Wednesday marked the 30th anniversary of the launch of Bill Watterson’s Calvin and Hobbes. To note the anniversary Lee Salem recalls working with Bill:You worked closely with Watterson for more than 10 years, remaining a friend after 30 years. Please share a few of your favorite memories of working with him. From an editorial perspective, Bill was […]
Yes! Exactly! You’re both right!Okay, I’m not entirely sure Kevin Siers meant that, but they are. I think his intention is that it kind of sticks us in one place, and I won’t argue with that, either.Obama is right that repeating the follies that got us here won’t get us out of here, and that ramping […]
I may have to get off social media for awhile, because the storm of bigotry and chickenhawk nonsense is starting to become overwhelming.I’m not convinced they represent a majority. It could be like having lilac bushes blooming in your yard, only someone ran over a skunk on the road in front of your house.On the […]
Let’s start with the silly and work our way down to the Meaningful. I think the joke in today’s Buckets is that Greg Cravens draws the two characters as eight-year-olds, but the people actually having this conversation are 50 and older, and work in the front offices of Marvel and DC.Which, as I understand it, is […]
I came to this morning assuming there wouldn’t be many editorial cartoons with anything new to say about the Paris attacks and there weren’t, mostly because there wasn’t much to say in the first place, and I think I pretty much touched on the best commentaries yesterday.And there were some good ones.Yesterday.Funny how often the […]
These responses to the Paris attacks are from Cartoon Movement, a site that not only has the advantage of being international but which has a quicker response time than the syndicates and newspapers here. There have already been several posted and I’m sure more will follow.The speed factor is an obvious benefit, but the international aspect means […]
(Jimmy Margulies) (John Cole)This Juxtaposition of the Day comes with a Grande serving of insider stuff, which is only “insider” if you haven’t friended cartoonists:Usually, these coincidences pop up as a shock over breakfast, but Margulies posted this on his Facebook page yesterday and Cole responded with a horrified-but-admiring “You’ve walked all over my cartoon […]
(K Chronicles) (Win, Lose, Drew)Our first Juxtaposition of the Day is about the forced resignation of the University of Missouri president, as well as the announced resignation of the chancellor which followed.Another type of juxtaposition would be to compare them with the whining rightwing cartoons that suggest the players should just shut up and hike […]
Start with the easy one, derided here by the New Yorker’s Benjamin Schwartz.Suddenly there’s a huge flood of commentary about how Jeb! Bush told reporters that, if time travel were possible, he would go back in time and kill Baby Hitler.I had to go back and find out where this came from. Turns out NYTimes Magazine […]
As we get into the Season of Redcup, I’d like to take a moment to talk about kids and the future of cartooning and the fact that I have to hit the road momentarily and don’t have time to go through all the cartoons in the world this morning.But this really is a topic I […]
Today’s Candorville provides a springboard for all sorts of good rants.One is to ask if people know their IQs these days?It used to be a no-no to publicize those scores, and certainly to let a kid know his own IQ, in large part for the reasons Clyde gives: It prejudices the way people react to […]
There are times that Africartoons serves up things that are crystal clear globally, and times it’s so local that I don’t have a clue what they’re on about. That’s a good thing, because if “All politics is local,” then solid commentary should also be.But this Dr. Jack and Curtis cartoon sent me over to Google […]
So Ben Carson is self-destructing.Or he’s not.Andy Marlette offers an appealing take on the West Point issue, because, of course, Parson Weems’ “chopping down the cherry tree” story is the kind of bogus legend our nation was built on.History is full of appealing stories that didn’t happen and quotes that were never said, and what […]
(Jen Sorensen) (Pat Bagley)Jen Sorensen notes the ugly attitude that pervades our increasingly ugly culture: We won’t help you with aid, nor will we help you with policies that might let you lift yourself out on your own.Meanwhile, Pat Bagley depicts the paranoid hostility that fosters this ugly, hateful attitude in what should be a […]
Friend-of-the-Blog Brian Fies passed along an educational comic about an interesting woman of whom I had not heard, Gertrude Bell, in large part because she reminded him of Nellie Bly, of whom I did a children’s biography a few years back.Bell and Bly come out of a period in which a lot of very intelligent […]