Finally, a cartoonist sensibly captures the economic problems of the European Union.Petar Pismestrovic avoids prescription in favor of description, which I think is wise in that most cartoonists don’t know very much about macroeconomics and so just end up parroting a party line about austerity or the need for spending or whatever the objects of […]
Rhymes With Orange is in contention for CSOTD so often that I’m kind of disappointed today was such a landslide.This is a funny, insightful and affectionate little salute to fathers and I wish it had been a tougher choice, because it wouldn’t have changed the outcome.Father’s Day cartoons, by and large, are treated like an […]
Some places currently worth hanging out …I’ve praised Scott Stantis several times for proving that a conservative can be funny, a point not convincingly made since Jeff MacNelly died. But if you haven’t been paying attention to Prickly City, this would be a good time to tune in.Kevin, the Lost Bunny of the Apocalypse, is […]
My sons and I have talked football since they were old enough to talk about anything at all, but my younger and I found a new subject area the other day, and Drew Sheneman’s cartoon pretty much captures it.I love football. People who think it’s just a bunch of really big guys knocking hell out […]
Speed Bump raises some interesting issues and disturbing images today.We have to start with the admission that this comic has already gone way over the “I should really just relax” line. Which is what makes it funny.But, as long as we’re ignoring that excellent advice, Superman’s biological functions are problematic, because, while he is invulnerable, […]
Liza Donnelly’s brief-and-eloquent reflection on the upcoming commercial holiday and the roles of dads and moms comes at a particularly interesting time.I’ve been visiting my son and his family. His wife has just completed her first year as a professor at a well-respected liberal arts college while he has been substitute teaching and staying home […]
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The Team Cul de Sac auction ended last night, raising a total of $47,107, including the auction house’s 19.5% buyers’ premiums, which, by my never-reliable calculations nets out to about $38,000 going to the Michael J. Fox Foundation.Not surprisingly, the portrait of Petey by Bill Watterson was the top item, leaping at the end to […]
I’m not sure this is the term that will stick, but Bizarro is certainly on the right track.I flew this week for the first time in a year, and it gave me a chance to see the extent to which the smartphone has gone from early-adaptor gadget to business-person necessity to mainstream narcotic.Based on what […]
I’m pretty sure I know Steve Sack’s point here, but I find the cartoon a more eloquent statement of the dilemma than a justification for the use of drones.The war of insurgency was not the invention, or exclusive provence, of Ho Chi Minh. Ahmed Ben Bella was orchestrating a similar decentralized opposition to French rule […]
Zits is an odd mix of old-line jokes about messy bedrooms and giant backpacks and new gags reflecting how young people actually live.Obviously, I wouldn’t be featuring a messy bedroom gag here, which is not to say that kids today clean up their rooms. Some do, some don’t, but it’s not exactly a bottomless well […]
Piranha Club, always an excellent source of retro humor, has started a story arc that, like all its really good arcs, will have readers saying, “Okay, I shouldn’t laugh at this …” and then laughing.I’m running both yesterday’s and today’s strip to add a little more context, but here’s what you need to know: Daryl, the […]
I don’t often agree with Ted Rall, but I keep up with his cartoons because of moments like this.I used to have a talk on this very subject that I would deliver to Rotary Clubs and other similar gatherings of potential sponsors for my newspapers-in-education programs, and I’d use the Beatles’ appearance on Ed Sullivan […]
Thank you, Wiley Miller.After the incredible flood of lame, uninformed cartoons about the Facebook IPO, somebody finally points a finger in the right direction.To use a sports analogy, the Facebook IPO has been similar to the drafting of Tim Tebow.Prior to the draft, experts — that is, people who know how the game is played […]
We’ve covered cartoonists who report from the Middle East, from Appalachia, from Congo. Now Jen Sorensen reports from her own backyard with a piece that gains its impact from just how normal and mundane her life is. And, as she notes, unsustainable.(Follow that link to read the rest.)The “Open Letter To The Supreme Court” is, of […]