Stephan Pastis, the genius behind Pearls Before Swine, orders a tuna sandwich for lunch, and amuses himself unconstructively by doing this .

Here's a slice of desperate graveyard humor for the imploding newspaper business. If they could only reposition themselves as something ...

The First Family makes its way down Wilson Blvd on Fat Tuesday (photo thanks to Jennifer Hart, Arlington), and they're followed by Gov. ...

Sarah and Barack can't wait to meet you at the Mardi Gras Parade, Tuesday at 8 pm, Courthouse to Clarendon on Wilson Blvd in Arlington. ...

Here, I posted this last year, but too late to do anybody any good.

This isn't entirely true. I did see Wall-E. And this may be the clumsiest lettering I've done, at least for this month.

Here's the grisly finale to our little story.

I'm proud to have done the first cartoon featuring an assorted jellies caddy. 

You may remember the above from last year. Here's this year's Clarendon Mardi Gras poster. Various diverse hands have been construct...

Is that thing a tiki head, an Easter Island head or Abraham Lincoln? I just figure it's a pretty off-putting restaurant tchotchke and no...

Since I've got nothing to say and no time to say it, I'll just post the week's Cul de Sacs. Here are Tuesday's and Wednesday...

This week the Otterloops go to P.J.Piehole's Family Restaurant, which I stole from the Poor Almanac. It's my futile attempt to bette...

And some advice; if you're on a deadline and in a hurry, draw candy. It's quick 'n' easy!

I did this in March '04. It kinda wrote itself, and seemed to make sense. In some interview years ago Maurice Sendak said that in Dicken...

As Alan Gardner kindly pointed out, today is Cul de Sac's 5th birthday. Which has me worried, as Alice is only four, so I've someho...

I stole Oont from a Bugs Bunny cartoon. Don't nobody tell!

I'm confident that this is the only instance of a comic strip using Gutzon Borglum for a cheap laff.

Here's what's filling up space in the Post Style section today.

Comics aficianado, scholar & journalist extraordinaire Chris Mautner asked me for a list of the books on my bedside table, which I'm...

This is either a booboo, a technical glitch or an editorial oversight, I drew a misdirected pointer, or "tang", on the final ballo...