Sandra Bell Lundy breaks through the moldy Mother’s Day cartoons with this Between Friends salute to non-average moms.Obviously, it helps that she had already created a non-average parental situation which had previously addressed a real-life issue, rather than simply settling into the Mom-Dad-Bud-and-Sis pre-fab cartoon model.My feed is full of strips that offer up gags […]
First, an announcement: Enough time has now passed that it is no longer a coincidence to depict Donald Trump as a butcher who hacked an elephant into pieces. Stop it.Besides, David Horsey appears here too often for my fair-use comfort level, for which reason I wish someone else had made this excellent historic parallel, because I can hardly […]
If you’ve visited here more than, oh, two or three times, you know I have an affection for gallows humor.The gallows, however, need to be somewhat metaphorical, and, as Matt Bors points out here, gags about what a “gift” the current campaign is for cartoonists aren’t particularly funny or insightful.Or original, for that matter. Every clownish […]
The Whole World Is Watching and Matt suggests the whole world’s reaction and how I wish I had some clever riposte.Or could at least, as the song suggests, call the whole thing off.There are also plenty of American cartoons about Trump’s victory, but few of them illuminate anything we couldn’t see before. In fact, nothing even […]
Glenn McCoy isn’t the only cartoonist to play with the Ringling Brothers/GOP concept, but he’s got the most complete take on it, and also gets some cred for speed, though it didn’t take a crystal ball to see the results of last night’s Indiana primary and he didn’t have to wait until the polls closed […]
In the sad-but-not-sad category, Alan Gardner has put his blog, The Daily Cartoonist, on hiatus after 10 years.It’s sad because those of us who love comics have come to count on the place as both a quick shot of insider info, often the first place but certainly the quickest for news of both mainstream and […]
Perhaps you’ve noticed the site has not been updated for awhile now. I certainly didn’t intend to go this long without mentioning something, but since several individuals have contacted me asking if I was okay or what was going on with the blog, I’m long overdue for some level of public explanation.The Daily Cartoonist had […]
Pat Bagley, on an extremely troubling phenomenon in the closing hours of the primary process.I had already looked at this piece as a possibility here because, unlike a number of related cartoons, it doesn’t assume a lot of facts not in evidence, the chief one being whether there really is a significant “Bernie Bros” phenomenon.It’s […]
Tina’s Groove is at its best when it reflects life in food service, and today’s brings back memories, even though I totalled less than a year in the business. As a wise man said, “It’s not the years; it’s the mileage.”The access to a free meal is supposed to make up for being paid sub-minimum […]
This is probably partisan rancour on my part, but I think Walt Handelsman has pretty much boiled it down here.I’ve said this before, but Clinton reminds me of the honor student who is president of everything, who gets the top grades, who becomes valedictorian and who, a minute before the bell rings, raises her hand […]
(Kevin Kallaugher) (David Fitzsimmons) The GOP is convinced Trump’s candidacy t’is but a flesh wound, as Kal notes, while Fitz explains the current status of the Sanders’ campaign.Consider this a rare Juxtaposition of Actually Getting It, as both cartoonists cut through floods of less perceptive commentary and get down to what’s what.I’ve resisted the bundling of […]
Tom the Dancing Bug (see the rest here) offers a simple transposition, proposing that science-deniers apply their (alleged) beliefs to other areas.I’d say it could have been done in four panels rather than nine, and possibly even in one, but Bolling touches on several aspects of denial and sustains within that extended length.Length is a […]
The first choice today is from Retail, and is about Rules and Procedures.This story arc has been going on for a little while, but the strip’s overall flow is such that it’s not always easy to point out when to tell people to jump in. The overarching development that brought this on is that Marla’s […]
Heart of the City is a feel-good strip that doesn’t often provide boffo laffs, but, like Red and Rover and Dog Eat Doug, is in a genre you might call “Nostalgia with an Edge.” R&R specifically goes back to the past, but these strips all rely on your memory of what it was like to […]
I’d like this Clay Jones piece even if it weren’t a case of winning by default.I’ve often said how much I dislike lazy editorial cartoonists, both the tired “oh those teenagers with their saggy pants” social commentators and the knee-jerk partisans who have nothing to say but feel sure that Hillary Clinton’s email and Donald Trump’s […]