Edison Lee takes on a nearly impossible challenge: Coming up with a toy that is more ridiculous and tasteless than what’s already out there.I’m so old. (How old are you?)I’m so old that I can remember when Children’s Television Workshop was about education. Well, I guess it still is.Behold Elmo’s Cell Phone, doing for real […]
Let’s go back 33 years, with this Jim Mazzotta commentary on the attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan.John Hinckley was not a massacre shooter, but he operated in something of the same arena: Attempting a grand public gesture, at which, as Mazzotta’s cartoon suggests, he succeeded.He only wanted to attract the attention of one person, but that […]
A modest proposalI think cartoonists should get to take Memorial Day off, mostly because it would be so simple to arrange.Each year, one cartoonist would be chosen to do a cartoon of a small child saluting a gravestone, all the papers could run it, and everyone else could kick back and eat barbecue.I mean, it […]
Monty strikes at a male obsession appropriate for a three-day weekend. After a couple days of not having to shave, the question comes up of maybe growing some facial hair.Which, by the way, doesn’t relieve you of the need to shave, since nobody’s face grows hair only in the mustache/beard regions.You still have to shave […]
I had planned to link this morning to whoever filed a full report from last night’s NCS Awards Dinner before turning in, but all I’m finding is Twitter updates.So, having flipped the multi-sided coin, I’ll send you to Alan Gardner’s feed for the full listing plus 144-character commentary.I’m sure there will be more complete coverage […]
Okay, granted, “high” would be a bad idea. We all know “high” would be a bad idea.But maybe if you set it on “low.”Baby Blues plays on a spectrum of issues with this simple gag, because there’s substantial scholarship to indicate that kids benefit from their father’s horseplay. Not sure suspending the baby from a ceiling […]
It’s kind of flattering to see my numbers take a small but noticeable dip during the Reubens, which are going on in San Diego as we speak. I guess.The flattery part, I mean. I’m quite certain that the cartoonists are gathering. And for those of us who can’t be there, Ruben Bolling has profiled some […]
Darrin Bell isn’t the first cartoonist to address the VA delay issues, but his take is admirable for a couple of reasons besides the graphic chops.One is that “death” here is somewhat metaphorical, and while the media jury has already delivered its verdict, the trial on that is still in progress.That someone in Stage 4 […]
Bob Englehart with a take on the Chinese corporate espionage case that stands out not only because he makes a good point but because he fails to make a bad one.The Prime Directive here being that we praise the good stuff rather than ripping on the not-so-good, I had despaired of saying anything about the […]
What better, on the day after my blogging site goes down, than this delightful Jen Sorensen rant about Adobe’s toxic lock on graphics and layout?Not only does it continue the theme of our vulnerability to other people’s technical problems, but continues the insights into inner workings. (If you missed yesterday’s posting, please scroll down — […]
I’m just on the point (fingers crossed/wood knocked upon) of having a client sign off on a project that has been a lot of fun, a 14-chapter children’s historical fiction serial about a young fellow going off from Lachine, Quebec, into the high country as a voyageur in 1800.Collaborating artist for the project has been […]
(Freshly Squeezed)There was a joke going around the Soviet Union, back when such a place existed, about an attempt by the leader to burnish the image of the central government.I’m sure the role of leader in the joke was as quickly re-cast to remain current as the role itself was recast in reality, as that […]
One of the occasional features of “Tom the Dancing Bug” has been Super-Fun-Pak Comix, a dadaist piece in which Ruben Bolling mocks really drab, spiritless comics.Now Super-Fun-Pak Comix (that’s a different link) is a feature of its own on the GoComics site, presenting one drab, spiritless bit of mockery at a time.At a time when […]
There are a lot of cartoons about climate-change deniers around at the moment, but I’m more pleased to see Keith Knight go after the race-problem deniers, and do it in a way that is pointed and unambiguous, but also funny.Not everyone can pull that combination off.There was a story on an NPR blog the other […]
(Sally Forth) (Heart of the City)An interesting interplay — nearly a “juxtaposition” one might say — between Sally Forth and Heart of the City today. And, no, I don’t want to know what a strip would be like if Ted were the father and Dean were the kid. One of them per strip is probably […]