Yesterday pretty much wrapped up the Paris Accord/Trump Isolationism sequence in my mind. More cartoons are drifting in, but, as is so often the case, the first burst contained both the obvious ones and the truly inspired and from there out it’s all chaff.The other yawner at this stage is the Kathy Griffin thing. I […]
Top honors today go to Clay Bennett, for his depiction of the entire world accepting and preparing for a crisis, and one foolish, solitary figure stubbornly heading the opposite direction.Bennett’s chief weapon is his deadpan delivery. He rarely adds a wink, and here there might have been a temptation to have at least one animal looking […]
Jeff Stahler does a nice job of exploiting the joke of the day in a manner that ties it into an actual event, since the Scripps National Spelling Bee is, in fact, happening as we speak.Someone criticized him on Facebook for taking up such a silly moment, and I’ve seen a couple of complaints that, […]
Bob Gorrell offers one of many conservative takes on White House leakage. As I’ve noted before, the shenanigans of the Trump administration have alienated a lot of the GOP’s regular supporters, and Gorrell tends to be conservative.In this case, he’s also being responsible and accurate, which makes his work stand out, and that’s a shame. The […]
What better way to begin a conversation about sophomoric speculation than with a few sample panels from the newest installment of Existential Comics, which teams Camus, Sartre and de Beauvoir in a deeply meaningful, utterly ridiculous conversation about the futility of existence?The ongoing running gag in Existential Comics is a lampoon of those serious discussions […]
Frequent visitors to this blog know two things: One is that I don’t think much of awards and plaques and so forth. Too many subjective factors are involved and the main thing an award accomplishes is to impress employers and potential clients, and even that isn’t foolproof in this era of cloth-eared editors and short-sighted beancounters.The other […]
Friend of the Blog Ann Telnaes won the Reuben last night, or, more precisely, “the Reuben Award for Outstanding Cartoonist of the Year.” (The other awards are technically not “Reubens” though they all get called that.)And she deserved it. And, yes, I’m prejudiced.And isn’t it nice when personal prejudice is backed up by outrageously good […]
Pat Bagley picks up on a theme I’ve mentioned here a few times recently, which is that the spread of hostility and division began with the advent of talk radio when the FCC ended the Fairness Doctrine. A decade or so later, the Internet became user-friendly and ubiquitous enough that haters and borderline psychopaths could find […]
Soup to Nutz has grown considerably in the last few years. From a kind of standard “kids picking on each other” gag strip, Rick Stromoski has brought it into a strip where dumb kids say unintentionally smart things.Today’s strip is a good example, because I’m all in favor of NASA exploration.Not only is it cool, […]
Before I launch into today’s topic, a thanks to David Fitzsimmons for his depiction of the stupidest thing I’ve come across lately.I recently cut back my cable and got Roku to save a little money on the stations I actually wanted, and it’s changed my viewing habits such that I’ve been catching news on CNN […]
Let’s start the day today with an odd but so-far wonderful story arc at Retail.Several weeks ago, Marla’s insufferable assistant manager, Brice, accepted a job at Delman’s, the other department store anchor in the mall. The joke was that their boss, Stuart, had been about to offer him a management position elsewhere, but off he went […]
I often start the day with something silly, but I’ll reverse that to feature this Cartoon Movement piece by Agim Sulaj, an Albanian cartoonist currently living just across the street in Remini, Italy.”Perhaps if we listened to our children more, this world would be a better place,” he comments, and the fact that he doesn’t tie […]
Turkish cartoonist Halit Kurtulmus Aytoslu is not the only cartoonist to file a quick overnight response to the bombing at an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester last night.However, he makes the most profound statement, neither simply weeping nor raging in abstract defiance.There is in these moments the dichotomy Shakespeare described in Macbeth, when MacDuff learns his […]
Yes, that would be a good name for a band. Meanwhile, it’s also a good theme for the day, taken from Robert Burns’ classic poem about a prideful woman in church who doesn’t realize the people behind her are not admiring her fashionable beauty but watching a louse crawl around on her.Let’s start with a Juxtaposition: (Omar Al […]
As if to inflame a simmering controversey in the comments of a few days back, Paul Gilligan offers Poncho a choice of super powers and he picks one that would of course place him in the Alternate Comestible Universe, a series that Marvel will be launching next month.It consists of 12 variant editions released every week […]