Let’s get the Aleppo kid out of the way early, Antonio Rodriguez Garcia having swept the category with this depiction.Melding his blank astonishment with the open-eyed naivete of le Petit Prince is brilliant because his story is less about him than about the questions he asks and the answers we offer.Plenty of cartoonists have adapted […]

Political cartoons aren’t required to be funny and it’s rare that they go beyond a chuckle, but Jimmy Margulies scores a genuine laugh today.It’s scary stuff if you take it seriously, but that only makes the joke funnier, because it adds to the “oh, what the hell” atmosphere.Margulies offers one of the few takes on […]

I’ll start with the fun, easy one: Bliss.I don’t know Harry Bliss (though he lives right next door in Vermont), but this has the hallmarks of a comic drawn from life.For one thing, another cartoonist has long since confessed to me that he used to sing the Velvet Underground’s “Sunday Morning” to his baby, so I’m […]

Over at Between Friends, Susan’s been obsessing over having been addressed as “ma’am,” yet another installment in her ongoing and seemingly permanent obsession over age and self-image. Having her vent to Maeve is perfect, because, while Maeve has a substantial package of insecurities, that certainly isn’t one of them.However, the whole “ma’am” thing apparently is pretty […]

Today’s posting is mostly a collection of other places you should go instead, but I’ll start with this Nick Anderson cartoon which, if you’ve been keeping up with the news, stands alone.And if you haven’t been keeping up with the news, go here and ensmarten yourself. And let me add here that the Daily 202 […]

Cartoon Movement features Portuguese cartoonist Vasco Gargalo’s “Aleppo,” an updating of Picasso’s classic “Guernica.”I’ll admit that my initial response was tepid, though I appreciated the historic parallel, in which the destruction of Guernica presaged the horrors of World War II.But the more I pondered that parallel, the more I liked it, so that, the second time […]

Between Friends introduces today’s theme of “self-image and self-deception,” and I wonder, not how many hair dressers will clip-and-post it, because it’s a natural for them, but how many will stick it up in the back room for their own amusement versus sticking it up where the customers can see it.One different between a barber […]

Here’s one page of a longer Lauren Weinstein cartoon about children and memories, and how nice it would be if we could ensure that our kids remembered the good things.Go read the rest; it’s not all that long and it’s worth the time.A hat tip to Sarah Laing for that, and hardly surprising, since it […]

I’m not sure what significance, if any, those “we cannot be held responsible” signs actually have, but Danae is intent on finding out in the current Non Sequitur story arc. The most common sighting in my world is in supermarket parking lots, where the store cannot be held responsible for damage done to your car by […]

Pat Bagley is hardly the first, let alone the only, one to mock the logical gymnastics required of Trump loyalists lately, but he did it well and that’s an important part of the task: Not just to have an idea, but to convey it.There is, after all, a “tree falling in the desert” element to a […]

The traditional “How We Know It’s Canadian” example in cartooning is the red mailboxes in “For Better or For Worse,” one of the ways in which Lynn Johnston famously declined to strip FBOFW of its roots or, if you like, its Roots.Today’s Ben also betrays the fact that the strip is Canadian and, even moreso, […]

Sometimes more is more, as witness the latest K Chronicles, in which Keith Knight takes on the “in my day” statement of Clint Eastwood.He’s not the first cartoonist to go after Eastwood’s remarks, and it should be noted that the statement itself is so overwhelmingly foolish as to invite both refutation and ridicule. There are a […]

The first point to ponder today came from Rip Kirby, who is being targeted by a rich, beautiful woman who has asked for his help with an extortion threat, but we know she’s setting him up, and now he has apparently tumbled to the scam, or, at least, he knows it’s not all kosher.What struck me this morning […]

  Let’s warm up with Wumo, which raises the question, if this is what Heaven is like, how bad could Hell be?Maybe the one in Hell asks for specific dates, credit card numbers, etc. And note that the one for Heaven is on a clipboard. The one in Hell is on-line, which sounds much better — […]

Pajama Diaries has always provided me with smiles, as Jill works within the home-office atmosphere I adopted for many years. But as the girls morph into teens, it’s taking on new elements of nostalgia. Jill (and cartoonist Terri Libenson) have a pair of girls while I had a pair of boys, but there are plenty […]