Category: Comic strip

<strike>Three</strike> Four must-read Friday links

Three Four must-read Friday links

| September 20, 2013 | Reply

  First, Megan McArdle: “Banking without risk is impossible“: The fundamental fact of a banking crisis, which is different from a crisis in any other industry, is that if people believe a financial institution to be bankrupt, it actually is bankrupt. As Arnold Kling puts it, banks exist to reconcile the desire of households to […]

Read More

War and comics

War and comics

| August 22, 2013 | Reply

Harvey Kurtzman — to the extent he is remembered — is remembered for his iconic stories and drawing style from EC’s classic (and ultimately banned) horror comics, such as Tales from the Crypt. But, as this article by Matthew Gault over at War is Boring explains, Kurtzman pioneered a realistic, non-propagandist style of war comics […]

Read More

Happy Monday morning (except, of course, in Indianapolis)

Happy Monday morning (except, of course, in Indianapolis)

| February 8, 2010 | Reply

Click on the comic to see the non-squished version.  ..bruce w..

Read More