“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 […]
Matt Bors with a delightfully grim commentary on global trade and its most prominent cheerleader.I was a business reporter at a paper on the US/Canada border when the Free Trade Agreement went through in 1988, and it was a very big deal. We’d already established enough cross-border shopping to justify building a huge mall that […]
First, equal time for Those Other Pets, courtesy of Dan Piraro.Nothing much to add to this except “hahahahahahaha,” which is almost always good commentary, if not terribly enlightening. But I’ve had plenty to say recently about dogs and the credulity of their owners, so there’s no reason not to feature kitty cats, too.I’m a dog […]
I’ve spoken before of how much I loved the Sunday Mark Trail strip as a kid, and how much I wish more papers would carry it now, if only to keep kids somewhat rooted in the world outside.That rant is worth going back to, but today’s strip is a good example of (A) lore, (B) […]
I always hope that people are following at least some of the links here, sometimes because I link to something cool or funny in the way of additional commentary, but first and foremost because I link to the various featured artists and (A) I hope to turn people on to new stuff and (B) it’s […]
The factory disaster in Bangladesh is showing up in political cartoons. I particularly like Matt Davies’ piece, tying it into the brutal sweatshops of our own history.But I sure don’t have much of a prescription, beyond the obvious, unlikely and unhelpful.Yes, don’t buy clothes from sweatshops. So … where then? Because affordable clothes come from […]
Hate to use the same cartoonist too many times too close together, but the “red line” cartoons on Syria are starting to weird me out, and this Danziger cartoon hit the mark like no other.When did so many ink-slingers from both sides of the aisle become so easy-going about the lives of other people’s kids?Mike […]
Not sure where this arc on Zack Hill is headed. Either her fears will be shown to be silly or dog parks will be unmasked as hell-holes. I’m hoping for the former, but Deering and Newcombe don’t always mirror my thoughts.Cat owners take a lot of grief for eccentricity — much of it deserved — […]