Category: Cartooning

Two of My Favorite Things

At the NCS conference last August, Colleen Doran and I discussed how, generally, comic book people are more familiar with comic strips than comic strip people are familiar with comic books. Today’s Jumble has an exception to that generality.

Boomer boy that I am, Marvel Comics from the Sixties are one of my favorite things. Another is, of course, the Beatles.

LBJ was notorious for strong-arming legislators into voting his way. What if he had been a flat-out authoritarian president, like Trump? Could he have kept the Beatles out of America?

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/could-president-deploy-wartime-law-203749200.html

The Adams Family

Yesterday, I was once again confirmed to be free of cancer. Scott Adams, two years younger than myself, hasn’t been so fortunate. He is nearing the end of his life from cancer.

In what feels like a sort of online farewell tour, Scott had some of his fans on today’s streaming video. They express their appreciation of Adams and their admiration for Trump and his regime.

Downtime

When you’re alone and Trump is making you angry
You can always take some downtime
When you’ve got worries, all the pieces and lack of hurry
Seems to help, I know, downtime

Just get yourself jigsaw puzzled
Linger on the pieces so your thoughts are muzzled
How can you lose?

So take some downtime
Things will be great when you’re in downtime
No finer place for sure, downtime
Jigsaw puzzles are waiting for you

Just hang around and don’t let your problems surround you
There are jigsaw puzzles waiting for you
Maybe you know where some little pieces go to
Where they belong

Downtime
Downtime

– With apologies to Petula