Last Thursday night, watching cable news and monitoring Twitter for updates on the shooting in Dallas, I re-experienced in condensed time the mixture of frustration, horror, fear and confusion we went through during the Boston Marathon bombing and the days[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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One of my least favorite habits of mainstream comic strip artists is the holiday greeting strip. The worst of them come at Christmas time, but the Fourth of July, Thanksgiving, and sometimes Halloween bring this out of American cartoonists, too.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
We talk a lot about elites. Our political system is broken by corporate elites. The elites in Washington (or Brussels or wherever) are out of touch with the people. The global elite has no national loyalties, implements policies that enrich[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This was the strip I meant to post last week, but life got in the way. Camping with my son led to a lot of back pain. Fortunately, we celebrate the sacrifices we made on the altar of war this[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I quit smoking on New Year’s Day this year. I do that every couple of years or so, and it often lasts for a few months or even several years. When I backslide, it’s often as a result of stress:[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
No specific issue this time, this week’s strip breaks from previous weeks by allowing Fetch to be more active with the world around us. Still snarky, but much more engaged. In this case, a street preacher seemed like a good[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Ever notice how most tv shows, movies, novels, poetry, classic rock songs, radio formats, presidential campaigns, educational curricula, medical research, and public policy are created and executed with middle class white dudes as a starring focus? No? Never mind. Art[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Last week Paramount released an image of Scarlett Johansson as Major Motoko Kusanagi, the hero of Ghost in the Shell, the popular manga series and groundbreaking anime the mid-90s. It did not go over well. I wish I could say[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This is about as autobio as this strip gets (so far, anyway.) I go through most of my waking day with this thought in the back of my head, that there is no God and the universe is a big,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…