Clay Jones nails it.I’m glad he falls where he does on my daily run-through, because I’d seen several “Putin’s Puppet” cartoons, and, while some were quite good, they just didn’t blow my mind.They offered a lot of comforting of the afflicted without doing much to afflict the comfortable, because Trump supporters simply shrug off such […]
Mr. Fitz gave me a bit of a nostalgia jolt, plus (once more) the wish I’d had him for a teacher.When I was in sixth grade, we were all entered in an essay contest for someone or other, for which I wrote a piece about Buddy, the first Seeing Eye Dog.My teacher took me aside […]
Grand Avenue cites a common complaint, the over-long lead time on major holidays, such that, for instance, Halloween candy appears in the stores before Labor Day.The big one is Christmas because, O Best Beloved, there was once a time when Santa Claus arrived in town as the guest of honor in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day […]
“At least three-quarters of the guys are out to pick up a girl, and get into bed with her. And the sad thing is that that have so little self-respect that they will tell all their ‘frat brothers’ about their real — or, more often, totally fictional — experiences in great detail. Now comes the […]
As Barbie once said, “Math is hard!” and understanding economics is math. But I think Tom Toles breaks down the essentials here in more ways than one.There was, indeed, a point when my taxes could have been done on a postcard: I had no income except from a single employer and no kids at home, […]
I don’t often like Pearly Gates cartoons, but Andy Marlette employs the overused imagery to comment, not necessarily on the Texas church shooting, but on the phenomenon in general, and it’s both apt and chillingly funny.In a way, it kind of turns the Pearly Gates meme on its head, because we often see it in […]
I was going to open with all the reasons we might better put the heaving mess aside for the day, but decided instead to simply put the heaving mess aside for the day, and rise, instead, on a point of personal privilege, because …Johanna Draper Carlson reports that “Dennis the Menace in Hawaii” is being […]
So I got home Sunday night, tired after a 6 hour drive, and flipped on the computer to check email and Facebook, which is probably why today’s Baby Blues made me laff.Yesterday was mostly mop-up and catching up on sleep, but I did have plenty of time to stew over our collective stupidity.All the way […]
The last event of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists convention was a dinner and awards ceremony for which I put on a tie for the first time in a couple of years, but that symbolizes much of what I liked so much about this convention: You were expected to wash behind your ears for […]
The last day of the American Association of Editorial Cartoonists’ conference consisted of the membership meeting in the morning, which is serious stuff but not of general interest, and the dinner and awards at the end, which I’ll cover tomorrow, because the big slice in the middle was an appearance by the editorial bigwigs from […]
The second day of the American Association of Editorial Cartoonists convention was a little more laid back, which was a good thing after the density of the first day’s panels. (Though, again, this is written in haste, barely edited, and you’ll have to Google where I’ve failed to add links)Most of the events are happening […]
This was a ridiculously full day, and there’s nothing wrong with that but, as dense as this entry may seem, I’m only going to be able to skim the surface. We were getting a lot of information with a few 15 minute breaks and it was both entertaining and intense.The day began with a double […]
This isn’t exactly a Juxtaposition, but it did juxtapose with a conversation I had with a cartoonist yesterday as we rode the shuttle from the hotel to the opening reception of the American Association of Editorial Cartoonists’ convention.Grand Avenue makes a joke that, while not entirely aligned with Donald Trump Jr.’s sarcastic Twitter threat is […]
Well, yes and no.Scott Stantis poses a question that feels like it assumes part of the answer.I’m old enough to remember Watergate with some clarity, having been in my 20s, but I’ll defer to my mother, who was that age during World War II and, as I have often quoted her, once admonished me by […]
One must acknowledge the day, or the night, and Monty rose above the many “trick or treating as Trump” cartoons to put little Montague in a Milton Friedman costume, which is much more frightening because so many in Congress snicker at the one but truly believe — against all experience and logic — in the […]