The thoughts I wrote about on youth and writing yesterday had been bouncing around for a few weeks, but came into focus when I read JP Trostle’s “Nautilus,” a graphic memoir of his mother’s death and the extended mountain of stuff she left behind.It was a moment of “Yes – this is what I mean!”This […]
Let’s ease into the day with a Nick Anderson cartoon pointing out something we all knew: The man is a pathological liar.Permit me to elaborate:There are people like OJ Simpson or Jeff MacDonald who, under the severe stress of horror, respond by creating an alternative reality. That’s lying in the sense of telling a story […]
Drew Sheneman leads off by confronting the notion that lowering taxes will encourage reinvestment in a business.It seems like utter nonsense, but it’s at least a debatable economic theory.As long as we leave out logic, history and human nature.What is not debatable is the fakery of speeches from Dear Leader declaring that companies which have […]
No, Carmen, you didn’t.And be careful what you wish for anyway.It seems odd to be coming back from a day that was not only full of three-dimensional real-world distractions but in which even Facebook, that repository of confrontational misinformation, had turned for the moment into family photos and warmth.It was a pleasant respite, but coffee break’s […]
How old fashioned? This old fashioned. My dad made Christmas cards each year back before a whole lot of technical advances, and here is the plate from his 1951 card to prove it. If you mouse over it, you’ll see that I slugged it “cut” because that’s what graphics were referred to back in the […]
Jeremy gets grief in today’s Zits, but he brings back some memories for me, plus a little gratitude that my mother was a lot more mellow than his.While Christmas Day is, indeed, a huge family celebration, it seems to crest pretty early in the morning, fade in midafternoon and then just kind of peter out […]
So Animatronic Trump has come to Earth and I’m blaming Ray.Animatronic Trump is nearly as scary as the real one. I’ve never been to the Hall of Presidents or the Magic Kingdom at all, though I did visit Disneyland back when I was 9 and Donnie was 13, before Disneyland began banning men with long […]
An update courtesy of Johanna Draper Carlson on the ongoing infringement suit brought by Dr. Seuss’s estate against Comicmix, which ran a Kickstarter to fund a book called “Oh The Places You’ll Boldly Go,” based on the Seuss piece of nearly the same title and Star Trek.This illustration is from the complaint, which goes into […]
We’ll start the day with Mike Thompson’s piece, which strikes a nice balance between stupid mistletoe jokes and the self-bashing overcorrections of other cartoonists.Male cartoonists seem to really be struggling with this thing. There’s really nothing funny about it, and it’s the kind of topic — most civil rights issues are — where making jokes […]
I was just going to stick this Kevin Siers cartoon in towards the end of the posting. It’s about the owner of the Carolina Panthers football team being investigated by the NFL for #METOO issues and deciding to sell the team.Which is interesting, yes, and his blowing town won’t stop the team from being responsible […]
The Good News first: As seen in this cartoon by Australian cartoonist Glen Le Lievre, Eaten Fish, the young Iranian cartoonist imprisoned in an Australian detention camp, has been freed and taken to an undisclosed safe city in Northern Europe.I wrote about Eaten Fish in this February posting about press freedom and responsibility.A lot of […]
(Andy Marlette) (Pat Bagley)Bagley and Marlette have some fun with the attempt to subvert Mueller’s investigation, based on the fact that two members of his team exchanged personal emails in which they expressed disgust with Donald Trump. And Bernie Sanders.And Eric Holder.And Martin O’Malley.And John Kasich.For which Mueller promptly fired the one who was still on […]
Here is what I guess may prove to be Lee Judge’s final political cartoon.He’s been cut loose by the Kansas City Star after 37 years, which at least earned him the right to do a farewell column, which you can read at Bado’s Blog.In addition to reproducing Judge’s column, Bado offers a selection of Judge’s […]
(Sherman’s Lagoon) (Rudy Park)And so it begins. Time for the Baby Boomers to shuffle off this mortal coil and let Gen X take the spotlight, poor bastards.Sherman makes the cultural references while Rudy takes the viewpoint and it’s music to my weary old ears. Now we can just f-f-f-f-fade away. It’s really happening and I know that […]
Okay, one political piece, and only because Bad Reporter is consistently silly, even when he’s right on. It is beyond me how anybody can put Omarosa on his staff and then throw a term like “lightweight” at another woman, or another man, or a piece of furniture.But I did notice that, while there were multiple signatures […]