ve been a lot of cartoons about fireworks lately, but I like today’s Frazz best, though I’m applying it to dogs rather than to people.For some reason, this was the Year […]
Scott Stantis continues his dark night of the soul with today’s Prickly City, which lays out our State of Disunion, and Carmen’s comment at the end is less a punchline than a summation.Yes, it’s come to this.Were you waiting for Fort Sumter? Pfft — That’s such a 19th Century way to kick off a Civil […]
Once again a Prickly City strip defies lead time constraints, thanks to a situation that feels both predictable and insoluable. There is a chance that Scott Stantis will get his tail in a crack one day, that some event will shake things up to the point where he’s suddenly stuck with a lineup of strips that […]
Yesterday pretty much wrapped up the Paris Accord/Trump Isolationism sequence in my mind. More cartoons are drifting in, but, as is so often the case, the first burst contained both the obvious ones and the truly inspired and from there out it’s all chaff.The other yawner at this stage is the Kathy Griffin thing. I […]
Poor Carmen, the conservative half of the Prickly City duo, has been undergoing a dark night of the soul since even before the elections, in the course of which Scott Stantis brought in a sympathetic Bernie Sanders character and Carmen wound up working for Gary Johnson.Last week, she and Winslow, the liberal coyote, compared 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 […]