Not just “breaking with format” today but actually violating the Prime Directive. I don’t like these cartoons, and some of them are by cartoonists I like a lot. But c’mon, man.Look, I ran an early one by Pat Oliphant. Even then (a week ago) I said the analogy was strained, and further developments have made […]
Matt Bors has got it.But the thing is, I don’t mind when the lunatic fringe responds to something in a lunatic manner. That comes with the territory.I object, however, to sloppy, incomplete reporting feeding into their delusions of persecution. They’ve got people within their own organizations to do that, thank you.Yet we keep hearing on […]
I had to move most of what I own last week so that the electricians could rewire the apartment. There were some inconveniences, but also some benefits, chief among them being finding things I hadn’t seen in quite awhile, and high on that list was a collection of Charles Addams cartoons which my father gave […]
When you’re right, you’re right, and, in today’s The Buckets, Greg Cravens gets it right.I vented pretty thoroughly on my Braveheart/Babe theory a year and a half ago, but it’s still relevant if you like a good rant and don’t mind that the video at the end has disappeared. (Here it is, for that matter.)The […]
Joel Pett makes the connection that has seemingly eluded other cartoonists. The use of Kermit Gosnell as an argument against keeping abortion legal boggles the mind.To start with, the fact that he was on trial at all shows that what he was accused of doing was outside the law, and now his conviction underlines the […]
No kidding, Harry Bliss. No kidding.Thank goodness comics cover a variety of topics, although right now a substantial portion of them appear to be dedicated to depictions of Barrack Obama as Richard Nixon. Many cartoonists avoid looking at other cartoons for fear of absorbing an idea and later inadvertantly using it without recalling that it wasn’t […]
I always like Tom the Dancing Bug’s Super-Fun-Pak Comix, but I particularly like the sidebar of garbage served up with this installment.Fact is, I was hoping that somebody would post a cartoon today that was light and breezy and funny and would get me off the political kick for a bit. In part because, when I […]
“Noone is trying to kill you,” Clevinger said.”Then why are they shooting at me?” Yossarian asked.”They’re shooting at everyone,” Clevinger answered. “They’re trying to kill everyone.””And what difference does that make?”It’s good to have both sides upset over revelations of selective IRS scrutiny and of the collection of telephone data from the phones of Associated […]
One of my favorite kinds of joke is the kind that plants a naughty, inescapable giggle, almost like an ear worm, so that it pops up every time you see the trigger.I don’t find the stick-figure families on the back windows of cars all that obnoxious. It’s not bragging, like the honor-role kid stickers, or […]
German cartoonist Heiko Sakurai offers a commentary on the difficulty of spotting terrorists, or, perhaps, of defining terrorism.I don’t have a specific solution to the security issues, but I know this: The policy of “jail them all and let God sort them out” is immoral, antidemocratic and ineffective.Obama has stated, rightly, that Guantanamo is a […]
I thought I’d use this Mother’s Day as a chance to look at a pair of nostalgic comic strip families, to supplement the coverage of contemporary mothers in today’s funny pages.JR Williams “Out Our Way” launched with the nostalgia pre-loaded in the 20s, since he was purposely pitching to the grownups and basing much — […]
I like this Mark Fiore piece a lot, but I don’t think it’s a comic. (You’ll have to go watch it there, since he has disabled embedding. We’ll talk about that another day. Go.)So I don’t know that it fits the mission of the blog, but I do know that it’s a very clever takeoff, […]
There are a few Benghazi cartoons making fun of the hyperinflation being brought to this non-event, but I think John Cole got it best. I mean, are we really not supposed to be able to see past the scary mask? Maybe if it were bigger. Maybe if it even began to somewhat fit.And yet there it […]
Jen Sorensen picks up on an oddity of the burgeoning Chinese economy.What’s odd about it is that it’s kind of a flashback to our own industrial revolution. In the 19th century, there were two levels of getting away from it all:One was simply the country retreat, and a lot of upper middleclass people spent time […]
In the current (th)Ink, Keith Knight lobs a stinkbomb at a deserving target. I keep seeing stories tagged to HuffPo in my Facebook feed, but, honestly, it’s like one of those tired old TV shows that they keep renewing and, when you see it listed on your guide, your response has long since gone from […]