While I’m adjusting to apolitical weekdays, here are a pair of worthy publications I’ve been meaning to review.Ed Stein’s Sleeper Avenue is a sometimes sweet, sometimes slightly biting, memoir of growing up a half century ago, and he’s gathered his stories into a book format.I was looking back in my archives for a sample from a […]
I doubt anyone but Clay Jones would have had a Scalia cartoon ready by this morning. Not sure when he sleeps, but it doesn’t seem to be in any particular pattern.The GOP took the lead in demanding respect for the dead and simultaneously using it as one more political ploy, and their announced plan to […]
Okay, I’m not this cynical about Valentine’s Day, and it’s not an entirely made-up holiday like Mother’s Day, or Father’s Day, though all three are based on marketing and guilt.But saying you’re not as cynical as Rat still leaves you with a fair amount of wiggle room, and it makes no difference how you feel […]
Lent is arriving a couple of days late here, but that’s okay, because I’m feeling like the fellow in today’s Pros & Cons.Unlike him, the problem isn’t boredom but rather a lot of unproductive stress. However, it leads to a debilitating sense of anomie that I think can exhibit as either rage or lassitude depending on the […]
Scott Stantis on the results in New Hampshire, and the general demise of Hillary Clinton’s “inevitability.” I love her facial expression, and — issues of whether carriage wheels have tires aside – I’m intrigued by the sickle he chose as the tool of deflation.Communism? Or the more basic symbol of peasantry, from which the communists borrowed it?Either […]
A nice development for Matt Bors’ The Nib.First Look Media today announced that they have partnered with award winning cartoonist Matt Bors on his irreverent comics publication, The Nib. Formerly part of the online platform Medium, The Nib will re-launch this summer through First Look Media as an independent daily publication and online newsletter. Created […]
(Nick Anderson) (Jen Sorensen)No need to stay up late last night except that it wasn’t my first rodeo and, while confident of the final outcome, I wanted to see the later totals.I kind of wish I hadn’t hung around on social media, though, because the vitriol from Clinton supporters was deeply upsetting, and it wasn’t […]
I’m not as moved by the topic of Joe Heller’s cartoon as I am by its excellence on a professional level. To start with, it was a quick turn-around on the one Super Bowl commercial that got significant chatter. Every ad agency works to create a Super Bowl one-and-done spot, to the point where the last several […]
A “production error” in yesterday’s funny pages placed Mark Parisi’s Off the Mark inside Stephan Pastis’s Pearls Before Swine in a number of newspapers. The full scope of the glitch is unknown at this point, but readers on a Pearls Before Swine fan page listed some of the newspapers affected which reportedly include:Los Angeles Times […]
Tom Toles explains the Democratic race in four panels.I’ve seen purists and True Believers in both camps, and I am trying very hard to believe they are at the extreme edge and that the bulk of both Bernie and Hillary supporters will hold their noses and vote if their chosen candidate doesn’t get the nod.It […]
From the National Cartoonist Society website:On January 23, the National Cartoonists Society awarded Mell Lazarus, cartoonist of the long-running comic strip Momma, with the NCS Medal of Honor in Los Angeles, California. The Medal of Honor was created in 2015 to honor past Reuben Award winners with recognition for their lifetime contributions to the cartooning […]
Kal Kallaugher’s humorous-but-thoughtful cartoon on the issue of brain injuries in football stands out from a number of bad cartoons on the topic, because it suggests that (A) he’s not opposed to sports overall and (B) he was actually aware of the issue before the Will Smith movie, “Concussion,” was released at Christmas. (As was Mike […]
From Economic Times:LOS ANGELES: Linus Maurer, a cartoonist and illustrator whose old friend and colleague Charles M. Schulz borrowed his first name for Charlie Brown’s blanket-wielding best friend Linus in his ” Peanuts” comic strip and cartoons, has died at age 90. Maurer died Jan. 29 in Sonoma, California, his longtime partner Mary Jo Starsiak […]
Deflocked touches on a new lesson I’ve just had. As mentioned before, I’m currently at the Colorado Chapter of the International Reading Association conference in Denver, which is a massive event drawing teachers from well beyond Colorado itself.Among the benefits of hanging out with teachers this year is the discovery that there are now cell phones for […]
I noticed The Peanuts Movie was listed as being available for streaming on February 12 on Apple iTunes. That date is significant as the anniversary of the passing of Charles Schulz 16 years ago. The video also becomes available on Amazon instant streaming on that date. For those of you wanting to buy the DVD or Blu-ray, […]