Jeremy gets grief in today’s Zits, but he brings back some memories for me, plus a little gratitude that my mother was a lot more mellow than his.While Christmas Day is, indeed, a huge family celebration, it seems to crest pretty early in the morning, fade in midafternoon and then just kind of peter out […]

So Animatronic Trump has come to Earth and I’m blaming Ray.Animatronic Trump is nearly as scary as the real one. I’ve never been to the Hall of Presidents or the Magic Kingdom at all, though I did visit Disneyland back when I was 9 and Donnie was 13, before Disneyland began banning men with long […]

An update courtesy of Johanna Draper Carlson on the ongoing infringement suit brought by Dr. Seuss’s estate against Comicmix, which ran a Kickstarter to fund a book called “Oh The Places You’ll Boldly Go,” based on the Seuss piece of nearly the same title and Star Trek.This illustration is from the complaint, which goes into […]

We’ll start the day with Mike Thompson’s piece, which strikes a nice balance between stupid mistletoe jokes and the self-bashing overcorrections of other cartoonists.Male cartoonists seem to really be struggling with this thing. There’s really nothing funny about it, and it’s the kind of topic — most civil rights issues are — where making jokes […]

I was just going to stick this Kevin Siers cartoon in towards the end of the posting. It’s about the owner of the Carolina Panthers football team being investigated by the NFL for #METOO issues and deciding to sell the team.Which is interesting, yes, and his blowing town won’t stop the team from being responsible […]

The Good News first: As seen in this cartoon by Australian cartoonist Glen Le Lievre, Eaten Fish, the young Iranian cartoonist imprisoned in an Australian detention camp, has been freed and taken to an undisclosed safe city in Northern Europe.I wrote about Eaten Fish in this February posting about press freedom and responsibility.A lot of […]

(Andy Marlette) (Pat Bagley)Bagley and Marlette have some fun with the attempt to subvert Mueller’s investigation, based on the fact that two members of his team exchanged personal emails in which they expressed disgust with Donald Trump. And Bernie Sanders.And Eric Holder.And Martin O’Malley.And John Kasich.For which Mueller promptly fired the one who was still on […]

Here is what I guess may prove to be Lee Judge’s final political cartoon.He’s been cut loose by the Kansas City Star after 37 years, which at least earned him the right to do a farewell column, which you can read at Bado’s Blog.In addition to reproducing Judge’s column, Bado offers a selection of Judge’s […]

(Sherman’s Lagoon)  (Rudy Park)And so it begins. Time for the Baby Boomers to shuffle off this mortal coil and let Gen X take the spotlight, poor bastards.Sherman makes the cultural references while Rudy takes the viewpoint and it’s music to my weary old ears. Now we can just f-f-f-f-fade away. It’s really happening and I know that […]

Okay, one political piece, and only because Bad Reporter is consistently silly, even when he’s right on. It is beyond me how anybody can put Omarosa on his staff and then throw a term like “lightweight” at another woman, or another man, or a piece of furniture.But I did notice that, while there were multiple signatures […]

Steve Sack gets the last word on this, or, at least, the last word here.As I suspected, the pages now are full of Roy Moore on his horse and Trump being upset. I’m pleased to see the hoopla, because I think the real significance of the election was that it will encourage people to get […]

One advantage of living in Australia is that it’s already tomorrow, so David Rowe got a jump on his American colleagues, who are (as I write this at 5:25 AM EST) just pouring their first cups of coffee.Though I see the NY Daily News also picked up on the irresistable straightline Moore handed everyone. I […]

Against all past tendencies around here, I’m once more highlighting a bland restatement cartoon, this time the other Tom, the Tomorrow one.I still think things have swung so far out of balance that simply restating what people say fails to capture the level of dysfunction, but on this topic, there is an utter cluelessness that, […]

Arlo & Janis set the mood for this morning’s nearly entirely non-political posting. I’m giving myself some practical gifts this year, like new tires, and one of them was even a holiday surprise, because I didn’t expect my computer to start falling apart.But I’m with Arlo, and I think it’s Scroogey to balance your budget by […]

It’s all laid out in today’s Candorville.I started to say that I think a lot of guys are going through this mental inventory, but, in light of that last panel, let me switch it to “I hope a lot of guys are going through this mental inventory.”We all ought to be.We should be reassessing our […]