Darrin Bell’s familiar metaphor suggests solving the current situation is more difficult that we thought.Or not.But it doesn’t make it any easier.The notion that, by slowly turning up the heat, you can boil a frog without it trying to escape isn’t true, but it’s a useful concept, particularly if you add a little Orwell to […]

Start with a snippet from a thoughtful piece by Sara Lautman and Esther Werdiger at Lennyletter about seeing a tattoo that was more thought-provoking than the recipient probably intended, or, at least, it provoked thoughts she hadn’t been trying to. The comic takes its name from the tat: “Property of Francisco” and there you have the […]

There are several cartoons floating around about “the smoking gun” of Don Jr and his meeting with someone who unexpectedly turned out to be an agent of the Russian government, though he was told only that she was an agent of the Russian government. She denies it. He denied it for awhile. Now he only […]

Mr. Fitz is moving from a middle-school to K-12 setting over the summer, which will give real-world teacher David Finkle a wider range of topics. At the moment, Mr. Fitz has been assigned to help students with their college essays and sad hilarity ensues.Finkle regularly rips bad teaching from the inside, while also offering teachers […]

Dutch cartoonist Bart Van Leeuwen sets the tone with this portrait of the G-20 leaders — or, as that out-of-focus backdrop says, the “G19.25” — a more devastating comment because of his semi-realistic style.He’s certainly not the first nor only cartoonist to portray Trump as a petulant, willful baby, but this could not be a […]

Rhymes With Orange introduces the concept of the bumpersticker asterisk, which we need more of.It also plays on puppy-buyers’ regret, which is well-established and which we need less of.Faulkner wrote that “you don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.”He was talking about Mississippi and family but he might […]

Some very good news from Cartoon Movement, a major resource for those who want an international view of things: The site has been awarded funding from the Google Digital News Initiative and, while Tjeerd Royaards doesn’t specify the details of the grant itself, he outlines some solid improvements to the site that it will permit.I […]

Clay Jones posted this cartoon in December, reacting to Donald Trump’s appearance on a Time Magazine cover as “Man of the Year.” In his commentary, he noted that the designation is for the person who most impacted the news, not for the person who has most improved the world, such that, while many wonderful people have […]

David Horsey leads today with a provocative cartoon, using “provocative” in its best sense: He accompanies it with a thoughtful essay on how we teach, and understand, our history that will, at worst, provoke you to think and, at best, provoke actual conversations on the topic.And I particularly like that he echoes a peeve of […]

I’m kind of stumbling downstairs into the detritus from last night’s party and trying to recollect what happened and put off cleaning up the mess.There’ve been a lot of cartoons about fireworks lately, but I like today’s Frazz best, though I’m applying it to dogs rather than to people.For some reason, this was the Year […]

I’ve been feeling a little burned out lately and thought I’d take a break and play around in the files. Having no particular goal in mind beyond that, I decided to follow the example of our Canadian cousins and celebrate the 150th Anniversary of our country, so here are some comics from July 4, 1926. The […]

(Pajama Diaries) (Pros and Cons)One of the courses I took in college was called “Ways of Knowing,” thinly disguised metaphysics I filed in the “I say it’s spinach and I say to hell with it” category, but all our courses within the major were required, so my opinion didn’t matter.However, about second semester senior year, […]

I was thinking yesterday that perhaps it’s too late for editorial cartoons, that there’s no point in debate because nobody’s listening, here under the snowflake flag in which everyone is constantly offended and nobody is happy and, in the words of my elder sister possibly just before I became her little brother, “Everybody always be’s […]

Today is Canada Day, and so we’ll salute our neighbors to the North on the occasion of the 150th Anniversary of Confederation or perhaps not, as Michael de Adder suggests, given that only parts of Canada confederated on that date.However, that’s when they mark their start as a nation and, on the 100th anniversary, they […]

(Andy Marlette) (Pat Bagley)I don’t have a lot to share in the way of editorial responses to yesterday’s ghastly display of tasteless piggishness on the part of our president, but here are two approaches we can discuss.Marlette simply expresses the disgust decent people feel over Trump’s outrageous lack of self-discipline and self-respect, and it’s hard […]