Recent Comments

1. 4 months ago on Lisa Benson

   On point, Ms. Benson! Yes!

2. 6 months ago on Cul de Sac

   This family is soooo annoying! Maybe that’s why I like the strip so much, ha ha.

3. 7 months ago on Cul de Sac

   I wish that the artist had lived long enough to finally break down his mirth and allowed us, his fans, to meet Dill’s brothers. Then again, the mysterious brothers are such a integral part of the strip that it simply was too good a plot device to let go. It’s a joke that never gets tired. As a fellow cartoonist, it would be that way for me, too. Ha!

4. 9 months ago on Ink Pen

   Ouch!

5. 9 months ago on Steve Breen

   What a beautiful tribute, Mr. Breen. As a cartoonist myself, I can only hope to be able to produce editorial cartoons with the degree of sensitivity that your work commonly expresses. Farewell, Tony Bennett. My lasting memory of you was hearing your voice on the radio crooning, “I Left My Heart in San Francisco,” when I was a child. That was a long time ago and yet, in a sense, it was as if it were yesterday.

6. 12 months ago on Pickles

   Egad!!!

7. about 1 year ago on Steve Breen

   Liar, liar, pants on fire! Ha!

8. about 1 year ago on For Better or For Worse

   As a long-time follower of this strip, I read this particular episode with a bit of mirth (read: smirk). Everyone who has had children or spent time around kids as young as April know that there is only one way to retrieve a button, or any valuable coin-shaped thing, that is swallowed and that is to become a vigilant “poop watcher.” April doesn’t (yet) know how to flush a toilet so that less-than-pleasing task shouldn’t be too hard to accomplish (apparently it wasn’t difficult for her big sister). However, what astounded me about this humorous detour from the strip’s usual meditations on teen angst and parental over-care (or, for that matter, loving indifference) were the number of texts translating the episode a kind of cautionary tale about not remembering the past. Huh?!! What has all that got to do with a child swallowing a button? This is not the first time that I’ve encountered readers’ comments on a comic strip’s story line that seem to come from the proverbial left field. Oh, well, maybe it’s just me. I am a cartoonist, and it’s difficult for me to imagine my strip eliciting comments that would otherwise appear out of context with my story line. I would probably remind myself that it was high time to lay off the sauce.

9. over 1 year ago on Mutt & Jeff

   A vintage comic strip, “Little Nemo in Slumberland” used to accompany “Mutt and Jeff” in my daily comics subscription. Then, several months ago, it stopped. I know that it was not the lack of strips that caused it to disappear from my subscription stream. As a cartooning major at the High School of Art and Design in the mid-1960s, I read and studied this strip often; I loved Winsor McCay’s art work and the wondrous fantasy world that was Little Nemo’s patchwork of nightly dreams. The strip has been around since 1905 and is available in archival volumes. So, what happened, GoComics? Why did you give it the boot without letting me know what was going to happen?

10. about 2 years ago on Cul de Sac

    Richard Thompson, artist of “Cul De Sac,” died in 2016. I think that it is to his credit that his cartoon strip continues to both irritate and tickle our funny bones nearly six years after his death. Alice in particular, with her adult like jabber and ingratiatingly childish behavior (who is to say which one is “proper” for her) often meshing together like vinegar and milk. He was a great cartoonist, but you wouldn’t know it by his choice of graphic interpretation. His style was simple but not dismissive. We yearn for more of the Otterloop (“Petey Potterpoop”) nonsense but are left to treasure what we’ve got.