Italian cartoonist Paolo Lombardi comments on the impact of social media on the efforts of Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan to control reporting on the protests there.According to a Globe & Mail article linked at Cartoon Movement, Erdogan said, “Now we have a menace that is called Twitter … The best examples of lies can be found […]
Sally Forth has been getting downright domestic these days, what with Sally’s sister about to whelp and Sally not about to let things go, while, meanwhile, daughter Hilary is sorting out some middle-school BFF drama. Fortunately, we can always count on Ted to remain detached. Not necessarily in a helpful way, but detached nonetheless.I’m giving […]
Mr. Fitz doesn’t quite get out of the “insider” niche enough for wide appeal, but I get the sense that it has a good following among teachers, and that’s the advantage of a webcomic: It doesn’t rely on geographic distribution but can pick up a widely scattered audience. I really liked Mark Pett’s Mr. Lowe, […]
One of the techniques they suggest in teacher school is to structure your lesson plans to allow time for “guided practice,” which means giving the kids 10 minutes or so at the end of class time to start their homework. That way, if they get hung up on something basic to the task, they can […]
Been there, Marla.Actually, been on both ends. I had one boss at a place where we had a change in ownership and top management. My boss and I worked wonderfully well together. His new boss and I really disliked each other. It was only a matter of time, and I don’t think it could have […]
I’ll be the first to admit that I love dumb jokes. And, when it comes to dumb jokes, Joe Martin is the champ, with a lineup of strips in which stupid reigns supreme and Willy reigns above all. Willy & Ethel make the misadventures of the Kramdens look like “Dynasty,” and have been doing so […]
Now, freshly returned from the Reubens where it was named “Best Newspaper Panel,” Rhymes with Orange!Okay, this one was completed well before the convention, but it cracked me up, and I promptly began probably reading way too much into it.To start at the most superficial level of the gag, I’ve tried on-line dating and, when […]
Last week I was walking past a local rec center and saw that the flag was at half-mast. I searched my brain but couldn’t come up with a reason, but someone was just coming out and so I asked. He didn’t know either and I thought about going in and asking the people at the […]
The Reubens were last night, and, while I don’t think much of awards in general, I do like the idea of people getting together, particularly people who tend to otherwise work in well-lighted garrets, in isolation from anyone who does what they do.And, while even a Pulitzer won’t protect you from the beancounters these days […]
This time of year brings on a flood of “grads without jobs” cartoons. Graduation is one of those must-draw occasions, I suppose, but “grads without jobs” cartoons are like the “bear trap in the fireplace” cartoons that come out every Christmas.Seen it. What else ya got?I like Liza Donnelly’s take, in part because it’s not […]
Baby Blues earns its popularity by mirroring parental experience, which makes sense when you trace the strip back to its roots. It was, as noted in this interview, based on the chaos in Rick Kirkman’s life as a young father.At the time I spoke with Baby Blues creators Kirkman and (Jerry) Scott, it had been […]
Damien Glez addresses the poaching crisis in Africa. For the benefit of those who never learned où est la bibliothèque, the elephant is consulting a plastic surgeon and asking to be made to look like a hippopotamus.I like everything Glez does, even when I have no idea who the people he’s drawing are or what the […]
Not just “breaking with format” today but actually violating the Prime Directive. I don’t like these cartoons, and some of them are by cartoonists I like a lot. But c’mon, man.Look, I ran an early one by Pat Oliphant. Even then (a week ago) I said the analogy was strained, and further developments have made […]
Matt Bors has got it.But the thing is, I don’t mind when the lunatic fringe responds to something in a lunatic manner. That comes with the territory.I object, however, to sloppy, incomplete reporting feeding into their delusions of persecution. They’ve got people within their own organizations to do that, thank you.Yet we keep hearing on […]
I had to move most of what I own last week so that the electricians could rewire the apartment. There were some inconveniences, but also some benefits, chief among them being finding things I hadn’t seen in quite awhile, and high on that list was a collection of Charles Addams cartoons which my father gave […]