Home / Section: Editorial cartooning CSotD: Can’t Anybody Here Play This Game? A salute to Casey Stengel, who could pull a bird out of his hatbut, as manager of the 1962 Mets, was unable to pull many wins out of a team that finished their inaugural season with a 40-120 record, prompting him to ask … Read more
Home / Section: Books Meandering Thru Monday – with Updates © Tauhid Bondia Stopped and got the local McClatchy newspaper today. Cost me $3.00 plus tax (for 16 pages!) but I got me a tearsheet of Tauhid Bondia‘s first syndicated Crabgrass. © Peanuts Worldwide Title IX was not tremendously popular with everyone when it … Read more
Home / Section: Comic strips Los Angeles Times Overhauls Comics Pages The Los Angeles Times has revamped it daily and Sunday comics pages. We’re excited to introduce five cartoons to our readers, beginning with the June 27 print edition and eNewspaper. These are the results of an overall review of the syndicated comics … Read more
Home / Section: Editorial cartooning CSotD: Elsewhere in the news… The current question for political commentators seems to be “Can you walk and chew gum at the same time?” Adam Zyglis drew this cartoon before SCOTUS handed down their abortion decision last week, but it’s a good marker of where we’re at, because, amid all … Read more
Home / Section: Animation Recalling the Cartoonists of Carmel On the East Coast they have Cartoon County. On the West Coast there is the city of Carmel. They used to congregate at a Carmel coffee shop on the same afternoon each week, having come into town to share stories, reminisce, poke fun. These were … Read more
Home / Section: Comic strips CSotD: The Wait-What School of Humor My distaste for awards is sort of a running gag here, and this Sherman’s Lagoon (AMS) pretty well sums it up. It reminded me of an item in the late Charley Stough’s “BONG Bulletin” — a periodic on-line roundup of news, gossip and jokes … Read more
Home / Section: Animation The First Weekend Whatnots of Summer Real Estate Listing: Terry Manor For Sale Location: Bronxville, New York – Price: $5.995 million Originally built in 1935, Terry Manor is a fully restored and renovated Tudor-style home set on nearly an acre of park-like property in Lawrence Park West, a tree-lined neighborhood … Read more
Home / Section: Editorial cartooning CSotD: Rum, Romanism and Rebellion, 2022 Version Burchard’s quote hasn’t aged very well, has it? The Republicans of today — no longer the “Party of Lincoln” — have become eager to see Catholic doctrine made law, and are not simply tolerant of attempted insurrection but actively defend it. As for … Read more
Home / Section: Comic strips CSotD: Stepping Up To The Friday Funnies Pros & Cons (KFS) comes as close to political as I plan to get today, in part because I’m finding the whole thing exhausting and in part because Lyndon sums up my take more concisely than I would. People are complaining that Bill … Read more
Home / Section: Editorial cartooning CSotD: Random Reactions Ben Jennings starts us off because I simply like the way he offers a visual depiction of how inflations feels to consumers. That’s more than sufficient, given that the point of cartooning is to put concepts into graphic form. But I also like that he’s not trying … Read more
