There’s a raft of stupid out there, as noted in today’s Mt. Pleasant (Tribune) and, yes, the only thing more annoying than unmitigated nonsense is people who feel superior for believing it.Appropriately, there’s a new study out that shows that the people who pride themselves on being able to spot fake news are the most […]
Greg Kearney offers this alternative to weeping eagles and little kids solemnly saluting. I like it.You can readily find those saluting children and weeping eagles on your own, but I’m going to expand upon Kearney’s theme of remembrance. I’ll take a walk to visit my friend Jacob Jackson today, in the cemetery about a block away.The […]
According to this Steve Kelley (Creators) cartoon, vaccinated people who wear masks are showing off how caring and thoughtful they are.I got into a conversation about “Virtue Signaling” and “Social Justice Warriors” the other day, with someone who felt it was wrong to suggest that some people are showing off. Well, some people are showing […]
I’ll save the other Memorial Day cartoons for later, but Ed Hall provides a fitting starting point for looking at yesterday’s vote, in which the GOP spared us the painful burden of proving that there was no insurrection, that it was, in fact, BLM and Antifa crisis actors pretending to be Trump supporters peacefully behaving […]
The AAEC alerted members to an exhibit of Pat Oliphant cartoons at the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge the other day.I’d already known about it, but the hassles of traveling in the pandemic had let me procrastinate, so I jumped in the car yesterday and drove down to catch the second-to-the-last day.The museum isn’t huge […]
Walt Handelsman (AMS) has what appears to be the best take on the revelation that the coronavirus is more likely to have escaped from a laboratory than, as the Chinese government had originally contended, been a spontaneous crossover from China’s bushmeat markets.It’s possible that the virus was developed in the lab. It’s also possible that […]
Before we get into the Juxtapositions, a couple of cartoons that pinged me on a personal level.Macanudo (KFS) hits on a particular favorite, because we read “Great Expectations” in junior high and I didn’t get it, except, wow, a surprise ending.But, yes, I can put a peg in the ground to mark who I was […]
Being ADD is either a disability or a great advantage, depending on severity and other talents. A lot of ADD people pop up in emergency services, because they do their best work, as someone put it, “when the world is moving at my pace.”It’s also a potential benefit for newspaper reporters because the combination of […]
Rising to a point of personal privilege, I’m dealing today with Jeff Danziger’s memoir of his time in Vietnam despite the one disappointment, that it is only minimally illustrated by one of my favorite political cartoonists.I have been spoiled by the in-depth WWII artwork featured in “Yank, the Army Weekly,” but those illustrators were sent […]
Ward Sutton admits he drew this some time ago and it languished in the files at the NYTimes Review of Books until this week, but even if the concept is evergreen, I’d call the application of it now timely.Not that I look to the NYTimes for intelligent analysis of graphic commentary. I don’t boycott the […]
We’ll end the week with a bit of politics, as Gary Clement (Cartoon Arts) hits with one of the first cartoons to shift from war to cease-fire in the Middle East.I found it particularly interesting because I stumbled onto the press conference the White House scheduled with the President Biden and South Korean President Moon […]
If mockery could solve our problems, we’d have no problems at all. And then the political cartoonists would all be out of business.I suppose this Rob Rogers piece won’t change the minds of the nincompoops who nod along with Rep. Andrew Clyde’s claim that the January 6 rioters were simply a group of peaceful tourists.But […]
Edison Lee (KFS) doesn’t say everything I’ve been thinking about this, but he says enough.One of the things popping up on my social media feed again lately has been calls for term limits.We’ve got term limits. They’re called “elections.”If they don’t work, the answer is in this comic strip, because Congressmembers spend way too much […]
Ann Telnaes is hardly the only cartoonist to show people — particularly Republican politicians — wearing their covid masks over their eyes, but she does some of the best caricatures in the business and keeps up with Who’s Who in Washington.And she doesn’t insult your intelligence with labels. She assumes you keep up with the […]
Let me start the day by declaring that I don’t like most of these cartoons very much, but it’s not my job to like cartoons.Ed Hall’s take offers a good starting point, however, and it’s also not his job to be liked.This is a play on sentiment, dead children being an obvious tug at the […]