Tom Tomorrow with a chatty but point-on commentary about the health care issue.Speaking of JFK (and isn’t everyone?), he used to quote an aphorism, “success has many fathers, failure is an orphan,” and the piling on over the botched roll-out of a main portion of the Affordable Care Act has certainly been a stunning example […]
Kal Kallaugher confronts a political taboo, and though he does it in the pages of the Economist of London, I haven’t heard very many people in the US criticize Israel as being obstructionist in this process either. There is, of course, the spectre of anyone who criticizes Israel being accused of anti-Semitism, which stems in part […]
Johanna Draper Carlson’s “Comics Worth Reading” currently features a link to a devastatingly insightful review by Chris Sims of the new collection, “Superman: A Celebration of 75 Years,” which sent me back to (A) a conversation I had recently and (B) yesterday’s criticism of modern self-absorption.Start with this bit of child-development psychological whatchamacallit:Certain dirty jokes remain […]
Nothing smells like vict’ry more than napalm in the morningChasing Charlie from his lair so very far away The Chuckle Bros got a chuckle with this, mostly in light of the futile caption. I think they seriously underestimate Broadway’s hunger for overproduced, overpriced, unlikely adaptations.In any case, their timing is excellent, given that Spiderman just closed […]
Pat Oliphant isn’t generally known for sensitivity, but he has come up with one of the few JFK Assassination Anniversary cartoons that seem content to remember the moment.Yes, a fairy tale. But as true as anything else being said, and truer than most of what’s out there.Maybe you had to be there, and fewer than […]
Mike Peters comments on the story of the Canton, Ohio, Wal-Mart whose employees are holding a food drive for each other.Clay Bennett has also weighed in on the topic.The drive, according to the company, was started by “associates” (nobody has “employees” anymore) not for the ongoing needs of their fellow workers, but, rather, to provide […]
I saw this 50th Anniversary coming up several months ago and began to dig the shelter. I knew what was coming: A deluge of goofball, paranoid idiocy, raised to the level of attempts to “answer the questions.”Robert Ariail says it. The eternal flame, as in “flaming and gaping.”I was in eighth grade when Kennedy was […]
Well, back to the real world, but, before saying goodbye Columbus (bet they never heard that one before), some deserving leftovers that didn’t fit in the previous entries but were certainly worthy of mention and may push someone just past the balance point into deciding to come out here.And while I wonder — in the […]
Sunday morning offered tours of the inner workings of the new museum, which we should begin with a little background information, starting with the namesake, Billy Ireland.William Addison Ireland was a legendary staff cartoonist at the Columbus Dispatch, where he worked for his entire career, from 1898 to 1935, becoming a local celebrity and hiring […]
The idea of blogging on-the-spot probably works better when the spot isn’t rather content rich. I think I’ll have more to say about the cartoon arts festival after it’s over and I’m not staying up until midnight in conversations with interesting people.By which I mean this fellow Eddie Campbell, for instance, who currently lives in […]
The Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum at the Ohio State University kicked off its triennial festival of cartoon arts Friday with a ribbon cutting at the new facility which should be on any cartoon fan’s travel plans. Columbus isn’t a place you’re likely to end up by happenstance, but it’s handy to a lot […]
Gonna look today at a couple of books that will be part of my holiday shopping, starting with this inspiring combination of nutritional musings and cartoons about food.”Eat Drink Vote” is a collaboration between nutritionist Marion Nestle and about 40 cartoonists under the aegis of the Cartoonist Group, with more than 250 cartoons illustrating her […]
I really like today’s Deflocked for no particular reason except that it’s cynical and funny and true, despite having not quite plugged all the gaps.That is, I suspect some readers would argue that Thanksgiving also celebrates our bloodthirsty need to possess things, but I’d say the charge, while certainly not baseless, is a bit misplaced. Let’s […]
It took me a little while to comprehend my dislike of a relatively new format, the animated comic strip, but, once I found the simile, it fell into place: If we’re sitting around reading the paper and you come across a comic strip you think is worth reading, I want you to pass the paper over, […]
Jim Morin’s cartoon amuses me, but it also depresses me.We’re at a point where negativity is gaining an edge, and health care is only a portion of the issue.Thing is, he’s absolutely right. But … well, yeah, he’s right, and what the hell difference is it going to make?I mean, if talk radio hosts and […]