Recent Comments

1. about 3 years ago on Barney & Clyde

   This is despicable. Imagine making a case for armed robbery. Better, imagine trying to explain the morality behind this strip to a young child. The flat slob who writes this strip should’ve been a criminal defense lawyer.

2. over 3 years ago on Betty

   That’s a pretty lame oversimplification of “Hemingway’s style.” Just because an author paints a scene that exemplifies racism and doesn’t follow it with some obviously damning commentary doesn’t mean they are endorsing it as a philosophy. Hemingway’s style was never about preaching morality. It was about showing us the rawest parts of life in the starkest of terms. The fact is, most cultures throughout much of the twentieth century were embedded with racism. Hemingway spoke to that truth in a very poignant way. That’s pretty neat that you have one of his cats, though. A friend of mine had a polydactyl cat and that thing was smart as hell.

3. over 3 years ago on Baldo

   Creepy!

4. over 3 years ago on Farcus

   Are these all repeats?

5. over 3 years ago on Brewster Rockit

   But… Miller Lite tastes so good.

6. over 3 years ago on Broom Hilda

   Shades of George Herriman evident in today’s Broom Hilda…

7. over 3 years ago on Frazz

   He’s trumpeting his own greatness by expressing a viewpoint of which he may be in favor? By allowing his comic to comment on the human condition? Give me a break. That’s the purpose of good art. An artist who is afraid to go there is doing it wrong. Moreover, you’re the one assuming this to be some negative statement about others. The kid is talking about himself; Mallett is expressing the viewpoint alongside others to give it meaning. I see nothing self congratulatory in these three panels, but only in your comment.

8. over 3 years ago on Frazz

   Ol’ Papa Hemingway is smiling down on this one… Interesting, too, as it relates to yesterday’s strip: Pheidippides is said to have uttered the words, “Joy to you, we have won” in addressing the Athenian magistrates regarding victory at the battle of Marathon. Of course, he dropped dead thereafter. Lucian relates this story as the “first use of the word ‘joy’ as a greeting.” Thus, it dawned on me that Pheidippides, tasked with delivering the noun, quite literally lived and died by the verb. Run, jump, play… action in itself is a noble and lifelong pursuit. Jef Mallett is a sharp one, methinks.