I score about a .667 with xkcd, which is to say, about a third of the time, it’s too geeky for me to get the joke. That’s not a knock on the cartoon: I imagine there are people who don’t always get Tank McNamara because they don’t follow sports closely. I like the idea of […]

Start off with Matt, less to salute the prospect of another woman in charge than because it reminds me of a quote I had over my desk in the newsroom.I was hardly a fan of Margaret Thatcher, but Denis was, as Matt Pritchett suggests, a very entertaining First Spouse, which ought to count for something.In […]

In today’s Medium Large, Francesco Marciuliano speaks for many, I’m sure, though he has the advantage of a strip that is extremely meta, such that commenting on commenting is within his mission.Other cartoonists are in a position similar to 9/11, because they are required to say something at a moment when it’s hard to do […]

The news over the past 48 hours or so is such that any commentary available at the moment is likely to seem at least short-sighted as details emerge.Fortunately, over on the non-political side, there are a few sorely needed distractions.For instance: It’s county fair season, and, at Rhymes with Orange, Hilary Price salutes County Fair Fare.For […]

Nick Anderson contrasts the UK’s Chilcot Report with the American flood of partisan witch hunts. The facial expressions alone are worth the price of admission, because, while the captions suggest the exhaustive effort involved in one and the partisan slapdash work in the other, the look of gravitas on the left suggests an inquiry done not […]

Robert Ariail gets the award for summing it up without going overboard.Summing up the actual announcement, that is. The impact and significance is a bit less straightforward, and there are all sorts of directions to take it.And most of them seem to have been taken by somebody or other, most predictably from the right, where the […]

Here’s why I love Bug Martini: Adam Huber knows what a pathetic whiner he is. Bunnies. Today, he’s whining about bunnies. Freaking bunnies.Maybe what he knows is what a pathetic whiner the protagonist of his cartoon is. Maybe Adam Huber is a standup guy who, like the writers of “Seinfeld,” despises self-involved narcissists.I think I’m suffering from a […]

I started to do a roundup of July 4 cartoons from 25, 50, 75, 100 years ago, but they were pretty bland, so I decided instead to look at Independence Day as seen at a particularly fraught moment: 1942, when we were well into the war but the outcome was still in the balance.To set […]

Sometimes comics offer commentary on the news and sometimes they don’t. Given that Scott Stantis pays attention to what’s happening in space, it’s possible today’s Prickly City was inspired by the discovery of Earth’s second moon, a story that quickly fizzled into cosmic trivia under more careful scrutiny.Turns out that our “second moon” is a […]

We’ll start today with the front end of a four-day weekend with this Doc and Raider salute to Canada Day from friend-of-the-blog Sean Stephane Martin.The four day stretch between July 1 and 4 was a big deal when I lived in Plattsburgh and I assume still is. We were less than an hour south of Montreal, but […]

(Clay Jones) (Jim Morin)I don’t suppose we’ll ever close out Benghazi, but let’s start the day with a juxtaposition that shames the exploitation of the Benghazi dead in the service of partisan foolishness.Rob Rogers points out the waste and the committee’s desperation to find something they can claim as a payoff.  As noted yesterday, a couple […]

Jack Ohman on the $7 million blockbuster.I’m not a Hillary Clinton fan, but she had two moments in the past year that really impressed me. One was her speech in San Diego in which she eviscerated Donald Trump, the other was her calm, composed testimony in front of the House Committee on Partisan Fishing Expeditions.In both cases, […]

Just for fun, we’ll go in order of dumbness today, and, when it comes to dumb jokes, Wayno often leads the pack.Don’t get me wrong: I like dumb jokes, but I like them done well, and there are a million ways this joke could have been done badly.Instead, by not actually telling the joke, he […]

The Brexit cartoons are really rolling in now, and I wish that meant that I felt compelled to do another roundup.Instead, I feel compelled to salute Dan Wasserman for having done his homework and then making a coherent point. I wish I had been compelled to sort through more like this.I recognize that some political […]

I’m feeling a bit burnt out on politics this morning, but can’t let this Matt Wuerker piece go out of date without featuring it. There have been a number of cartoons mocking Paul Ryan’s dismissal of the sit-in as a “publicity stunt,” as if the Republicans haven’t engaged in publicity stunts of their own, like repeatedly […]