Bill Bramhall uses a familiar symbol — heck, I just cited it the other day — and this time, it’s no joke and not much of an exaggeration. Perhaps none.(Bloomberg) — Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump’s former lawyer and fixer, has postponed his testimony to Congress citing concerns for his family’s safety.On the surface, we […]
Matt Bors reflects the battle now raging over whatever happened at the Lincoln Memorial, which seems at this point to be outrage over young people being used as political pawns, which seems to involve using the young people as political pawns.And as Bors suggests, it’s less about what happened than about politics, and let me […]
Maybe I’m just in a bad mood or maybe events are making any other mood difficult, but I’m going to start by breaking a rule and using yesterday’s Candorville instead of the current one.I thought it was pretty cool that this particular strip dropped on the day Harris announced her candidacy.And I found myself taking […]
I was wronged. All I wanted was a trial by jury, a right enshrined in Anglo-Saxon legal tradition in the Magna Carta 903 years ago. Is this still America? No. America is dead.For me personally the ruling necessarily means bankruptcy and/or being forced to leave the United States so I can continue to earn a […]
Marty Two-Bulls has standing to comment on the incident at the Lincoln Memorial, or maybe he should recuse himself, I’m not sure which.The Rashomon element of this event is incredibly strong, with plenty of blame and a bit of unfortunate timing and a huge element of “Where were the grown ups?” not only in terms […]
Why Trump is Cartoonist’s Target-in-Chief“You pick on Trump way more than you picked on Obama.” I started wondering if these people were on to something. Trump officially marks the middle of his term Sunday, so I decided to go back and count the cartoons I’ve done on him over the past two years and compare […]
I don’t know that Dan Piraro (who still does the Sunday Bizarros, while Wayno does the dailies) was looking for LOLs so much as nods and chuckles with this one.There’s plenty of comedy fodder in the sort of adventure-tourism that sends well-heeled suburbanites up the sides of mountains, though perhaps I’m too cynical in thinking […]
Today’s Bottomliners coincidentally echoes some rumblings on social media, which I think started … … with this piece that graphic novelist Nate Powell posted about two weeks ago … … but which, in the last 48 hours or so, was joined by this article, which ran last May at Comics Beat, in which another graphic novelist explains […]
I’ve seen about half a dozen Carol Channing obituary cartoons, which sent me to IMBD to find out the last time she worked. Turns out it’s not quite as long ago as this TV Guide cover, which was in 1966.She did some voice work a quarter century ago and a couple of cameo appearances a […]
I’ll let today’s Candorville set the tone, because it’s the most self-critical of today’s batch of cartoons, plus I’m always pleased whenever Clyde becomes the voice of reason.It did seem, at first, that Jazmine Barnes had been the victim of a random, race-based drive-by shooting and there was a lot of outrage over the concept. […]
Poor Lee Judge.Not only do the scandals come faster than you can draw them, but even trivial gags get one-upped by a President who is far more of a chintzy, childish cheapskate than anyone could imagine.But, yeah, the National Champion Clemson Tigers are lucky he didn’t just set out an array of binkies and bottles.The […]
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette editorial cartoonist Steve Kelley is facing accusations of sexism after two cartoons in a row could be interpreted as portraying women as gold diggers. January 13, 2019 cartoonThe Pittsburgh City Paper has taken the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and Steve Kelly to task for the cartoons:For the past two days, Pittsburgh readers looking for some […]
We’re dealing with sub-zero weather moreso than snow, though we got a load of that the other day. Enough to make me laff at this Zits, because I’ve had a VW van and, when your source of heat is the gentle breeze blowing over the engine eight feet behind you, the distinction between wipers that […]
Perhaps the view from a distance is clearer. British cartoonist Brian Adcock manages to freshen the familiar panhandler concept by propping her up against the wall — excuse me, the barrier or, shall we say, steel slats — with her MAGA hat as the receptacle for the charity she needs. Though part of the Trump Party […]
Jimmy Margulies produces the most concise picture of what we’re facing: Trump’s wall has very little to do with border security and everything to do with his ego.If the topic were border security, he could have come to an agreement with Congress months, perhaps years ago: Both parties take the matter seriously, though only one […]