Every time I feature “Existential Comics,” I end up putting in a disclaimer about whether you have to be a philosophy major to get the joke. So, to keep up that tradition, let me say that you don’t have to have had more than a faint brush with existentialism to find “Existential Werewolves” — of […]

I’ve just finished making reservations to be at this symposium at the University of Minnesota next month, and I’ll cover it here but, if you’re anywhere within range, you’d do well to be there yourself.The occasion, the 30th anniversary of the landmark Hustler v Falwell decision that brought the 1st Amendment into focus for editorial cartoonists, […]

Jeff Danziger comments on the upcoming talks between Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un, and if you have wondered how far off the mark the Trump Amateur Hour can wander, this is a pretty good example, because the State Department has been hemorrhaging unreplaced talent faster than the White House and, while a meeting like […]

Tom the Dancing Bug steps forward to stop me from deleting from my bookmarks an entire category of editorial cartoons. I’ve said before that I am losing patience with “bland restatement,” those altie cartoons in which people simply restate in simple terms the things people in power are really saying.It may be an age thing: I’ve […]

(Red and Rover) (Bliss)Yesterday was a snow day, which is rare for someone who works at home, but we woke up to over a foot of snow and the dog was no more interested in going out than I was. So, after the plow had cleared our driveway, I went out once to run an […]

There are several sinking ship cartoons out there, but I particularly like Tim Eagan’s take because of the captain’s blissful ignorance, accented by the fact that we find, in the second panel, that he is dangling at 90 degrees, which emphasizes his serious disregard of reality.Constant readers will, however, wince in anticipation of yet one […]

The eyes of everyone were on Texas last night, and RJ Matson plays with the big question, which was turnout. While there is some speculation that Ted Cruz could lose his seat in the general election next fall, the primaries were seen more as a general bellwether to indicate how the nation is going as […]

(Non Sequitur) (Candorville)We lead off today with a Juxtaposition, in which Danae and Susan explore the idea that you can relieve the stress by not focusing on all the depressing things going on around you.Lemont provides the counterargument.I’m not entirely against Danae’s contention that you create a lot of stress by continually framing arguments. My […]

Back from a quick road trip, and the fact that I wrote yesterday’s post in advance means I couldn’t feature this Edison Lee Sunday piece.I particularly like the last panel, which is excellent but not in a hopeful way. “Excellent” in depicting what we’re gonna do about it, which is to accept what we’re given.Maybe […]

Eight-five years ago yesterday, suffragists seized upon the inauguration of Woodrow Wilson to stage a major march in Washington. While they had hardly planned for it to be disruptive, the bad behavior of the mostly-male crowds, plus the lack of adequate response by the Washington police force, touched off a scandal that brought many Americans […]

With the resignation of Hope Hicks, there have been several cartoons about the revolving White House door. I like Walt Handelsman’s because it both names the dearly departed and depicts the resulting void and even takes a slap at the president’s grasp of reality, which is a factor in all this.I’m still reading “Fire and […]

While I was poking around in 1913 looking for something you’ll see Sunday, I came across these pieces which you’ll see now.They’re by a fellow named Rube Goldberg, of whom I think it might be said that he “was a Pulitzer Prize winning cartoonist best known for his zany invention cartoon” and very likely was.He’s […]

No theme today, just various things that struck me, and so let’s start with the most various of them, which is Steve Breen’s commentary on the resignation of SeaWorld’s CEO. Apparently, he’d been ruining his Armani suits by despondently scraping against the walls of his office.I like the way SeaWorld explained this to stockholders: With improving operating […]

There’s a lot going on in the world and it’s tempting to just throw some pies, squirt a little seltzer and take a break from it all, but, then again, we’re at a moment when not talking politics is in itself a political gesture.Still, we can take a moment to watch Mr. Fitz attempt to […]

Edison Lee is early in the stages of a fantasy arc about the first moon landing, and I’m leading with it because I just finished editing a piece about Saturday’s “Girls and Science” program at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science. Which puts all sorts of ironies all over that last panel. Orville is less […]