First, this note: Editorial cartoonists should submit their “clown in a storm sewer” cartoons by Sunday night. A few of you have not yet turned yours in and there will be fines for late additions. Baby Blues reminds me that, yes, we did have this game when my boys were small, and it was fun and, […]
For the 40th anniversary of his murder in police custody, Dr. Jack & Curtis remember Steve Biko with a quote that, as they say, remains sadly relevant today, and certainly not just in South Africa.One of the “nice” things about the struggle against apartheid was that, particularly with the death of Biko and some other […]
Retail tries to ruin my mood, but the coffeeshop down the road already has their pumpkin-spice latte sign out, so my mood was pre-ruined for the season.I really like pumpkin pie. I like sweet potato pie more, because it tends to have more texture, but it’s also considerably more elusive, I guess because it’s a […]
As I write this, Irma is working her way through the South and Jose is brewing and Katia is out there and there’s probably no good time to talk about hurricanes, unless you wait until after the season ends.At which point we won’t care anymore and we’ll go back to talking about the next Bachelor […]
Pat Bagley on the continued in-fighting of the Democrats, as the Republicans look on.Not to suggest that the Republicans aren’t going through their own moment of self-destruction, and you can fault Bagley for the suggestion that they’re entirely in control of their own future. But, so far, they’re keeping most of their dirty laundry out […]
(Adam@Home) (Pajama Diaries)We’ll start with a Juxtaposition of My Life, or, at least, what my life would be like if I had responsibilities beyond having a dog.I’m not constantly working, but, like Adam, I don’t have an escape from being “at work” and I have to admit that, even when I had an office over […]
Yeah, I know, it’s not a cartoon. It’s a movie poster. We’ll get to the cartoons.But last night my granddaughter and I watched “The Candidate,” which was made in 1972, the year her father was born. She’s about to turn 21 and has volunteered in campaigns since high school, so was an excellent audience for […]
I get a kick out of having a Juxtaposition come up on the page intact, and it just happens that Off The Mark comes just before Lola on my GoComics page. Today the two of them pretty much encapsulate my current feelings about social media.Facebook, mind you, moreso than Twitter, which is probably because I […]
As I expected, there have been a lot of DACA cartoons landing in the past 24 hours, though there are also a lot of cartoons about the approaching hurricane, which make the courageous, controversial editorial point “Here comes a hurricane.” David Horsey gets to represent all the Dream/Nightmare cartoons because he puts it in such stark, […]
(Gary Varvel) (Bob Gorrell)These two conservatives were fast out of the gate with a pair of cartoons that seem to go deeper into the DACA issue than the more liberal response so far, much of which has been plays on “dreams” and “nightmares.”Pointing out that Dreamers are in a tough spot is like pointing out […]
Kal Kallaugher looks ahead to the president’s tax reform efforts, which may turn out to be Trump’s last chance to keep a campaign promise.(We will now take a short break while you marvel over the facial expressions in each panel.)I suppose “keeping promises” is an outdated 20th century concept. Our hyperconnected, centerless world makes it easy to […]
For those of us in the gig economy, all a “holiday” means is that the post office is closed.And most of today’s strips either ignore the holiday, do some Dad-at-the-grill gags or — the largest percentage — focus on Back to School.But David Fitzsimmons notes that Labor Day should be more than a final cookout, […]
Sherman’s Lagoon sets the mood for today.Or, rather, explains the mood, because I think that swordfish would be happier on Facebook, where his antisocial instincts would be appreciated.I need a break from Facebook.It’s like the kid who keeps hitting himself on the head with a hammer because it feels so good when he stops. Unless […]
Candorville leads off what could be a very depressing day if I let it.I’m nearly ready to take a break from Facebook, because the place is far more full of feuds than conversations, and I get tired of pissing into the wind.For example, we’re got another social media lynch mob forming over that unjustifiable, boneheaded, […]
I didn’t use this Matt Wuerker cartoon the other day, but not because I thought it was unfair.Wuerker has been through a ghastly, unfair gauntlet of on-line and media pile-on bullying, an explosive wave of toxic stupidity that should appall decent folks, if there are any left.I didn’t do all the digging required to find […]