After the shortest retirement in history, or, more precisely, in lieu of it, former New Yorker Cartoon Editor Bob Mankoff has become Esquire Magazine Cartoon Editor Bob Mankoff. The press release is interesting without being indiscreet, but the cartoon Mankoff drew to go with it suggests that he’s happy to be out of a job he […]
Serbian cartoonist Predrag Srbljanin marks May 1 with a reminder that it has been a full century since the Russian revolution freed the workers and that the march towards the Workers’ Paradise hasn’t exactly set any speed records.My initial, five-in-the-morning reaction was that I hadn’t remembered it was the centennary of International Workers’ Day, but a […]
Phew! Just when I was burning out on politics, funny page cartoonists came through with a slew of good, non-political inspiration!Pen DropStart with one I have nothing to comment upon: Today’s Rhymes with Orange.This is just … nah, I’ve got nothin’ but “Wow.”She been hangin’ around with Sergio Aragones or something? John Cullen Murphy is tearin’ me […]
Mike Marland specializes in regional New Hampshire commentary, but got off a good 100 Days cartoon that sums up more than the presidency.What’s that phrase conservatives use to derail civil rights policies? “The soft bigotry of low expectations”?Yeah, well, there ya go. We were so sure Trump wouldn’t be able to keep any of his […]
Today’s Loose Parts is delightfully meta.Larson’s 1984 gag played on the fact that the whole notion of opposable thumbs was something we learned in biology class and then didn’t even file away: We just tossed it into the junk drawer of our minds until the moment it became his punchline.And it worked so well for Larson […]
In case you thought only America was trapped in the Looking Glass world, here’s French cartoonist Anne Derenne on the appointment of Saudi Arabia to the UN Women’s Rights Commission, a development so astonishingly absurd that everyone from TownHall to Teen Vogue is gob-smacked. UN Watch Executive Director Hillel Neuer’s tweet is being quoted widely, and the UN Watch […]
Let’s start the conversation with Tom Tomorrow, whose overall analysis of the Trump administration pleases me mostly because it skips recurring, tired gripes to discuss overall strategies.He is noted for his year-end wrap-up specials and this feels like a mini-version. He doesn’t mention the 100 Day mark and it’s not clear he had it at all in mind, […]
Zits made me laugh, but I quickly realized it’s a bit out of date, since over-controlling mothers these days are not foiled by distance.I’m not sure I accept the helicopter parent horror stories of college administrators — that is, I believe they happen, but I suspect they aren’t so frequent as to be typical.Or, as the […]
Dave Coverly is very old.He’s sooo old that he remembers toy surprises in cereal, as seen in today’s Speed Bump.Though he’s not so old that the toy surprise in the bird feeder looks semi worth having, which makes it seem he’s only my kids’ age and not mine. At the risk of being an old man, […]
Yesterday’s sermonette on Photoshopping old comics reminded me of another source of originals, which is the Library of Congress, and, specifically, this collection of classic Blondies, with Blondie’s wedding something of a centerpiece. As noted when I interviewed Dean Young in 2002, “Blondie’s marriage revived the fading strip,” and it became a colossos of the […]
I was listening to a Friday news roundup on public radio yesterday and, when they got to the Jeff Sessions segment, one of them called it “the best item of the week” and they all started laughing.Pat Bagley isn’t the only cartoonist to jump on this wounded duck of a target, but I like his […]
One of the reasons Darrin Bell pops up here so often is that we think a lot alike and another is that he draws two strips and an editorial cartoon, so the odds of him hitting me squarely on any given day are pretty good.But today’s Candorville was a marvel of synchronicity, because just two […]
Chan Lowe boils it down.There are a lot of cartoonists currently mocking Kim’s haircut and portraying him as a nutcase, but Lowe is at least hinting at the real issue in all this:Bluster.Here’s the thing: Unless you are knowledgeable about Korean culture, you don’t likely have any sense of how Kim’s take on the world […]
This is one of those Lord-Where-Do-I-Start days, and Ann Telnaes has won the toss for this salute to our impossibly-not-okay presidency.Her cartoon is not so much a case of being “too smart for the room” as of being “too well-informed for the room,” because she had to append Cliff Notes:Ivanka Trump’s company received provisional approval from the Chinese […]
Not sure if this is the start of an arc or a one-off, but Pajama Diaries has had an ongoing story that pops up now and then about Ben, who is autistic, and Terri Libenson has been handling it with a nice combination of sympathy, homework and humor.It’s a tough balancing act, because, while you can’t […]