Here comes the king,A body beneath a crown,It’s said he cannot even tie his shoes …That’s from a very funny play I was in, back in summer camp. I wish I remembered the whole song, because it’s been running through my mind recently and for earworms, as with the kind in apples, the only thing […]

I’m going to start off with the trivial, personal stuff, and, as I’ve said before, I could run all of Terri Libenson’s “College Search” cartoons from Pajama Diaries, because either she and I have some unique mojo or she’s simply nailing this one for everyone. I suspect the latter but would believe the former.I will […]

This morning’s Candorville appealed to me because I am very, very old, and a lot older than Susan or Lemont.I’ve had a couple of “boy are you old” moments lately, including last night when I went to a Charlottesville support rally at Dartmouth and remembered why, back in the Olden Days, I was a freak, […]

Lalo Alcaraz wasted no time in getting out his pens to satirize the “Whatchagonnado?” response that greeted the Nazi riots in Charlottesville.Dunno where that idea came from, unless it had something to do with this:”We condemn in the strongest possible terms this egregious display of hatred, bigotry and violence, on many sides. On many sides. […]

No let-up in the flood of “two crazy guys” cartoons, so we’ll take a stroll in another direction today:Today’s Reply All — part of an arc on the topic — makes me feel good about something, or maybe it doesn’t. I’m not sure.A woman whom I dated for several years taught me, among other worthwhile […]

There are other things going on in the world than “two insane nitwits waving nuclear weapons,” and Phil Hands takes note of the promises of Foxxcon in Wisconsin.Which, like Jack and the Beanstalk and so much more, relies on people believing things they really ought not to. Jack emerged from the story a hero, but he […]

At a time when all the editorial cartoons are starting to look alike, Dwane Powell wins for “copying” on purpose.For non-comic-historians and youngsters under 60 generally, here’s the classic Ron Cobb cartoon he’s riffing on.It first ran in the LA Free Press in 1966, but I saw it in a book of Phil Ochs sheet music, […]

(A little break in format to comment on the current brouhaha. This is a story from Southern Nigeria that I retold in 2005, with an illustration by Marina “RinaCat” Tay.) Many years ago, the king of Calabar was not just king of the people but also of all the animals that crawled and walked and swam […]

Michael de Adder penned this cartoon shortly before the threats became two-sided, but it remains the most spot-on commentary so far, because a major question is at what point Trump loyalists will shudder and pull back.And the answer appears to be that they’re as nuts as he is. Our best hope at the moment is […]

xkcd couldn’t have hit me with this one at a better time. My inbox management is bad enough, but after two back-to-back road trips, it’s totally out of control and, while I don’t quite feel a need to craft a long, sincere response to everything in it, I do suffer from “I’ll take a look at […]

 This David Sipress cartoon from the New Yorker has popped up a couple of times on Facebook, and it set me to trying to remember the small collection of CDs I gave my younger son when he was first out from under my roof. I know for sure it went beyond all these begats to […]

The first, which applies to a couple of people, is that I suspect some cartoonists have switched from pen-and-ink to tablets.Actually, I know that several have made the switch, but what I have come to suspect recently is that some have done so perhaps on cheaper tablets or … I dunno … don’t have the […]

“It’s like you’re looking through our windows” is a comment that cartoonists who specialize in family and relationship comics often hear from readers. It isn’t a cliche, but rather a sign that they’re hitting the target.Comics that connect on a personal level are particularly welcome in the midst of a political crisis when it all […]

Amid several other cartoonists’ attempts, Jeff Stahler gets the best perspective on the phony phone call issue.This isn’t a particularly profound cartoon, but attempts to place the claim in more profound contexts have fallen flat, I think because they’ve attempted to put the President’s lies in a rational setting that goes beyond the self-preservation instincts […]

This morning’s Barney & Clyde fits in with several discussions I’ve had recently and a couple I’ve avoided because it would be futile.The specific key-in is a conversation about dog food, because the plethora of “this brand will kill your dog” postings on social media suggests a little corporate meddling in things. People who champion […]