I’ve updated this list of cartoons, cartoonists and their Patreon and other support pages. You don’t have to support them all, of course, but, if you like the medium, you should choose some favorites and back them up!********************** A fellow named Rickey Scott got in touch with me at CSotD and offered to compile a […]
Stuart Carlson (AMS) picks up on a twisted saying that I’ve just noticed entering the conversation, and which we need to nip in the bud.It’s different than my oft-raged-upon misuse of “rats leaving a sinking ship,” of which I spotted two examples today, both by cartoonists I greatly admire. As noted before, there is some […]
We’re entering the holiday season, which is normal, but still in lockdown mode, which, of course, is not, and Joe Heller (AMS) remarks on a year that has somehow managed to have troughs without peaks.Which is, of course, ridiculous: You can’t have troughs without peaks. It’s just that the troughs seemed very low and the […]
So Joe Biden was playing with one of his German shepherds and managed to break a small bone in his foot, which would be small potatoes if it were one of us, but matters because he is (whether or not you accept the fact) the President-elect of These United States.And also because we are all […]
As today’s Non Sequitur (AMS) points out, there isn’t any going back to normal anymore.To start with, as seen here, if you relax all the rules because the curve has peaked and is receding, you will guarantee that the curve has not peaked after all. Unless you are in a church or synagogue, in which […]
This Madam & Eve (Ind) isn’t the first I knew that Black Friday sales have become a global phenomenon, but it struck me that they’re not only in places like South Africa and Australia, but so well-known that you can reference them in puns.Which is bizarre, given that Black Friday is the Friday after American […]
With so many comics about Thanksgiving leftovers, it seems okay to feature a Thanksgiving leftover from the editorial page, with praise for Signe Wilkinson (Phil Daily News) for acknowledging that (as noted here previously) the Pilgrims were, indeed, “known superspreaders” by the time of that feast.In her commentary on the cartoon, she writes, “As we […]
Thank you, Monty (AMS), that will be all for now.Today marks the end of cartoons in which turkeys pretend to be other kinds of birds and brings us to Beartrap in the Fireplace season. It’s possible to do good holiday cartoons, as Edison Lee (KRP) demonstrates, with a Black Friday gag that marks the day with […]
More history (or nostalgia, depending on your age) than commentary today. These are the cartoons you’d have seen in your papers a half century ago, specifically on November 26, 1970, which was Thanksgiving that year, too.Kent State was a few months in the past, the Draft Lottery a few weeks in the future. The big […]
Anne Morse Hambrock (Ind) asks a troubling question in “Anne and God,” one that we should all ponder.Okay, that was long enough.Thing is, once something is established as a holiday dish, it doesn’t matter what it tastes like or how it’s made.Many a young bride (well, one I know of) has made green bean casserole […]
A whole lot of cartoons just went obsolete, including this one by Mike Luckovich (AJC). But others spring up to take their place, and this Pat Byrnes (Cagle) piece makes a lovely companion piece to Luckovich’s earlier cartoon, the pair, taken together, offering a reasonable perspective on the past several weeks.Even yesterday’s concession was half-hearted at […]
There’s not much new going on in the political realm, so I thought I’d clean up a few things that either could have run this past Friday but didn’t, or that won’t wait until the next.In his weekly wrap-up blog, Wayno noted that he could have put a sash on the traditional Old Year figure […]
Editor’s Note: I brought “My Cousin Vinny” into the conversation two weeks before Rudy did, and hardly in the same context:Poor Fred Gwynne was a decent judge stuck between nitwits from both sides of the cultural divide, with (spoiler alert!) the outcome decided by a blue-collar city girl who knew an awful lot about things […]
At first glance, Rob Rogers (Ind)’s cartoon sparked a “Yes, I know,” response, because we’ve all watched the GOP spinelessly acquiesce to Dear Leader’s assault on the electoral system.But his caption adds a disturbing element, at least for those of us who remember the days when we chose to believe that the mass of Germans […]
We’ve talked a lot about how politics have been sneaking over onto the funny pages, but now the funny stuff is sneaking over onto the editorial pages, as witness this K Chronicles (Daily Kos).The punchline particularly put me on the floor since, as I think I’ve mentioned, Trump began his reign with a lie about […]