There are several sinking ship cartoons out there, but I particularly like Tim Eagan’s take because of the captain’s blissful ignorance, accented by the fact that we find, in the second panel, that he is dangling at 90 degrees, which emphasizes his serious disregard of reality.Constant readers will, however, wince in anticipation of yet one […]

The eyes of everyone were on Texas last night, and RJ Matson plays with the big question, which was turnout. While there is some speculation that Ted Cruz could lose his seat in the general election next fall, the primaries were seen more as a general bellwether to indicate how the nation is going as […]

(Non Sequitur) (Candorville)We lead off today with a Juxtaposition, in which Danae and Susan explore the idea that you can relieve the stress by not focusing on all the depressing things going on around you.Lemont provides the counterargument.I’m not entirely against Danae’s contention that you create a lot of stress by continually framing arguments. My […]

Back from a quick road trip, and the fact that I wrote yesterday’s post in advance means I couldn’t feature this Edison Lee Sunday piece.I particularly like the last panel, which is excellent but not in a hopeful way. “Excellent” in depicting what we’re gonna do about it, which is to accept what we’re given.Maybe […]

Eight-five years ago yesterday, suffragists seized upon the inauguration of Woodrow Wilson to stage a major march in Washington. While they had hardly planned for it to be disruptive, the bad behavior of the mostly-male crowds, plus the lack of adequate response by the Washington police force, touched off a scandal that brought many Americans […]

With the resignation of Hope Hicks, there have been several cartoons about the revolving White House door. I like Walt Handelsman’s because it both names the dearly departed and depicts the resulting void and even takes a slap at the president’s grasp of reality, which is a factor in all this.I’m still reading “Fire and […]

While I was poking around in 1913 looking for something you’ll see Sunday, I came across these pieces which you’ll see now.They’re by a fellow named Rube Goldberg, of whom I think it might be said that he “was a Pulitzer Prize winning cartoonist best known for his zany invention cartoon” and very likely was.He’s […]

No theme today, just various things that struck me, and so let’s start with the most various of them, which is Steve Breen’s commentary on the resignation of SeaWorld’s CEO. Apparently, he’d been ruining his Armani suits by despondently scraping against the walls of his office.I like the way SeaWorld explained this to stockholders: With improving operating […]

There’s a lot going on in the world and it’s tempting to just throw some pies, squirt a little seltzer and take a break from it all, but, then again, we’re at a moment when not talking politics is in itself a political gesture.Still, we can take a moment to watch Mr. Fitz attempt to […]

Edison Lee is early in the stages of a fantasy arc about the first moon landing, and I’m leading with it because I just finished editing a piece about Saturday’s “Girls and Science” program at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science. Which puts all sorts of ironies all over that last panel. Orville is less […]

Joy of Tech hit me at a good moment with this one, because I generally decline opportunities to be spammed, though more politely than this fellow. But, of course, it wouldn’t be funny if he didn’t explode.However, I nearly exploded yesterday, as I was followed around the grocery store by a woman determined to tell […]

Dog Eat Doug makes an oblique commentary on the life of a comic strip: It starts out wandering a bit, then finds its legs, hits the groove and, too often, the groove becomes a rut. It doesn’t hurt that Brian Anderson is, when he’s not drawing Doug and Sophie, doing fantasy work and that he […]

New Yorker covers are fascinating enough that an article called “20 Iconic New Yorker Covers from the last 93 Years” can be at once disappointing and well worth your time.”Disappointing” in that only a half dozen are from more than 20 years ago, and it’s hard to believe that a little more digging in those […]

There was a time not so long ago  — but before the Parkland kids were born — when the idea of a hall monitor with a machine gun was funny, in part because we hadn’t begun to slaughter each other in random murders but mostly because nobody was stupid enough to think that a gun […]

Let’s start the day with a topic we can all agree on: One should not paint the toilet.Agnes is planning to surprise her grandmother by redecorating the bathroom and I will say that, if she goes no further than loosening things on the toilet, a surprise is almost guaranteed.The girls had faced the critical question […]