Mike Luckovich does well on a topic over which just about everyone else whiffed.I don’t mind the flood of Teary-Eye cartoons, because, while they’re not very helpful or creative, they’re inevitable and if they sell, that’s on the editors who made a cheesy choice.Ditto with the various plays on “Our National Pastime,” which say nothing except, […]
Between the utterly bizarre ass-kissing contest at Trump’s first cabinet meeting and the useless questioning of The Little Man Who Wasn’t There, there’s not much a cartoonist can do to exaggerate things and make a point, and Bruce Plante does about as good a job as anyone, particularly since he manages to deal with the […]
Scott Stantis continues his dark night of the soul with today’s Prickly City, which lays out our State of Disunion, and Carmen’s comment at the end is less a punchline than a summation.Yes, it’s come to this.Were you waiting for Fort Sumter? Pfft — That’s such a 19th Century way to kick off a Civil […]
Saw this yesterday morning when I took the dog for a walk in the park and there’s a bad pun in there about setting the mood for the day, but I’ll let you make it. Here’s the next picture I took, which is of Mark Parisi signing copies of Marty Pants #1 for some fans at […]
Ben Bolt hit me squarely this morning.To bring you up to speed, in this 1956 story arc (which I noted earlier came out at roughly the same time as “Rebel Without a Cause”), Ben has befriended a young hood who lost a leg in a game of vehicular chicken, and found him a job as […]
Paul Ryan’s bizarre defense of the President has struck a lot of people as funny, at least in the peculiar sense if not the ha-ha sense, and Kevin Siers makes a nice meld of Ryan’s loyal explanation that his party’s figurehead is simply incompetent with Trump’s delusional sense of self-importance.It’s an example of a style […]
(June 8) (June 9)Yesterday, I said to a friend that I keep wanting to just blog about funny cartoons but the politics of the moment are so compelling that I can’t avoid them.Today is that avoidance, in part because what happened yesterday was so obvious that the cartoons about it add little insight.The other reason […]
Once again a Prickly City strip defies lead time constraints, thanks to a situation that feels both predictable and insoluable. There is a chance that Scott Stantis will get his tail in a crack one day, that some event will shake things up to the point where he’s suddenly stuck with a lineup of strips that […]
Keith Knight touches on a topic that has been big news around here, only not about deer.As you may have seen on the wire services, we had a family of bears in Hanover become enough of a nuisance that they needed, well, an intervention.Mother and adolescent boys had gone from raiding Dumpsters to breaking into […]
Hard to know where to start today, but Matt Wuerker does a nice job of pairing a viral bit of popular trivia with a serious ongoing crisis.The fellow from Alberta who was photographed calmly mowing his lawn as a massive tornado ripped through his community explained later that he was keeping an eye on it […]
So the answer to last week’s question is, as I suspected, that Tina has left the restaurant in order to expand her universe, and congrats to Rina Piccolo for recognizing the difference between Tina’s Groove and Tina’s Rut.Comic strips need to establish a groove. They do not need to dig themselves into a rut.But I […]
Today’s BC brings up the least important connection of the day, but brace yourself because today is going to be a festival of personal but irrelevant commentary.Yesterday, as we walked our dogs by the Connecticut River, fishing came up and I mentioned night fishing for bullheads, and that it involved worms, a fire, cigars and […]
Yesterday pretty much wrapped up the Paris Accord/Trump Isolationism sequence in my mind. More cartoons are drifting in, but, as is so often the case, the first burst contained both the obvious ones and the truly inspired and from there out it’s all chaff.The other yawner at this stage is the Kathy Griffin thing. I […]
Top honors today go to Clay Bennett, for his depiction of the entire world accepting and preparing for a crisis, and one foolish, solitary figure stubbornly heading the opposite direction.Bennett’s chief weapon is his deadpan delivery. He rarely adds a wink, and here there might have been a temptation to have at least one animal looking […]
Jeff Stahler does a nice job of exploiting the joke of the day in a manner that ties it into an actual event, since the Scripps National Spelling Bee is, in fact, happening as we speak.Someone criticized him on Facebook for taking up such a silly moment, and I’ve seen a couple of complaints that, […]