Our theme today, to the extent that we have one, will be about people whose company you didn’t want anyway, and what better lead off than dear little Agnes trying to be a social success?And dear little Trout, ever the Greek chorus of uncomfortable truth.Agnes and Trout are part of a tradition of madcap girls, […]

If we can’t run our own country competently, we can at least provide amusement for the rest of the planet, and Zapiro provides a handy guide for his fellow Africans to their new neighbor, Nambia. And, by the way, if you want to go visit beautiful Nambia, you can refuel your plane in Puerto Rico, because […]

Tjeerd Royaards offers this thoughtful take on one of the more interesting stories of the week, the reversal of Saudi Arabia’s ban on women drivers.Saudi Arabia was the only country in the world that didn’t allow women to drive, but Royaards nails the fact that the change is only incremental.The turn signal is a bit […]

Hugh Hefner has died, leaving behind a very mixed and difficult heritage, well covered here and so I’m not going to get too deeply into it, except that he set the standard for James Bond: Polite, educated, suave and considerate, but then exploitive and superficial. And a terrific market for cartoonists.Not Bond; Hefner. The best description of […]

While we wait for the rest of the Take A Knee cartoons to drift in, here’s today’s Prickly City, which is less entertaining for the particular strip itself as it is for the look inside the mind of a thoughtful conservative.”Thoughtful Conservative” sounds like an oxymoron but is more of an endangered minority. Granted, if […]

Today’s offering really is just one huge Juxtaposition, and I had trouble knowing where to start. Ann Telnaes won the lead position for best setting the overall mood without arguing a specific point.That sounds like damning with faint praise, but it takes a safecracker’s touch to make a statement this piercing without getting distracted by […]

We’ll start and end with a cartoon-invoked memory today, and Mother Goose & Grimm fits right in with hurricane season, because in the late ’90s, a hurricane tore apart schools in Antigua and I ended up leading an effort among newspaper education programs to assist.My counterpart there was able to skirt the usual security problems […]

Dear Leader’s Friday night off-script tirade drove Steve Artley to his drawing table for this commentary, which shows Trump taking a knee to protest and reject the burden placed upon him.For those who missed it, Trump, who can see the good side of Nazis who chant anti-Semitic slogans, expressed no such tolerance for anyone who […]

Here’s a scheduling insight, at least for the print end of the business:The Sunday paper being, in most markets, two or three or more times the size of the daily paper, the sections which can be printed in advance — chiefly Features, Classifieds and Editorial — are often done Friday in the late afternoon and […]

Canadian Gary Clement sums up international response to Dear Leader’s UN speech, with his own blind self-satisfaction being what makes the cartoon click.Every world leader is surrounded by sycophants, but I wonder how many hand-pick them for just that reason? There is something very Third Worldish about this, and that observation doesn’t change the situation. At […]

(Clay Jones) (Rob Rogers)I wasn’t sure which of these to lead with, so here’s a Juxtaposition in alphabetical order, on the topic of bringing out Sean Spicer as the punchline to Stephen Colbert’s Emmy monologue, which you can see here.You can scroll back from there and watch the whole monologue, but I thought it was […]

The whole world was watching, but French cartoonist Anne Derenne captured it best. I’ll come back to this after things settle in a little and a few more cartoons have appeared, but, in the meantime, she’s worked past the nonsensical rhetoric and seized upon the kernel of what that speech was about. We can parse the specifics, […]

David Horsey writes an appreciation of the musical “Hamilton,” praising the way it purposefully departs from a true historical setting in order to illuminate the timeless issues its real-world characters faced.Which may be the case (I haven’t seen it), and I don’t have a problem, for instance, with productions of “Hamlet” set in modern totalitarian […]

Matt Wuerker on the pending demise of competent, professional journalism, with a cartoon that both delights me and leaves me dismayed.He’s certainly right that journalism is in a world of hurt, though I hope he is only mourning the fact that people have free access to the news, and not blaming them for taking advantage […]

John Cole leads off today because, though this is a national cartoon, the Pennsylvania cartoonist hit with a local cartoon for those of us in New Hampshire.In case you missed it — and the Washington Post has a lovely editorial on it — Cole nails this utter nitwittery, which is that Kobach is head of […]