There have been a lot of political cartoons on the topic of a web ad from the Obama campaign in which Bill Clinton discusses the decision to go after bin Laden in Pakistan. I like John Branch’s take because it goes beyond the immediate and addresses the overall topic.First, here’s the ad, which I hadn’t […]
I think this is the first time I’ve revisited a story arc, except for occasionally featuring an update at the bottom of the posting. First time I’ve gone there twice for a full post.But the chocolate milk arc at Deflocked has taken some twists and turns and, while I already did a mini-update a few […]
Matt Wuerker on the inability of the media to focus on any but the low-hanging, sparkly fruit.Granted, the GSA scandal is easy coverage, since there’s no possible justification for the wretched excess involved, and I suspect that, if they had gone to Seattle, stayed in penthouse suites and gorged on Kobe beef and caviar while […]
One of the issues in comics, as in TV sitcoms, is how you work with the basic concept over an extended period without going stale.I mention TV because I heard an interview with Garry Marshall on Weekend Edition yesterday, and Scott Simon asked him to comment on how Henry Winkler’s character took over on “Happy Days.”I might […]
Having just gone off on hackneyed media images of kids, I should dock Jeff Danziger for this depiction of lazy slackers, but I’m gonna give him a pass on a ruling of mutual satiric sarcasm.His defense is the jolly promises of the nice man in the truck. If he can joke about the jobs, he […]
Okay, check this out: It’s almost as if Marshall Ramsey actually bothered to find out what “Hunger Games” was about before trying to work it into a cartoon!At this point, that comes as a double delight.First of all, it’s been an annoyance, since the blockbuster movie opened, to see lazy cartoonists, as well as some […]
Today’s Pajama Diaries – timed for “Take Your Son or Daughter or Other Underaged Dependent To Work Day” — brought a smile, coming as it did after a sourball article on the topic, which I read yesterday but now can’t find because it had been linked on Facebook, which means it has drifted away into the […]
ND Mazin is a well-established cartoonist in South Africa but new to me and possibly new to you. However, he is just launching a new version of an old strip, Azaniamania, which makes it a good time to jump on and see where it’s going. (This is one time when clicking on the strip to […]
Today, Joe Martin’s Willie & Ethel delivers an unintentional spot-on response to Slate’s … um … let me look it up … “Farhad Manjoo.”I’ve been a fan of Willie and Ethel for decades. I never heard of Farhad Manjoo until he wrote a commentary in Slate condemning the Pulitzer Prize committee for awarding a prize […]
When I first looked at today’s Rhymes with Orange, I thought it was going to be a riff on excessive government spending, tied in to the Secret Service scandal (such as it is) and the GSA scandal (which I’m tired of).There actually are secret government cafeterias, and the food there is reportedly rather above the […]
I usually rely on Red and Rover for my nostalgic trips back into childhood, but today’s Soup to Nutz, though the strip is ostensibly set in the present, brings up a memory from the Olden Days.For those too young to know, comic books in them thar days were partially supported by advertising, and the advertisers […]
Liza Donnelly posted this to her blog. I like it because it is open-ended, which goes back to last week’s rant that included an anecdote in which Ezra Pound (I think) snaps “It’s a poem. It doesn’t mean anything, lady. It’s just a goddam poem.”Well, this is just a goddam cartoon, but it’s brilliant and I’m […]
One of my favorite parts of The Brilliant Mind of Edison Lee is the stunned incomprehension on the faces of his contemporaries. They’re not hostile to him; they just can’t figure out what this kid is talking about, except that it isn’t what they’re used to.And the realistic part — and, in the creative arts, […]
Drew Friedman posted this wonderful Hershfeld classic on his Facebook page:And my immediate reaction was that it looked like a contest waiting to be launched. So here’s an annotated version:Make your best guesses. Here’s my list, and it is not complete or at all canonical. Please add, or disagree.
Yesterday, I added little to Darrin Bell’s cartoon because it would have dulled the point of his commentary.Today, I can add little to Mike Baldwin’s Cornered because there’s nothing much to add except that it really, really cracked me up in the best possible way … after a pause.And then every time I looked at […]