Some notes on newspaper comic strips from the past week. King Features Gets Into the Foodservice Business It is not unusual for Zippy to visit a diner, though he did so in five of the six dailies this week. And the Motel Cafe has been the center of the Rex Morgan universe for three months […]

Nancy Beiman gave us a three week notice of the annual “holy day.” The others mostly waited until today. Today comic strips transition from World Press Freedom Day (not mentioned at all) and National Star Wars Day (many references yesterday) to National Cartoonist Day/Cinco de Mayo. Or Inko de Mayo.Lalo Alcaraz and Chip Sansom weren’t […]

It’s true and it could trigger a whole rant, but instead let’s put aside the bad vibes for a day and have a few laughs.You can decide for yourself whether this is bad vibes or a laugh, but IMHO it’s only funny when everything else in the relationship is working. Which is true of all […]

Having deleted several cartoons, both strips and political, that referred to Dear Leader’s now-moribund slush fund, it was a surprise to find a case of coincidental timing that did apply to something in the news. Not that it’s all that encouraging, but these days you have to take whatever you can get. Enough politics: It’s […]