There have been a number of cartoons about the Republicans — or at least some Republicans — repositioning themselves in response to the election debacle, and, in recent days, some specifically about rejecting Grover Norquist and the raise-no-taxes pledge, but they have mostly seemed listless and formulaic. Now comes Rob Rogers with a fairly obvious but […]
Amidst the predictable jokes about leftovers, and the equally predictable tee-hee-hee’s over Black Friday shopping (Anyone going for the Trudy Trifecta? “Out at midnight, overdrew the checking account, crumpled the fender pulling into the garage afterwards”? Nobody? Maybe next year!) , some cartoonists have serious comments to make. Like a lot of newspaper-based editorial cartoonists, Derf […]
Burkina Faso’s Damien Glez salutes a satiric take on “poverty porn” that has gone viral among those who care about Africa or about assistance to the Third World in general. Poverty Porn is the use of heart-tugging images to excite (and that’s the right word) compassion in potential donors. The origin of the phrase itself is a […]
Today’s Zits scores in large part for its delightful synchronicity with yesterday’s “Leave it to Beaver” spoof. It so happens that my rant on the misappropriation of the show to symbolize a brain-dead era is not my only oh-god-here-he-goes-again Andy-Rooney-style use of “The Cleaver Family As Society Bellwether.”I have an entirely other rant about clothing and […]
Tom the Dancing Bug does a nice takedown on Bill O’Reilly’s transparent outing of the real objections to Obama’s re-election: That it signifies the end of the “white establishment” (his words) as the guardians of “traditional America.”And Bolling only had to use the tool that O’Reilly had handed him, which was an allusion to the […]
I hope all my American readers are enjoying a day off from work and some time with family, and, if it isn’t Thanksgiving where you live, please remember that every day is a good day to enjoy a few brews with your nearest and dearest.This classic, claiming to be “Visiting The Grandparents,” by William Elder, […]
Pardon My Planet on what kids really need to learn to be successful in the workforce: The difference between what the boss says and what the boss wants. I wish this cartoon wasn’t funny, but it is.In fact, it made me think of a column I wrote nearly 20 years ago, and, when I went […]
Matt Bors on the lack of substance in American news coverage, and the lack of background with which we face the world.I was streaming an Eddie Izzard concert the other day and was struck by a very funny throwaway line. He was saying something or other about the world and paused to interject, “You do […]
A few days ago, I blogged about conservative cartoonists who were taking a pragmatic and sensible approach to the “secession” movement.Here’s an even more fundamentally sound look at current politics, from Bob Gorrell, who is usually something of a bomb-thrower.I think it’s a terrific adaptation, and that’s aside from whatever his actual recommendation may be […]
In today’s Non Sequitur, Wiley Miller manages to combine a nagging annoyance with a serious problem. One of the basic tools in the cartoonist’s bag of tricks, well-applied.I cannot begin to express how sick I am of hearing about chocolate.And bacon.And zombies.But at least nobody claims to have found health benefits in bacon or zombies.Now, […]
Normally, once I point out an interesting arc, that’s it. Readers follow it if they want to, or they don’t, and I move on.But today’s Pooch Cafe cracked me up, so we’re gonna talk about this arc some more. Sue me. In case you think Paul Gilligan is just being silly, let me tell you that […]
Glenn McCoy is one of those conservatives whom I like when he’s not being political — the Duplex is often featured here — but whose politics make me swallow hard and move on.Not today, and he’s not the only conservative cartoonist who seems to be taking a more insightful view of the supposed secession movement […]
This was a really good day for comics, starting with the latest installment of a Doonesbury arc about Walden College becoming a for-profit school. The fact that there already is a for-profit Walden University is, well, something for someone else to sort out, because Trudeau had the name first, though, granted, not by much.But I like the idea of for-profit […]
A good editor can be your best friend. A good editor helps you get your point across and will not only help you make that point more clearly but can help you avoid getting tangled up in counter-productive side issues.A bad editor can take the joy and panache out of work that needs both to […]
Joe Heller on the keen sense of priorities at work in the halls of Congress.I don’t get all the Petraeus stuff. I mean, I get it in terms of how, when your indiscretions are this indiscreet, you can’t be Head Spook anymore. What I don’t get is all the piling on, and the moonbat conspiracy […]