The order in which I read comics in the morning is intentional: I warm up with strips and save the editorial/political stuff mostly for the end, after which I go to Facebook and Twitter to look for cartoons that haven’t hit the syndicate sites yet.So I was impressed with the Bad Reporter posted at GoComics […]

The Facebook thing isn’t going away, and it’s probably less a testament to the harm done than a testament to Facebook’s ubiquity and how we all love a pile-on.Tom the Dancing Bug has a nice roundup of complaints, though I’d argue with him, or at least with them, on the one at the upper right, […]

I wasn’t sure where to begin today, but Matt Bors offers a nice meld of the Facebook issue and our national governance crisis.Bors often depicts a level of something I’m hesitant to call “paranoia” but which is based on an assumption of purpose and intent that I think the world largely lacks. That is, people […]

I’m gonna start today with a Non Sequitur that made me say, “Do they still do that?”My granddaughter called with a tax question the other day and, since it was a minor change that didn’t affect the final total and she’d already filed, I told her to forget it, because we’ve stripped the IRS budget […]

Joy of Tech takes on the Cambridge Analytica case, and, because it’s a multi-panel cartoon, it’s possible to agree with parts of their take and disagree with others.First of all, here’s a complete takedown on what happened and why, (it’s long; read it later) and it ought to both scare and infuriate you.It should scare […]

It’s been a while since Rex Morgan did his MD thing, and I’m hoping he comes up with something odd and interesting to explain why his babysitter’s friend can’t swallow without choking.He did have a patient with Alzheimers not all that long ago, but it was tangled up in a welter of personal relationships such […]

We’ll give Marty Two Bulls Sr. top billing on this St. Patrick’s Day, because there’s no joke an Irishman likes better than seeing the tables turned, especially when served up with a dose of justice.Two Bulls is observing the common, and offensive, nature of dubious ethnic claims, made without humor by Buffy St. Marie:Can you […]

The other day I was listening to NPR coverage of what was then the upcoming Pennsylvania special election, and they interviewed someone who said that, really, things were going pretty well under Trump, because the economy was doing better and he was pleased with his tax cut.I like Gary Varvel’s cartoon, but Congress certainly isn’t […]

 That iconic opening challenged viewers — and presumably Dr. Zorba’s medical students — a great deal more than anything that followed on “Ben Casey.” I thought of it yesterday as the Stephen Hawking tribute cartoons poured in, mostly because of its combination of simplicity and depth.Which Kevin Siers mastered to a chalk drop. One syndicated cartoonist, seeing […]

I wouldn’t know where to start if Ruben Bolling hadn’t coincidentally snipped this bit from a previous Tom the Dancing Bug to run in his Super-Fun-Pak Comix feature today. Without bothering to research when the original, larger comic parody ran, this piece clearly is from the Trump era because it’s made up of things foolish […]

Every time I feature “Existential Comics,” I end up putting in a disclaimer about whether you have to be a philosophy major to get the joke. So, to keep up that tradition, let me say that you don’t have to have had more than a faint brush with existentialism to find “Existential Werewolves” — of […]

I’ve just finished making reservations to be at this symposium at the University of Minnesota next month, and I’ll cover it here but, if you’re anywhere within range, you’d do well to be there yourself.The occasion, the 30th anniversary of the landmark Hustler v Falwell decision that brought the 1st Amendment into focus for editorial cartoonists, […]

Jeff Danziger comments on the upcoming talks between Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un, and if you have wondered how far off the mark the Trump Amateur Hour can wander, this is a pretty good example, because the State Department has been hemorrhaging unreplaced talent faster than the White House and, while a meeting like […]

Tom the Dancing Bug steps forward to stop me from deleting from my bookmarks an entire category of editorial cartoons. I’ve said before that I am losing patience with “bland restatement,” those altie cartoons in which people simply restate in simple terms the things people in power are really saying.It may be an age thing: I’ve […]

(Red and Rover) (Bliss)Yesterday was a snow day, which is rare for someone who works at home, but we woke up to over a foot of snow and the dog was no more interested in going out than I was. So, after the plow had cleared our driveway, I went out once to run an […]