I suppose that, in a circular argument, it doesn’t much matter where you start, but let’s jump into today’s discussion with this Jeff Stahler piece, which asks an important question.People keep saying, well, we’ll take them off the street and put them in a museum.Without answering the question, “A museum of what??”Most local history museums […]
I’m not in the mood for politics today, and, fortunately, some strip artists put up fine work, which works out nicely and so Friday Funnies come on a Tuesday this week. But, before that, politics are pretty funny at the moment, too, and Matt Wuerker‘s commentary on John Bolton’s book provides a moment to reflect on […]
Michael Ramirez offers a challenging commentary on the toppling of statues, and, normally, I wouldn’t feature a cartoon with specific, glaring errors, but this one is worth addressing.The Buddhas were not historic but religious statues, while the destruction of Nimrud was also based on religious differences: Extremist Islamists wanting to wipe out not just modern […]
Who’s zooming who?There are two parts to this thing that happened, or didn’t, last night.The first is that Zoomers pranked the Diaper Don into thinking he had a million requests for tickets for his Tulsa rally, most of which actually came from people with no intention of attending his party.Best part is that by keeping […]
Cartooning from across the ocean, Irish Times wag Martyn Turner sets the stage for today’s posting and tonight’s rally.The inverted red triangles — signs of neo-Nazi sympathy that recently got some Trump Facebook postings banned — are a nice touch.The T-shirt reading “White Lives Matter Most” is also relevant, particularly in light of the way […]
I woke up this morning and discovered that the new horror on social media was that, while small-business owners were describing their experiences during the lockdown, Dear Leader was goofing on his phone and paying no attention.Which you can see here but is it really that much of a shock?Granted we didn’t have smartphones back […]
I’m kind of sorry I used up Stephen Dedalus’s line from “Ulysses,” “History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake” in a headline a few weeks ago, because here’s Matt Wuerker painting Uncle Sam as a reluctant dreamer awakening to a new reality.Then again, Joyce seems to have been above the awakening […]
(RJ Matson)(Nick Anderson)Matson and Anderson use two popular elements of Dear Leader’s West Point speech to note the impact of his slipping polls. (Ed Hall) (Steve Sack)Hall and Sack skip the metaphor and simply point out the way the shoe is suddenly on the other foot, as Trump becomes vulnerable to the same schoolyard bullying he has […]
Steve Sack gets the lead-off today because he nailed the target amid a forest of lukewarm rainbows.It’s all well and good to draw a rainbow flag or show the Supreme Court building or the nation or whatever swathed in rainbows, but Sack makes two critical points:First, by using Justice hugging that rainbow flag, he emphasizes […]
Joy of Tech is pretty firmly on record as not respecting either Facebook or Twitter, but here they acknowledge not just the general scumminess but the addictive nature of unbridled social media.I’m admittedly on the record as recognizing my own need for such places to both collect material for my writing and to promote the […]
Having railed against inaccurate history the other day, let’s relax a bit and note humor that relies on either not knowing much about the topic or not caring about it.If you’re going to read comics at all, you have to have a well-developed willingness to suspend disbelief, not only to accept talking animals but to […]
Bob Moran and I appear to be on opposite sides of the “tearing down statues” issue, but his commentary opens the question to a potentially fruitful discussion.The matter is more complicated in Britain not simply because they have more history to process but because, over here, we’ve focused on a relatively straight-forward false-history concocted in […]
A slight departure from Friday Funnies, but, while Joe Heller is a political cartoonist, this one is more about life itsownself.I was never particularly thrilled with school, but it was like a job that pays reasonably well and doesn’t suck.Except a few years when it did: If you got a toxic teacher in grade school, […]
Ann Telnaes has a bit of fun with Republican sewer rats who pretend ignorance of Dear Leader’s increasingly unhinged Tweets, notably his delusional, imbecilic repeating of an insane conspiracy theory from OANN, his favorite Russian-connected propaganda outlet.Innocent ignorance is easy. Intentional ignorance is beginning to take some real effort. Particularly when Presidential paranoid delusions become as […]
(Kevin Siers)(Clay Jones)Here is a Juxtaposition that might have been two panels of the same cartoon: “Defund the Police” is a lousy slogan that plays into Republican hands.It’s a great idea, to shift funding in order to ease the burden on police and let them focus on actual law enforcement while other public institutions take […]