(Baby Blues) (Between Friends)I’ve wanted to ratchet things down a bit here without re-introducing the Lenten Political Fast, and how better than to start the week with a Juxtaposition of Warm Parental Feelings from each end of the process.As often as you might say, “Oh, I wish this moment could last forever,” I was always interested […]

Kevin Kallaugher serves up a good summary of where we’re at, which is that it’s all become incredibly annoying, but that the squabbling in one car is less self-destructive than the squabbling in the other.However this comes out, the Democratic Party will emerge intact, while the Republicans … well, the Republicans had a “we gotta fix […]

Tax time is one of those Annual Mandatory Cartooning Occasions, but, while a lot of cartoonists simply turn in a “shirt off my back” strip and take the day off, others get some funny stuff out of it.Frazz manages to turn the vagaries of this year’s calendar into a gag that combines a general joke […]

Prickly City demonstrates how you cover a campaign when you have to factor in lead time. Whatever happened in the intervening days, Stantis was unlikely to have to back off this one. I didn’t watch last night’s debate, in large part because, if I stay up for that, you don’t get this, but also because it seems […]

Sigh. And here I thought we were going to have a rant-free, look-what-made-me-laff day. And then Hilary Price went and drew this RWO.I’m a fan of dog rescue. But, boy oh boy, it sure is well past the point where cave canem and caveat emptor cross over.I have had Rhodesian ridgebacks for the past 30 […]

Fowl Language starts off the day with a cartoon I like, even though it’s directed at people like me.I don’t like IMs and I’m certainly not very good at texting and the two factors are not unconnected. If I enjoyed it, I’d do it more often and then I’d be better at it.But I don’t, so […]

(Matt Davies) (Jen Sorensen)Reponse to the Panama Papers has been pretty much all over the place, and this juxtaposition represents what I think is the best reaction so far, threading the needle between expecting the revelations to touch off a firestorm and dismissing it with the Will Rogers’ faux-wisdom of “they all do it.”Neither Davies nor […]

Start with the fun one.I like the idea of schools having kids order books, but, like the mom in today’s Andertoons, I kind of questioned the quality standards in the flyers the kids brought home.Not only were the items offered not always what I considered “books,” (and sticker books weren’t the worst of that), but the […]

Stuart Carlson explains the past week’s coverage.I’m not sure which to be less forgiving of in political commentary: Unthinking vitriol or sheer laziness.The notion that editors stir things up “to sell papers” is nonsense, but the analogy of a rock band is not: It isn’t a matter of how many tickets you sell, it’s a […]

(Speed Bump)(Bizarro)The Juxtaposition of the Day is, placed in this order, a sort of case study over time.A third element is this article that has just surfaced, “Fifty psychological and psychiatric terms to avoid: a list of inaccurate, misleading, misused, ambiguous, and logically confused words and phrases,” which you can tell is serious because it has […]

“Why, yes, they are. That’s why I wear the cape.”Harry Bliss on a crossover between yoga pants and Underoos, to which I just added a punchline that could cost me my Man Card,  because one of the things we’re not supposed to let slip is that yoga pants are not pants. They are tights. Shhhh.The […]

It’s a tribute to fear how often You Damn Kid drags me back to my traumatic days of Catholic school, because I only had two years of it, and I barely remember kindergarten, which must mean it was okay, given how permanently first grade is engraved upon my psyche.Most of what I remember about first grade […]

The current election may go down in history as an anomaly to be quoted forevermore, as in “except for 2016.”The other possibility is that it may end up as “beginning in 2016.”Either way, for all the curve balls thus far, Jeff Danziger didn’t need a crystal ball to make this prediction, though, rather than wondering […]

International cartoons tend to be more metaphorical, more “here’s what it is,” while American cartoons are more apt to tell a story, “Here’s what it means.”At the moment, I think the International cartoonists have the edge in commenting on the Panama Papers, an example here being the moral compass of Italian cartoonist Enrico Bertuciolli, which […]

(Piranha Club) (Non Sequitur)Leading off the day, and the week, with a pair of starts to story arcs that could prove fun.If you follow Piranha Club, you probably have a taste for the silly, and there are times when Bud Grace doesn’t even try to hide his own flair for same. This appears to be […]