Politics has been leaking all over the funny pages lately, and today’s Non Sequitur (AMS) is a good example.The anti-mask issue is completely political. Nobody seems to object when they are told they can’t smoke in a particular place, or, at least, they don’t threaten violence or make great speeches about freedom.Acceptance of the link […]
There’s a bit of a pissing match breaking out on social media over purported plagiarism, which I’m not going to be too specific about because it is inconsequential and it would be nice if it died out on its own, with both parties a little embarrassed by the whole thing.Instead, the above will serve as […]
As regular readers surely realize, I much admire Clay Bennett (CTFP)‘s work, and I surely wish I thought he had this one right.But his rosy optimism seems misplaced.There’s this much: Once Joe Biden takes his place in the White House, we will have a large and encouraging change in the tone of leadership, and that, […]
So apparently Trump is bookending Photoshopped pictures of an inaugural crowd that never showed up with Photoshopped pictures of a million protesters who likewise and ain’t that appropriate and while it doesn’t quite close out the fiasco, it’s a good reason to stop obsessing and have some fun.Not that this precludes political cartoons. It just […]
(Historical note: When Gen. Stark said “Live free or die, boys. Death is not the worst of evils,” he was calling for sacrifice, not selfishness.) Stuart Carlson (AMS) offers about as clear a picture of the status quo as you’re apt to find, granted that I only blog once a day and Dear Leader’s moods can […]
I recently realized how much the tumult of the past four years has caused me to focus on politics rather than funnies, so much so that I had to set aside Friday Funnies as an escape.I’m hoping — when we’ve finally won the War of the Presidential Succession — to go back to a greater […]
Carlo Goldoni found the prospect of a fool serving two masters hilarious; Matthew was less impressed with the notion. And at the moment, cartoonists seem to be falling on both sides of the matter, torn between farce and outrage.For my part, I was tempted to leave the whole thing to resolve itself and run an […]
It’s Veteran’s Day, as Michael Ramirez (Creators) points out.Most years on November 11, the comics pages are flooded with little kids saluting tombstones and suchlike, but there weren’t that many this year.From a creative point of view, it’s not much of a loss because they aren’t generally very good and don’t stand out often, one […]
(Non Sequitur — AMS)(Prickly City — AMS)The most unpleasant part of our current situation is that a pair of cartoonists, working from different sides of the political spectrum, could drop such spot-on strips today, despite each working with a substantial lead time.We’re that divided politically, and, more than that, we’ve also divided between people who […]
Morten Morland (London Times) provides a pretty good picture of what Joe Biden is facing. Between things that never happened and things that never should have happened, this isn’t going to be a matter of quietly continuing but of a massive cleanup.The good news is that, having been a vice-president who was genuinely consulted and […]
Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning. — Winston Churchill, Nov 10, 1942Juxtaposition of the Past Four Years(David Rowe, Australian Financial Review, 2016) (David Rowe, Australian Financial Review, 2020)David Rowe bookends the Trump presidency, offering a conclusion to what […]
Kieran Meehan couldn’t have known how funny today’s Pros and Cons (KFS) would be when it hit, or, at least, how timely.We’ve had “news” that someone was caught throwing out ballots, only it turned out he was just discarding a sheet of instructions.And then we had “news” that dead people were voting in Michigan, only […]
Wouldn’t it be nice if they carried signs like this fellow in Macanudo?But we don’t discuss politics on Friday.However, discussing both life and philosophy is permitted and Macanudo (KFS) is often the sort of thing you could spin a whole day from if you slowed down enough.Is a humble-bragger more to be feared than someone […]
Steve Sack (Star-Tribune)‘s portrait of Sleepy Joe is a delightful hurling of the nickname back in the bully’s face, given that there’s little left for Biden to do but sit back and wait for the final count.Though I suppose it’s like that thing they say about ducks being all calm as seen from the surface […]
I don’t normally begin a post with a Tweet — much less two — but the other day Ann Telnaes said on social media that we should come to an agreement about the difference between a meme and a political cartoon.It’s easy, until you think it over.Memes are amateur and political cartoons are professional, but […]