Matt Bors on the guy who peed in the reservoir and the town that drained it, a story that gets funnier and funnier the more it goes on.The bottom line on all this is that people believe the science that bolsters their opinions and are blind to the science that doesn’t, and even independent, free-thinking […]
… so that we may bring you this important message about taste and sensitivity About six years ago, I interviewed a fellow in Rangeley, Maine, who had climbed Kilimanjaro, a feat that involves significant conditioning but no technical climbing and is popular among those who can afford to do it. He had sold his pharmacy to […]
Maybe we’re making too much of this thing, but it’s worth noting that the majority of conservative commentators seem to be either ignoring or mocking Clive Bundy. Granted, Steve Benson is hardly a conservative, but if this the only style of cartooning on the topic that seems to be out there, then ol’ Clive hasn’t […]
Let’s start with this Garrincha cartoon. I’ve said before that I’m more attuned to the story-telling American style of political cartooning rather than the more metaphorical international style, but this is a situation in which the two blend rather seamlessly. Moreover, I like the cartoon for what Gustavo Rodriguez is and what his cartoon isn’t. […]
For a season, and a day, dedicated to rebirth, there sure were plenty of “boy am I old” cartoons today.We’ll ease into this with Between Friends, which is a fairly gentle parent-child-tech gag.(It also, I think, fits today’s topic as a subtle shift in age for Emma. Sandra Bell Lundy periodically nudges her characters forward […]
Let’s start today’s roundup with Jimmy Margulies on the new, revised, please-keep-requiring-them SATs, the makers of which have now decided to drop the college-bound-level vocabulary portion and reset the top score back to 1600, having previously stopped asking kids to show their reasoning powers through analogies.You remember the analogies, right? SATS:high score::Youth Soccer:A. professional careerB. World […]
One of the good things about living in the Upper Valley is that the Center for Cartoon Studies has grown to the point where they are no longer quite as inward-looking as they have been, but are beginning to reach out more often to the community, so that instead of whisking cartoonists in and out […]
I’m happy to report that rampant screwballism appears to be loosening its grip. Tim Eagan is not a screwball, and his take on the whole “sagebrush revolution” kerfuffle seems not only funny but sensible. Meanwhile, however, a couple of knee-jerk conservative cartoonists have tried to make something sinister out of the confrontation and they’re not getting […]
Tom the Dancing Bug does a potential “Get off my lawn” cartoon, but it appeals to me for a number of reasons, only one of which is that I wish those damn kids would get off my lawn.I don’t really get Twitter, which seems less like pausing in the grocery store to chat for a […]
Here is a small piece of a longer work by Natalie Nourigat that is at once the saddest and also the most encouraging thing I’ve seen in a very long time. You need to go read the whole thing.(I’ll wait.)I feel very bad about the way we’ve slowly immersed ourselves in a police-state mentality, but […]
50 years ago yesterday …If you missed yesterday’s posting, you may want to scroll down for the cartoons from April 13, 1914 and 1939. Meanwhile, here’s a selection from 1964. You may recall that this whole nostalgia thing began with my poking around for Civil Rights Act coverage. As it happens, this John Milt Morris cartoon […]
I was looking back at coverage of the Civil Rights Act a half-century ago and, well, got distracted. We’ll get to the “50 Years Ago” part eventually, but first let’s look at what you’d have looked at if you’d sat down with your paper on April 13, 1914 (This will be a good day to […]
In the past day-and-a-half, I’ve seen enough dancing on the grave to appreciate Bob Englehart’s more insightful commentary on the resignation of Kathleen Sibelius.In his commentary on the cartoon, Englehart calls her “something of a scapegoat,” which is putting it mildly, and spreads the blame both among the Republican witchhunters and an administration that didn’t […]
Yesterday, Alison Bechdel was in town to deliver the Center for Cartoon Studies’ Will Eisner Spring Lecture at Dartmouth to an audience of CCS students, Dartmouth students, fans from the community and Ed Koren, who, after all, is Cartoonist Laureate of Vermont, where both the CCS and Alison Bechdel are headquartered. It was a very different […]
Mary Lawton with a seasonal note. Until the leaves come back, this is how chic trees make a fashion statement.And Willie & Ethel with a related take.I’ve lived in a couple of places where paper production was a major part of the local economy, given which the idea that grocery stores would even dare to […]