Mike Lynch notes the Toonseum in Pittsburgh’s current exhibition, “Draw Me,” which examines the various cartooning courses offered over the years, back when newspapers and magazines were full of cartoons and, well, back when America was full of newspapers and magazines.America was also full of cigarette smoke back then, and the iconic matchbook inviting you to […]
First, an opening prayer, led not by Pope Francis but by Brother Leo, the gentle innocent in the strip. We’ll continue this theme in our closing hymn, but, meanwhile, my apologies for addressing other themes this morning.I wish I could be half the fool Brother Leo is. In the meantime, I’ll settle for being silly, and Mike […]
David Sipress jumped the line with a cartoon at the New Yorker site in advance of last night’s Commander in Chief Forum, but the question was in the air before Matt Lauer’s odd and now disputed grilling of the two candidates.I’m not as prone as some to crucify Lauer himself for the way he ate […]
Via the Nib, Sophie Yanow contributes a substantial report from Standing Rock, where a number of Indians and their supporters have gathered to offer support to the Lakota there against a pipeline project.Yanow’s sketchbook is primarily a series of vignettes, and the segments that lay out the actual conflict are brief and without a lot […]
Tom Tomorrow holds forth on the new, social-media driven news cycle.Parts of this cartoon are excellent, parts are very much open for criticism.For one thing, I think he needs some new clip art to indicate hipsters, because the folks in that initial panel wouldn’t know Snapchat from Snoop Dogg, and, if they know about something, […]
It’s Labor Day here in the US, and Bill Day didn’t get the memo about hot dog jokes, so inadvertantly did an editorial cartoon on the actual topic of the labor situation in the US.It’s always been possible to demonize labor, and times when it was easier than others: Blowing off bombs on Wall Street […]
Feeling burnt out this morning, a bit like Tina in today’s Tina’s Groove: I ought to care, I’m probably missing something, and yet …After a couple of decades, you begin to slide into “been there, done that,” and staying up to bizarre hours to watch the moon disappear falls into that category, I’m afraid.Laying aside […]
Jack Ohman with a cartoon that, if you are over 50, is guaranteed to bring you right down.Jack does these longer-format cartoons for the SacBee, which makes it worth following him on Facebook (well, or subscribing to the Bee, sure), and it seems the Old Days were on his mind, because he posted that one […]
(Mike Luckovich)(Clay Bennett)Start with a juxtaposition and something to ponder:These are both good commentaries on the gap between the image of the United States and what it stands for and the proposals of Donald Trump, and not the only two contrasting the Statue of Liberty with the Statutes of Trumpery. We could have an interesting discussion […]
David Horsey celebrates the centennial of our National Parks by pointing out their neglect, which not only limits that celebration but, more critically, forces moderation in defending them against the champions of free market exploitation.As he notes in his essay, while budget constraints are an indicator of how strong the privatization and exploitation forces are in lobbying to undermine […]
The Colin Kaepernick issue has exploded in an on-line mess that, at its lunatic fringes, appears determined to see who can argue the loudest with the least honesty.Ed Hall lays out the logical, historically valid argument. He’s not the only one who shrugs and states the obvious, including one of the Internet’s better-known actual veterans, […]
Today’s Baby Blues could touch off a full rant on its own, since it doesn’t take much to get me started on the topic of my summers at Camp Lord O’ The Flies, and a shameful lesson I learned was just what Zoey states: Better anyone else but me.As a small kid with a big mouth, […]
I’m finding it hard to get too inspired by a lot of cartoons lately, particularly over in the political sphere, and I think I know why. I’ll start with an Ed Hall panel to get the conversation going without tapping into one political wing or the other.This one isn’t bad, but my point is that it […]
Emily Flake takes a swipe at the “fur baby” crowd, more observationally than judgmentally, but let’s not pretend she’s being neutral. There are three more panels to this piece, “Dogs: Are They The Same As Kids,” over at the Nib, and, while I don’t mind running a four-panel piece entire, if they go to the […]
This Prickly City actually ran yesterday, but I’m breaking the rules because it reminded me of six years ago when this blog was at that stage.I post the blog each morning, but there’s something about seeing your work in final-form that makes typos and infelicities leap out at you, so I often go back, not for […]