…and I'll tell you what kept me away in a couple of days…no big deal. More important is that I tell you about my new book… The Essential Peanuts The Greatest Comic Strip of All Time By Mark Evanier Introduction by Patrick McDonnell Foreword by Jean Schulz Publication Date: October 7, 2025 From award-winning author […]
Tomorrow, a fine publisher will be announcing the new book I've authored about a great creator of comics. Unfortunately, I can't tell you who it is even though Amazon has already listed the book. […]
Daniel Dale of CNN lists some more of the fibs our Commander-in-Chief has been telling about tariffs and U.S. trade with other countries. I can remember when the kind of folks who back Trump called Al Gore a congenital liar for uttering one syllable that was arguably inaccurate. […]
…or at least it was one of the longest days I've had in a long time. On very little sleep — because of an urgent deadline — I went out to Santa Monica and hosted the Mike Schlesinger Celebration. Hundreds gathered to salute our late friend…and I was told it went well but I was […]
Mel Narunsky writes, referencing a line in this post… Being an American, you unknowingly came up with a marvelous pun: Sheldon had first spotted Dick in the 1959 Broadway revue The Girls Against the Boys…" Spotted Dick is a traditional British steamed pudding, historically made with suet and dried fruit (usually currants or raisins) and […]
I'm hearing nothing but good things about Boop!, the new musical on Broadway based on the old Max Fleischer cartoons. I expect to get back to New York before the year is out and it looks like it'll still be there. This footage of the curtain call at its first New York preview sure looks […]
I would love to see the American economy rebound and do better and better…but I'm not going to believe that's happening until Trump has some real quotes to share from respected economists and industry leaders who aren't inclined to smooch his buttocks. As the Associated Press points out, claims that liberal skillionaire Warren Buffett has […]
We haven't had any barbershop quartet on this blog for some time so here's The Bank of Harmony with a medley of three Hanna-Barbera theme songs… […]
Back here, I wrote that I do not believe that it was ever a close contest between Dick Van Dyke and Johnny Carson as to which of them would star in what was eventually called The Dick Van Dyke Show. This prompted a note from my pal Vince Waldron, author of a great book on […]
Trump and his supporters — especially Marjorie Taylor Greene — like to cite "The Fentanyl Crisis" as justification for much of what they're doing or want to do to immigrants. There is a crisis there, though perhaps not as severe as they make it out to be, and a lot of it doesn't have much […]
Another segment I liked on a recent Daily Show… […]
Jan Wagner of The San Diego Union-Tribune was at WonderCon and seems to have enjoyed everything — especially our Cartoon Voices panel. […]
FactCheck.org discusses how misleading Trump's chart about his tariffs was. And the folks at Snopes explain some of the math in those charts. Trump is citing a number of economists as being optimistic about his tariffs. According to Glenn Kessler, they don't think so much of it. I'm not seeing many people who do like […]
More sad news this morning…the passing of actress Elaine Ballace who, I believe I read on Facebook, had been battling pancreatic cancer in recent months. Elaine was not only an actress but also a model and a writer and a producer and a director and an activist for various worthy causes and, much earlier in […]
So: Trump announces tariffs all over the place and the next thing you know, the Dow Jones Industrial Average drops 1679.39 points and Fox News stops showing the little "How's the stock market doing at the moment?" ticker on their screen. Here's Paul Krugman explaining just some of what's wrong with the plan. He's a […]