“Reply All” varies between “Sex in the City” self-indulgence and sudden genuine insights, the saving grace for the former being that the vapidity is mocked, if not with self-loathing, at least with some pleasant sarcasm and a sense that shallowness is not a virtue.As for the latter, Lizzie’s conversations with her mother are an interesting […]
A combination of having done political cartooning presentations for many years and being in Denver at the time of the Dark Knight shootings made this 1981 Jim Mazzotta cartoon spring to mind.
There are several layers to the Voter Suppression Movement, but I think Tony Auth does the best job of getting to the heart of the matter.Both Keith Knight …… and Lee Judge … … question the GOP’s priorities, but that doesn’t really cut to the heart of the matter. In fact, it kind of ignores the […]
Cartoon Movement is hosting an interesting look at the London Olympics by Tom Humberstone. It’s a quick read — 11 pages — but a nice journalistic contrast with the combination of shallow triumphalism and goopy advertorial coverage you’re apt to see elsewhere.I was a fan of the Olympics back when they seemed to be a […]
I’m still on the road, so posting the day’s cartoons remains a problem, but the flipside is that I have more chances for inspiration. For example, visiting my niece, freshly back from the Peace Corps and heading crosscountry to NYC for grad school, brings to mind this 1980 cartoon by Richard Guindon.The distance from Colorado […]
Signe Wilkinson gets to sneak one more Aurora Shooting cartoon into the mix because it’s really a slap upside the head of a candidate who refuses to tell us anything about himself and denies the things we already know.Apparently, Romney was for assault gun bans before he was against them. Granted, it may be that in the […]
The Wolf, by Sgt. Leonard Sansone, was the kind of insider humor for GIs produced by GIs like Sansone, Bil Keane, Al Jaffee and others. Less biting than Mauldin, it still traded on experience rather than stateside fantasies and had its own type of edge.My dad had a collection of The Wolf, and I didn’t […]
(David Fitzsimmons) As it happens, I’m in Denver, where I just did two journalism workshops at the Post for young writers, one which is an annual event for kids who want to learn about reporting, photography, etc., and the second a more focused training session for the young reporters (roughly 8 to 14) at the weekly […]
I think VIP — Virgil Partch — was the first cartoonist I could identify by style, which is to say, I think seeing his work is part of what made me, maybe about the time I was six or seven, hip to the idea that, when the pictures looked the same, they were drawn by […]
I’ve used JJ O’Malley as my avatar since joining Facebook, but I used him as a screen name well before that, and, before I even had an Internet connection, I had a dog named JJ O’Malley.I’ve mentioned this several times, how, as a wee lad, I would take down my parents’ “Barnaby” book and, even […]
To say it again, timing is everything in comedy, and when the first of these Rhymes With Orange comics appeared last month, it put me on the floor but it also happened to coincide with the verdict in the Jerry Sandusky trial, which demanded more urgent cartoon commentary.So I filed it away because I wanted […]
Nelson Mandela — “Madiba” (his clan name in Xhosa, used affectionately throughout his multicultural nation) — turns 94 today, and South African cartoonists joined in a sort of benevolent conspiracy to wish him a happy birthday. My favorite is this gentle thank-you from Nanda Soobben, which is not only a very nice caricature of the man […]
Between Friends is always good reading, and I like the current arc, where Susan is in the midst of a deep dithering period and Maeve has become the voice of reason.Mostly, I like the idea that Sandra Bell Lundy has created characters with enough nuance that, while the idea of Maeve being “the voice of […]
Timing is everything in humor. No, wait, timing plus writing is … no, timing, writing and evocative artwork …Never mind. Loose Parts cracked me up this morning, largely because I recently got caught up in discussions of an utterly ridiculous “Whatever happened to patriotism?” story that was, as in nearly all these cases, just someone […]
The report on the Penn State sexual abuse scandal has unleashed a predictable torrent of political cartoons, most of them predictably not very good.I like Steve Breen’s take.The scandal has certainly brought out the obvious, including the weepers. In this case, timing is as critical as subject matter: Back in November, when the grand jury […]