Somehow I have dropped the habit of reading the comics in our daily paper, and I really should try to re-acquire it. (Now there’s a suggestion for summer reading to add to Collin Garbarino’s list: read the comics! But do it all year ‘round.) I do usually catch the color funnies on Sunday, and this week I was struck by the strip “Frank and Ernest,” by Tom Thaves. If you are not an afficionado of “Frank and Ernest,” allow me to recommend it. The last panel (almost always) accomplishes a pun, the sort of joke often unjustly derided as a low form of comedy, but quite difficult to pull off day in and day out with something both funny and fresh, much less with a true “groaner” as “Frank and Ernest” often does.
