Archive for the 'comics' Category
Fun With the Family Circus
Couldn’t Resist
-Sigh- Sometimes the Keanes make it too easy…
Read More..>>More Kinky Komix
I’ve said for a LONG time that greg johnson has issues.
Today’s strip adds more evidence to the growing pile.
Pickin’
Jim Scancarelli, the third writer/illustrator to be responsible for Gasoline Alley is a bluegrass fan, and the strip brings up the genre fairly regularly.
In any event, today’s strip isn’t funny: it’s simply a factual statement. Pickin’ music really IS the best way to pick up the spirits.
Huh?
What does that even mean?
Is the wine making Ziggy cry, or is it because he’s reflecting on the pointlessness of his existence?
Hulk
Atrios links to trailers for what had better be an awesome movie.
In that spirit, I offer you the comprehensive list of things that make Hulk Smash. I like how so many of them begin with “inexplicably” and “somehow”.
98. Crawling through the sensitive, highly dangerous electrical service tunnel
for no apparent reason, only to accidentally [...]
Lookin’ Good!
Why do Veronica’s arms in panel 1 look like she just finished a torture session on the rack?
Read More..>>Oh For the Love Of…
I haven’t blogged much about For Better or For Worse lately, since it’s kind of become a this weird hybrid of repeats and strips not written by Lynn Johnston, but yesterday’s “Marriage of Liz and Anthony” strip just takes the cake for ridiculousness.
To recap a bit: Granthony and Liz have been carrying on this completely [...]
Garfield Minus Garfield
Garfield Minus Garfield.
As the banner says “Who would have guessed that when you remove Garfield from the Garfield comic strips, the result is an even better comic about schizophrenia, bipolor disorder, and the empty desperation of modern life?”
Some samples (but really, you have to visit):
Brilliant. Totally fucking brilliant. I don’t know who you are GMG [...]
Read More..>>February 16, 1927
I’m sure that, like me, you’re wondering “What happened on February 16, 1927?”
So I did some research.
For starters, there was a frolic in Duluth.
Some obscure politicians were born and/or died, and Justice Hugo Black celebrated his 41st birthday.
William Fred Quesse, “American labor leader and president of the Building Service Employees International Union, the precursor of [...]
