Art holds a mirror up to Nature. The Buckets come along, turn the mirror on Art and say, “Look how goofy you’re acting. Now get to work, Art. Your kids need an Xbox 360.”
The Buckets comic strip isn’t a parody of family life. Parodies are filled with hearts and rainbows or enraged tirades and dramatic confrontation. The Buckets, though? Nope. Real life, baby. It’s funny because it’s on a page and not in your house at the moment. Next week, when it’s happening to you, you’ll thank us for reminding you that it’s supposed to be funny.
Greg Cravens looks in the mirror and see not himself, but all of us. And then he draws up the silly, grand, goofy, thrilling, utterly human things we do and calls it The Buckets.
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Agent54 said, 5 months ago
Current Event in school make them more aware than most people over 20 of what is going on in the world. .
batterd_citizen said, 5 months ago
Rosenberg writes a geek comic
Greg Cravens
said, 5 months ago
A very fine geek comic.
listmom said, 5 months ago
@Greg Cravens
Darn you, Greg Craven’s! Now I have yet another comic to follow!
Greg Cravens
said, 5 months ago
That’d be fine, if only Jon would send some of his readers to me, too!
Allan said, 5 months ago
Favourite Actor? Sir Patrick Stewart.
Favourite Actress? Terry Ferrel.
Favourite Politician? Honestly, I don’t like blood sucking creatures.
ossiningaling said, 5 months ago
@Greg Cravens
Doesn’t mean Jon couldn’t also have a day job. Especially one that is part-time.
whmIII said, 5 months ago
@Greg Cravens
More like “tragedy”…
Comic Minister said, 5 months ago
Whatever you say Toby.
Number Three said, 5 months ago
Haha… Love Larry’s expression in the last panel.
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eric sanders
said, 5 months ago
@listmom
Not to worry – GoComics doesn’t carry “Goats”…
WendellWit
said, 5 months ago
Actually, “Goats” is on a sadly-extended hiatus that won’t end until he finishes self-publishing his fourth in the series of books from the long-running comic story (my favorite is “The Corndog Imperative”, in which he branched out from talking animals to talking vegetables). But he is making almost-daily comic commentaries on modern society via alternate universes in “Tales from a Multiverse”, at the semi-easily accessible amultiverse dot com.
That said, he could have just as easily said Kristopher Straub, who is on gocomics with reruns of his best comic “Starslip”, or Doug Savage whose “Savage Chickens” is simultaneously own-sited and gocomic-ed, but those don’t look as much like the name of a congressperson.
Of course, he could’ve used the name of Greg Cravens, who also has a webcomic, but would that be showing too much Hubris? (I have wanted to make that joke for SO LONG)
Hunter7 said, 5 months ago
Yes. I Googled this Jon Rosenberg person. He exists.
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I know the names of my MP and MLA.
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Toby did well. Of course if all things being equal and hold true. ……. this will be the only name he remembers of who is his congressperson. …. Later …. it will be a surprise every election.