Jack Ohman notes the 53rd anniversary of the Kennedy assassination with several postings on Facebook, and people have been chiming in with their own memories of the day. Aside from rekindling my own memories — I was in eighth grade — it of course brought to mind this classic Mauldin cartoon, which he dashed out […]
Today is the last installment of Apartment 3G, and Tom Spurgeon has a hale-and-farewell that is worth your time.I used to see the strip in one of the Chicago papers — the Trib or the Sun, I forget which — but only read it because it was on the page. Like Mary Worth, it was […]
Yes, Anne. Yes, indeed.Last spring, I gave up political cartoons for Lent and it was very pleasant, but in times of crisis, you can’t just sit around pretending not to know what’s happening.On the other hand, there is still pie in the world and you shouldn’t neglect that, either. So I have no idea what sort […]
Kentucky Governor-elect Matt Bevin has come out opposed to resettlement of Syrian refugees in his state. In response Lexington Herald-Leader editorial cartoonist Joel Pett ran a cartoon depicting Bevin as scared of his own adopted children from Ethiopia.Bevin stated the following in response:?They say a picture is worth a thousand words,? Bevin said in a […]
Steve Benson offers a futile reproach to fear, intolerance and bigotry, “futile” because the people who most loudly declare themselves Christians do not follow the man’s teachings.Moreover, they do not simply ignore what he said, but are openly hostile to his message: As Woody Guthrie wrote long ago, “If Jesus was to preach what He […]
Bob Englehart, who has been at the Hartford current for newrly 35 years, has announced he’s taken a buyout and his last catoon will run on Thanksgiving Day.He post the following on Facebook.The rumors are true. I?m taking the buyout from the Hartford Courant. I?ve read the tea leaves and consulted smarter people than I […]
From the New York Times:Hadi Heidari, a cartoonist at the Shahrvand newspaper, was arrested on Monday and sent to Tehran’s Evin prison, his lawyer told Reuters in a telephone interview from Tehran. “He was convicted two years ago for his cartoons and was sentenced to one year in jail. The authorities had a different interpretation […]
We’ll start today with a David Horsey “Throwback Thursday” panel from 1994, mostly to spare me from trying to pick from among the flood of Indian/immigrant gags that come along this time of year.Not that they aren’t relevant under the current circumstance, but given the gap between what we say we believe in and what […]
Wednesday marked the 30th anniversary of the launch of Bill Watterson’s Calvin and Hobbes. To note the anniversary Lee Salem recalls working with Bill:You worked closely with Watterson for more than 10 years, remaining a friend after 30 years. Please share a few of your favorite memories of working with him. From an editorial perspective, Bill was […]
Yes! Exactly! You’re both right!Okay, I’m not entirely sure Kevin Siers meant that, but they are. I think his intention is that it kind of sticks us in one place, and I won’t argue with that, either.Obama is right that repeating the follies that got us here won’t get us out of here, and that ramping […]
I may have to get off social media for awhile, because the storm of bigotry and chickenhawk nonsense is starting to become overwhelming.I’m not convinced they represent a majority. It could be like having lilac bushes blooming in your yard, only someone ran over a skunk on the road in front of your house.On the […]
Let’s start with the silly and work our way down to the Meaningful. I think the joke in today’s Buckets is that Greg Cravens draws the two characters as eight-year-olds, but the people actually having this conversation are 50 and older, and work in the front offices of Marvel and DC.Which, as I understand it, is […]
I came to this morning assuming there wouldn’t be many editorial cartoons with anything new to say about the Paris attacks and there weren’t, mostly because there wasn’t much to say in the first place, and I think I pretty much touched on the best commentaries yesterday.And there were some good ones.Yesterday.Funny how often the […]
These responses to the Paris attacks are from Cartoon Movement, a site that not only has the advantage of being international but which has a quicker response time than the syndicates and newspapers here. There have already been several posted and I’m sure more will follow.The speed factor is an obvious benefit, but the international aspect means […]