Normally, a hurricane is a disaster not only for those it impacts, but for editorial cartooning as well: It’s one of those events, like the death of a celebrity or, for that matter, a kerfuffle at a tennis match, which makes everyone pick up their pens and say nothing.However, these are not normal times, and […]
This is a single panel from Bob Eckstein’s “A Sketchbook of the Writer’s Digest Annual Conference,” in the current New Yorker, and you should go read that if you want the rest of this to make sense. (Your choice, of course.)Eckstein’s piece is about fiction writing and book publishing, but it applies to a wider […]
There’s a lot going on today, much of which does not reflect well on civilization.My Kindle edition of Bob Woodward’s “Fear” was delivered at midnight, but, for the moment, I have only the Washington Post coverage of the other day and a few other early reviews to go on.However, I suspect there will be some […]
Okay, I recognize the cartoon character in this one, and I’m inclined to agree with Bill Day that the damage done is pretty negligible.However, a lot of that is due to the overlap with the revelations in Bob Woodward’s book, which comes out tomorrow but was excerpted and discussed in the Washington Post the day […]
I wasn’t sure where to start today, but David Horsey may come the closest to my position.I’m not quite with Bob Englehart, in proclaiming the unknown writer as a hero, because, as others have suggested, there’s an element of complicity in staying on the team, even if you’re helping to thwart the President’s most outrageous […]
Two thoughtful blog posts about the late Mort Walker coincide with King Features’ decision to finally shut down a pair of moribund old strips, Henry and Hazel, as reported elsewhere at DailyCartoonist.Calvin has a point about the brutal mistreatment of comic strips by newspapers, though, as I’ve said before, if you’re reading this on a […]
Dogs of C Kennel raises several existential questions, though it doesn’t actually touch on the question of when “existential” became a thing.All of a sudden, I’m seeing all sorts of people cite such-and-such as an existential threat to their existence, which reminds me of when the Watergate hearings got everyone saying “at that point in […]
I could probably just post Tom Toles‘ cartoon and sign off for the day. For all the Sturm und Drang of the hearings, this is pretty much it.I knew a girl in college who had gone to a boarding school where her roommate was the daughter of a Mafia figure. (She told me this story […]
Let’s start with the obvious, because sometimes pointing out the obvious is the best you can do. Dave Granlund points out that Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination is getting different treatment from the Republican majority than Merritt Garland’s nomination received. Ditto with Matt Wuerker‘s commentary, which does not break any new ground or display any unexpected insight but […]
Let’s start with David Fitzsimmons‘ panel today, because, while he’s not the first to point out that Evangelicals are willing to overlook the entire New Testament and substantial portions of the Old, his depiction of Trump brought something to mind.When I was younger, and not a whole lot younger, I was always bothered by Exodus […]
I don’t think you could have a better Labor Day commentary than this Clay Bennett cartoon.It could have run just about any time in the past year and a half, because Trump repeatedly takes credit for things that haven’t happened or that he had nothing to do with.But Trump has been particularly vocal lately in […]
Non Sequitur leads us off with this concise history of Labor Day and how it almost worked and then pretty much fell apart, though he applies the principle that history is written by the victors, so it seems, on the surface, to have a happy ending.I blame George Westinghouse, the son of a bitch who […]
One of these women is turning 94 today and the other is my great-granddaughter and thus her great-great-grandaughter.So, in honor of the occasion, here are some cartoons my grandfather might have read in the newspaper when he wasn’t pacing the floor on September 1, 1924, which is what expectant fathers did in those days.(Editor’s note: […]
Amid the flood of Back-to-School cartoons that didn’t make me laugh, Baby Blues evokes a memory of parenting that did.Granted, it wasn’t over math, since my boys were both better at math than I was and the teaching of math is far superior than it was in my day. Those factors are probably related, but […]
xkcd fires back on behalf everyone comfortable enough with the language to use it intelligently, by which I mean to communicate an idea beyond “I’ve memorized these rules.”One of my most-cited sites is known informally as “Everyone Loves Their Jane Austen,” though it’s listed on search engines as “Singular “their” in Jane Austen and elsewhere: […]