What are we gonna do with this guy?His nonsensical insistence that law enforcement not look into lawbreaking and his posturing as an imperial power “demanding” their obedience is drawing forth think pieces about how “The Constitutional Crisis is Here” and comparisons to Nixon’s Saturday Night Massacre.Ann Telnaes makes the most dramatic (American) mockery of him, […]
Today’s Big Nate provides a cliffhanger to which every wiseass and class clown can relate.I used to draw/write little fake newspapers full of parody news pieces that weren’t terribly masked in terms of whom I was spearing, and they got passed around a lot.The only blow-back I recall was a story senior year about the […]
Zits taps the increasingly ridiculous world of “therapy animals.”I’m so old I can remember when, on an email listserv, the quite serious topic of safely transporting dogs on airplanes came up, and someone jokingly suggested donning dark glasses and pretending your pet was a Seeing Eye Dog so he could ride in the cabin.The response […]
I was into my Vintage line-up this morning and was struck by “today’s” (December 14, 1956) Big Ben Bolt, in which Ben’s sidekick is talking to a woman he’s smitten with about her college-aged son. It’s three panels of two people talking to each other, and John Cullen Murphy had to make some choices, given how […]