Beloved Jazz Pickles, as promised, today is finally here; I’ve launched the website for my graphic novel, Peyote Cowboy, free for anyone to read. It’s been a long journey so I’m pretty excited! Read all about it in this special post.

I hate to think it but there may be people not familiar with the pop-culture reference in this week’s Sunday comic. If that describes you, look up “lone ranger tropes,” then come back and laugh. If you’re among those who refuse to wear a mask under any circumstance, you may…

Hey, Jazz Pickles, how are you holding up? Inhabiting these meat bodies as they shuffle around on this floating rock has always been a weird experience but ¡DAMN! it’s been especially weird lately. More for some than for others…

I have to admit I have not read a single article about the college football controversy. (And I never watch video news.) But from the headlines I’ve seen in my periphery, I’m guessing…

In last week’s post, I skipped the profound, heartfelt, armchair philosophy and instead, offered a few amusing thoughts about that day’s cartoon. A good number of Jazz Pickles said they enjoyed my occasional pontifications and hoped they would continue, so I’ll happily comply today. This one is about no less than…

If you had a food product that you were trying to market to the public, would you call it “shaved ice”? I would not. The word “shaved” invokes thoughts of hair, stubble, nicks, and cuts, not frozen treats…

I haven’t looked this up, but pretend that I have and that I’m saying it with authority: Since the invention of letters, no other graphic form of communication has caught on with the speed and saturation of the planet as has…

The above cartoon created more “I don’t get it” comments than I had anticipated, but I get it. One thing that cartoonists sometimes attempt to do is to lead the viewer to perceive something differently than usual. The bait-and-switch that happens in your head…

The above cartoon is dark, but dark times sometimes call for dark humor. As I’ve preached many times on this blog, humor is both a uniquely human and uniquely powerful way to deal with the tougher aspects of life: tragedy, fear, loss, anxiety.

In popular culture and casual conversation, people tend to talk about “karma” as though it were a kind of universal point system wherein if you do something bad or good, something bad or good will happen to you in return. I have to admit that I long believed that karma was basically that and I assume many others do, too. But recently I came across a more complete definition of karma that is making a lot more sense to me and it’s this…

I’ve heard more than a few people recently, some in my own family, express anxiety and depression over the uncertainty of the world going forward. I get it. You’d have to be a fifth-degree blackbelt Buddhist monk not to have some concerns at this point.

Of the cartoon above, some readers might say, “Is that supposed to be a lesbian couple? Why do you have to shove that stuff down our throats in the Sunday comics where children can see it?”

To which I would say,…

I approach this blog post each week meaning to write something funny, but lately the events of the world since the previous post have been just so damned important that it is hard to ignore them. I sit down to write comedy and I think, what’s funny about…

First: This cartoon idea came to me moments after I read one that Wayno did some weeks ago. Remember this timeless classic?

Second: As a person who has been in the comedy-writing business for over 30 years, I realize that many if not most people have no interest in my…

As our caveman friends above play a very early game of rock, paper, scissors, it makes me long for a simpler world. I’m as hooked on modern civilization as anyone else who was born and raised in it, but it doesn’t take an Einstein to see that we’ve created an unsustainable world and it will be our undoing.

If you’re one of the millions of Americans with a chair stuck to your butt, the good news is that now there’s help. In fact, no matter your personal tragedy, there’s a very good chance there’s a support group for it, where you can share your experiences with other folks in a similar situation.

I’ll start today by saying that I find the art of miming a very strange thing. When someone does it well, like Marcel Marceau, it is undeniably magical and can be very entertaining. But somehow, it also quickly becomes annoying and widely despised. I am among those who…

I drew this cartoon just as the Thing That Broke the World was getting started and before masks were as common as they are now, which is why only one character is wearing one. Do NOT take this to mean that I support reopening the country so that a tiny percentage of childish adults pretending to understand the meaning of patriotism can stop being inconvenienced…

Bigfoot is a character who's been dealing with self-isolation for who-knows-how-many centuries or millennia so he knows the challenges of staying clean, neat, and stylish when you know damn well…

It’s been a sci-fi-strange week in a sci-fi-strange time. Who would have guessed even ten years ago that the world would be living out a Simpson’s episode in real-time? But this one has had all the jokes removed…