This is today's Almanack, yet another one that somehow devolved into a finger puppet. My first idea was to do an ilustrated version of M...

Here are some old things to share while I compile my massive & exhaustive report on My Visit to New Orleans. Back in the early '90s ...

I've looked like this since getting back from New Orleans. My brother says time is measured differently in N.O., so maybe it's some ...

Here I am at the Reubens in New Orleans. That's me, with a beer (just like always, ha ha!) in between Mark Tattuli and Mike Mikula at Br...

On Friday at 1 pm several cartoonists attending the NCD deal will have a live online chat courtesy of the Washington Post, and I'll be o...

I'll be out of town till next Tuesday (see previous post). See you all then, and I'll have vacation photos to share! Oh boy! Till th...

This coming weekend is the National Cartoonists Society's annual Reuben Award Convention Thing, and guess who gets to go? Well, lots of ...

This is the original, slightly different, version of today's Cul de Sac. It's drawn from life, as we have a Baskin & Robbins abo...

Here are two poems from back around 1999. Neither of them has a reason to exist any more (in French that's raison d'etre), but I sti...

Newt Gingrich seems to be on the resurgence. I guess it's because the Republican Party is suddenly a great, yawning chasm and he's r...

According to the alert historians at the Janus Museum , May 14th is National Folksong Day. Since it's never to late too celebrate anythi...

Linus is an esteemed Italian comics magazine that publishes Italian cartoonists & writers as well as international strips & feature...

The above is last Sunday's Cul de Sac. This is an idea I had about 18 years ago. At the time, the Post's Sunday Outlook section was...

Contrary to the previous post, Mother's Day was founded 100 years ago by Anna Jarvis, whose single-minded efforts to recognize the accom...

This is all true, every word, I swear.

According to Mike Rhode's ComicsDC blog , yesterday was the anniversary of the first appearance of Ben Franklin's 1754 "Join, o...

If I remember right, the painting everybody knows as "Whistlter's Mother" is really entitled "Arrangement in Grey and Bla...

A current self-portrait. More later, when there's time.

This is maybe my favorite New Yorker cartoon, or my favorite that's not by Chast, Shanahan, Zeigler, Booth.... OK, it's my favorite ...

Alert readers (I have no other kind) may have noticed the "Cul de Sac: the Book" link to the right there. Here's what you ge...