CSotD: Year End Click-O-Rama
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I'm using this cartoon because, in it, my little pal Edison Lee sums up my feelings about New Year's Eve.
Also because I think it's the only syndicated cartoon in the universe that didn't do a New Year's Eve gag about falling asleep early. Reading cartoons about falling asleep on New Year's Eve is kind of like seeing someone yawn.
Contagious.
Okay, I'm exaggerating. They weren't all about falling asleep before midnight.
But none of the others I saw were as cool as this one, by Cuban-born, Mexican-dwelling cartoonist Angel Boligán. Anyone who can turn a selfie gag — a yawner in most hands — into this keeper has my admiration. I think it's all in the anatomy of the two figures, from the musculature on those pudgy little legs to the hand-check on the knee to the weary, semi-bewildered gaze of the old man, but whatever the reason, I love this piece.
Not only does Matt Wuerker get a tip of the hat for pointing out that Boligan cartoon, but in gratitude I'm letting his "Best of 2013 Gallery" go first.
Which means he gets to cut in line ahead of Nick Anderson.
And Scott Stantis, who continues to be one of my favorites, not because I always agree with him, but because conservatives with their own actual, coherent set of values are such an endangered species that spotting one in the wild is a rare delight.
Speaking of rare delights, don't be intimidated when you go to the site for Adam Zyglis's year end wrap, because the Buffalo News will try to make you buy a subscription, but you can see the whole thing and count it as one of your free visits, and the rest of the time, you can find his work here.
Or you can subscribe to the Buffalo News, but the rest of the news from the Niagara Frontier seems to be over for a few months now. In any case, he doesn't have to be a rare delight.
Matt Bors has a small but well-chosen gallery of his best here.
Kal made one gigantic wrap-up, which will take at least clicking on the image to expand it, if not super vision. You'd probably do better by visiting the Sun so you can see the larger, interactive version.
And I ran Tom Tomorrow's part one last week, and now here's part two.
This ought to be enough to keep you out of trouble for a little while, but, if you know of a wrap-up slide show I missed, please link it in the comments.
I saw one that promised the year's best political cartoons plus explanations. Made me laugh: Apparently someone has a different set of criteria for "best" than mine.
And, believe me, when it comes to explaining things that didn't need to be explained, I bow to nobody.
So pop a cork for me tonight. I'll be asleep before midnight, but not by accident.
Midnight's pretty over-rated, y'know.
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