Here's something until I think of something better. Like a bridge column or Sudoku.

If I'd've had my druthers, I'd've gone to the ninth triennial Festival of Cartoon Art at Ohio State in Columbus this weekend...

As Mark Heath has identified our Halloween Putto as master cartoonist Charles Addams and thereby spoiled out plans to string this out for th...

Here's something appropriate for Halloween. Can you guess who he is?

I'm back, and I'm pooped, but it's a good kinda pooped. Above is a photo of the area where my syndicate has their offices; they&...

I'm off for a few days to confer, converse and otherwise hobnob with the ladies & gentlemen of the Syndicate who so expertly handle ...

Anybody reading this? You should be; it's probably a lot more fun to read than the Michaelis Schulz biography and it's definitely mo...

Did you know it's National Folksong Month? Well, you're wrong, I don't think it is. Still, here are two lovely folksongs just wa...

Another old cartoon, from the days when "Opus" launched. I just like the little bit with Charlie Brown's shirt, which seems an...

The statistics above are provided by Amazon.com. I'm not really sure what they mean, but boy, whatever they're describing sounds gre...

So, that drawing of Mitt Romney for the NYer fell through. After they okayed the sketch and I'd finished the color final and was about t...

I missed a book signing tonight at Politics & Prose by the Mighty Pat Oliphant. The deadlines done got me and I'm lonesome, blue and...

Anybody read this and care to comment on it? If you do, could you also cut and paste the text of the book into your comment? It'd make i...

Hope this doesn't ruin things for anybody.

While looking through some old drawings the other day, I was shocked and embarrassed to find that I'd used the same joke twice in cartoo...

So I have to draw Mitt Romney for the New Yorker and I find he's tougher to draw than you might think. They liked the sketch I sent them...

Thanks to all those who squatted in the darkness of Nick Galifianakis's living room Saturday night waiting for me. The look of shock sti...

So that went pretty well, though the audience seemed dismayed that I appeared to be 3-dimensional. More TK.

You haven't yet, Little Neuro, but time's running out! Those in foreign lands had better leave soon if they want to make it! Tonight...

So my big idea for the Almanack cartoon that's due today fell apart into little pieces and I had to think of something else. Which seems...

Can you find THIS blog in that mass of tiny dots? Hint- it's 23,476th from the bottom right. Can you find YOUR blog? Other hint- it'...

A Ceramic Phrenology Inkwell, phrenological areas marked in black, mid 19th century, English, excellent condition. Only 536 English pounds (...

I've still got time to put this up (which I swiped from Jim Borgman, who kindly put it up. When I learn how the scanner works I'll r...

It's that time of the week again again. And I'd so hoped to share my technique for inadvertantly giving yourself a jailhouse tattoo ...

This illustrated a Wash Post Magazine story by the genius polymath Joel Achenbach. Briefly, he hit a bunch of open houses on a Sunday, house...

Here's a cartoon that's about 8 years old that I still like. (I tried to post it earlier; if you're getting a blank space let me...

Apologies for the blank space that appeared instead of a cartoon in a previous and now-deleted post. The image was swiped off of the Look In...

Ooh, lookit that baby! The Hunt #101 Imperial nib, excellent for penmanship, copperplate calligraphy, ornamental work and funny cartoons. Wi...

People sometimes ask me How Do You Do It? But for some reason nobody makes it past the 45 minute mark of my answer, where it's just gett...

Next Friday, October 12th, I'm giving a talk at the Writers' Center in Bethesda MD at 7:30 pm. It's timed to coincide with the...

I thought of this about 20 or more years ago, but it took me about ten to get around to drawing it. The original plan was to come up with a ...

I need a dingbat to use as a placeholder for when I can't think of anything funny to post because I have to draw a cartoon, and nothing ...

It feels like summer here in Northern VA. So let's play mini golf! Or is it putt putt, I'm not clear on the difference. This is just...

Hey everybody, now's your chance! Go to Washington Post Cartoon Genius Nick Galifianakis's online chat and ask him questions, like: ...

This is about a year old, but you know, it's really timeless. And I found it on the computer so up it goes! I'm just emptying old dr...

This is being posted a few hours early, unless you're a few time zones east of here in the middle of the Atlantic. October 2nd is the bi...

As today's Cul de Sac features the first syndicated appearance of the guinea pig Mr. Danders, I'd like to talk a bit about talking a...

Here are the last two of the sequence that was shot down. Someday maybe you'll read it in the funny pages and vaguely remember it and ge...