Recent Comments

1. about 2 hours ago on Pearls Before Swine

   … my darling. Just shut your pretty eyes

2. about 2 hours ago on Peanuts

   That pattern means that he’s the son of C.M. Burns

3. about 2 hours ago on Beardo

   How old is that kid? Ten?

4. 2 days ago on Grand Avenue

   He doesn’t have kids

5. 2 days ago on Andy Capp

   How will I let the audience know that a fight will happen because the character is Irish? I’ll name the character Eamon. But wait – some people might not know that Eamon is an Irish name. I’ll mention Guinness… but you don’t necessarily have to be Irish to drink Guinness. Screw it, I’ll make his nickname “Irish”

6. 3 days ago on C'est la Vie

   His boyfriend probably likes them

7. 3 days ago on Prickly City

   I like to identify what I call “crutches”, a fallback that cartoonists use when they don’t have an idea for a joke. I’m not putting anyone down for using them; every cartoonist does it. Some make bad puns and then call attention to the bad pun. Some have half a dozen or more (looking at you, little pink sock guy). But a cliffhanger when these two can’t believe what they’re about to see or who they’ve just run into…

8. 3 days ago on Prickly City

   My guess is Andy Dick

9. 3 days ago on Mutt & Jeff

   Is there a joke here? Jeff can’t spell a word, Mutt offers a suggestion- but it’s for the wrong word. Normally, one or both of the words would have factored into the joke – like if Jeff was behaving like a hypocrite. I feel that if the word was “dismissive”, there’d be kind of a joke.

10. 5 days ago on Rabbits Against Magic

    If Howard Stern was still friends with Trump, he’d be in charge of the FCC