I’ll admit I haven’t been following TV coverage of the Oregon standoff, but between Jen Sorensen’s take and Ann Telnaes’s animation and a few lesser commentaries, I gather the media confusion I cited yesterday has not cleared up appreciably.I have noticed that disjointed reporting continues in on-line sources and, meanwhile, the false equivalencies continue to flourish […]
From The GuardianFrench satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo will mark a year since an attack on its offices with a cover featuring a bearded man representing God with a Kalashnikov slung over his shoulder, accompanied by the text: ?One year on: the assassin is still out there.?
Between some repeats, some un-updated sites and a continuing trickle of late-arriving New Year’s gags, it seems apparent that having a major holiday fall on Friday means Monday doesn’t exactly hit the ground running, particularly when it’s New Years and we’ve just had an entire week of nobody doing anything.However, at least the crazies worked […]
The reverberations of the Ted Cruz organ-grinder cartoon persist as we near the anniversary of the Charlie Hebdo murders, and if any clarity has emerged from either, it is that you can not argue a fool into understanding.The true folly is to recognize that a person is either deliberately lying or genuinely incapable of understanding, and […]
I gotta say, digging through the pile of New Year’s cartoons this morning didn’t yield a whole lot of ponies.Good Rule of Thumb: If the idea comes that easily, it probably occurred to everyone else, too.Whatever. You got credit for showing up on the holiday and the holiday is over.Now how’s about everyone getting back to […]
And welcome to 1916!Let’s start this look at the New Year of a century ago with a quick review of the year just past, and, since we’re in pre-1923 public-domain territory anyway, not only can you click to embiggen, but you can get an even clearer look if you simply download a copy,The big story […]
Tina’s Groove creator Rina Piccolo returns to temporarily take over Hilary Price’s Rhymes With Orange.From Rina’s blog:As some of you may remember, I?ve had a few stints as a guest on RWO over the years. What can I say ? Hilary is one of my ultimate favorite gag cartoonists, and in my opinion her comic […]
Start with Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal, which happens to tie into this Hemingway spoof I posted on Facebook yesterday. Ironically, “A Moveable Feast” is firmly anchored at my house: It’s next to the john, because I was decluttering and donating and came across it and thought, “Well, I suppose I ought to read it first.”Reading “The […]
On the Fastrack is a syndicated comic with a pretty lively on-line presence, and Dethany, who began as an odd little goth admin ass’t has emerged, as minor characters sometimes do, into a dominant part of the strip, complete with her avian sidekick, Lenore.Today’s strip is a nice meld of the geek-basics of Fastrack with […]
The blowback over Ann Telnaes’ cartoon condemning Ted Cruz for exploiting his children continues, and I suppose you could ask, had she gone Rob Rogers’ route and depicted the three of them as clowns, would the explosion have happened?And the cynical response is that Ted would still have risen up all butt-hurt and asking for […]
Children’s book illustrator Will Terry reviews Apple’s iPad Pro as a professional illustration device.
Let’s start at the end: Edge City is in its final week and is having some fun with the concept. I like the idea of actually signing off rather than just stopping, and being up front with readers. I’m sorry the strip is ending, but I’m glad to see them go out with a little class. Voter […]
Scott Stantis offers a chilling look at the conventional wisdom, and it brings up a disturbing idea:If we can’t understand why people believe the nonsense that flies out of Donald Trump’s mouth, does believing the pundits who assure us he can’t win make any more sense?That is, we’ve heard media analysts say that people tend […]
According to my counter, many of you were able to ace Bug Martini’s “Caring About Family” test yesterday. Welcome back.Though, while the demands of the holiday may keep people from making their appointed rounds, if my own experience was at all typical, it didn’t mean putting the phones away entirely, because there was likely a […]
(Norm 4.0)(My Dad)I particularly liked this Norm, because my interest in cartooning came from my dad, who was not a professional cartoonist but did the family card each year. This is one of my favorites and, yes, I was the youngest of three at that stage.The cast became larger over the years. This card marked […]