From yesterday: The 88th National Headliner Award winners honoring the best journalism in the United States in 2021 were announced today. The awards were founded in 1934 by the Press Club of Atlantic City. Newsday’s Matt Davies has won the 2022 National Headliner Award for his 2021 editorial […]
The ongoing flood of Musk/Twitter cartoons continues. Some of them are clever, some are not, but none has been any better than the ones that popped up three days ago, and the net effect seems to be no particular advancement of this issue and, by omission, less advancement of other issues.I have some sympathy for […]
If you want to see Musk/Twitter cartoons, check out yesterday’s exciting episode. I’m currently feeling bowed down by the flood of come-latelies and anybody expecting to land here now had better blow the roof off the place.Which is to say that I very much like Adam Zyglis’s less obvious response.Conservatives are celebrating the anticipated unleashing […]
Elon Musk is purchasing Twitter and, as Dr. MacLeod notes, social media is ablaze with outrage and, as he suggests, they’re flooding social media with furious denunciations of social media.Some of them may actually be bailing out; Mark Hamill notes that he’s felt a great disturbance in the Twitterverse, as if thousands of voices suddenly […]
Mykolas Lukosevicius wasted no time commenting on Macron’s victory in yesterday’s French elections, the caption reading, “So, happy?”Liberty looks anything but, and little wonder after the campaign she’s just endured. She chose the lesser of two evils, and Mykolas offers a bit of a visual joke in that, while her bare breast is taken from […]
We’ll start with a gamble that didn’t pay off, as seen in Nick Anderson (Counterpoint)’s cartoon. As you may have heard, CNN launched a streaming service, CNN+, which was then cancelled before it was a month old.But the gamble wasn’t that they thought it would catch on and it didn’t. I had some quibbles with […]
Some upcoming events.Or in this first one a currently in progress event. There’s no mistaking artwork created by Chad Maupin. Colorful, vibrant and dynamic, his designs — which often incorporate his love of vintage comic books and classic horror movies — leap off the page and assault your senses in the most delightful of ways. […]
I was hoping for a day of frivolity, but this Vintage Radio Patrol (KFS) brought me up short, my first reaction being that Lennie Briscoe would do the same damn thing and torpedo the State’s case against her.Next reaction being to examine that middle panel, which reveals that the strip ran in 1940, which in […]
We’ve been on a bit of a book kick here lately, so let’s start with that. While every year is a good one for people who collect Peanuts books, this one looks to be a particularly prime one for people who collect not so much the books, but the boxes they come in. Peanuts maven […]
Matt Davies illustrates the plight of Floridians canceled by the self-proclaimed opponents of Cancel Culture.Someone — though not Mark Twain — said that America is on a tilt and all the loose nuts slide into Southern California, but it’s getting hard to believe they’re not actually falling straight down. And, however absurd and depressing and incredible […]
Tom Tomorrow sets the stage today by extending the Republicans’ strategy of fear- and hate-mongering into the absurd, for the benefit of anyone who didn’t think it was already there.And let’s note, in particular, that fifth panel, because, in a functioning democracy, it seems unbalanced to blame one party for trying to destroy everything. But […]
A different sort of Juxtaposition to start the day: The famous lines from Arthur Conan Doyle’s “Silver Blaze,” combined with Ann Telnaes’ righteous outrage over the revelations of Senator Mike Lee’s texts, outlining his plan to cooperate in overturning the 2020 elections.The texts caused an uproar on social media, but, as in the Sherlock Holmes […]
Punchbooks has posted this cartoon from April 16, 1919, in which British Prime Minister David Lloyd George cheerfully presents the Paris Peace Agreement, citing the 1895 Punch cartoon which had turned an old joke into a permanent part of the culture:Parts of the agreement that ended the First World War were excellent, but it wasn’t […]
Below are some comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for April 2022 release.Images and links (mostly) via Amazon,though ordering through your local comic or independent book store is a good idea. Famous, Infamous, and Forgotten The Art of Living: Reflections on Mindfulness and the Overexamined Life Birth of a Beetle: The Magazine Cartoons of Mort Walker Unicorn Selfies: […]
Glen LeLievre leads off today’s roundup of dubious pieces and dubious claims, with a cartoon that has been getting a lot of reposts on social media.The dubious part isn’t that it deals with a religious subject at that religion’s most sacred time of year, because it doesn’t mock any theological beliefs. In fact, it seems […]