(Joel Pett)(Jen Sorensen)These takes on Rand Paul have been on the pages of Jen Sorensen and Joel Pett for several days and on my mind as well.I’ve wanted to feature them but wasn’t sure what the mutual resonance was and didn’t want to simply plop them in as a “Juxtaposition of the Day.” I […]

I haven’t heard any news in a couple of years about Colleen LaRose, AKA “Jihad Jane”, who plotted to kill Swedish cartoonist Lars Vilks. The New York Times reports that federal prosecutors are seeking a “very lengthy” prison sentence citing, “her punishment should serve as a deterrent to ‘other lonely, vulnerable people who might be […]

I’ve heard of stories where cartoonists find themselves on the phone with the president. In this video Zapiro recounts the time he found himself taking a complaint from South African President Mandela. Watch the video. I won’t tease/spoil it any further.

Michael Maslin: Michael Maslin : You know, it?s funny, but I realized this evening while looking up your work on The New Yorker?s database that tomorrow is the 20th anniversary of your first appearance in the magazine, the issue dated December 13, 1993. What was that moment like for you, selling that first drawing, and […]

Matthew Sparkes at The Telegraph: Google has been awarded a patent for what it humourlessly calls “a system for electronically creating comic strip communications” which can be integrated into social networking websites and apps. The search giant noticed that many sites were offering an automated way to create short comic strips, allowing users to enter […]

I always appreciate it when a cartoonist allows me to vent about something without violating the Prime Directive. Thank you, Mr. Fitz, for allowing me to be positive about this insider take, rather than give in to the temptation to run, and then rip down, a bad cartoon on the topic.Here’s the deal: First of […]

Shia LaBeouf, who has admitted to using dialog and direct adaptation from a Daniel Clowes comic written in 2007, has taken to the skies above Los Angeles yesterday to apologize to the artist. The skywriting (see photo above) was commissioned and tweeted by LaBeouf. The Guardian notes that Daniel lives in San Francisco Bay Area […]

I had the chance to talk to Scott before the holiday hiatus. I’m still working on getting our conversation transcribed – but we talked about systems vs goals. Using systems rather than goals might not be for everyone – some people are just goal driven (and that’s a good thing), but others may not have […]

Hat tip: Mike Lynch

 Tom the Dancing Bug starts the year off with a heartfelt plea for cooperation from Big Brother.My growing anger over the violation of the Fourth Amendment and the social contract in general, and my growing distrust over the Official Story, is beginning to overcome my indifference to the spying itself, which means the timing for […]

Let’s join the New Year’s Eve 1913 party, already in progress over at Bud Fisher’s. (There will be lots of clicking to get larger versions today, by the way. On my computer, Chrome allows scrolling down on those pull-outs, Firefox does not.)Nice of him to apply labels. A lot of familiar faces, but not all […]

I’m using this cartoon because, in it, my little pal Edison Lee sums up my feelings about New Year’s Eve.Also because I think it’s the only syndicated cartoon in the universe that didn’t do a New Year’s Eve gag about falling asleep early. Reading cartoons about falling asleep on New Year’s Eve is kind of […]

Let’s start with stupid today and work our way up.Gags about saggy blue jeans and other teen fashions are the stuff of lame, burned-out old hacks, but today’s Bizarro is more incisive, probing beyond Andy Rooney and getting into more dangerous Bill Cosby territory.I was a huge Bill Cosby fan in my early teen years. But […]

Interesting cartoon by Steve Kelley, for several reasons.Kelley skews right of center, but he’s not out at the edge. The true right-wingers, by contrast, have been parading Obama’s low approval ratings but absolutely silent about the abysmal numbers the GOP has been getting in polls.The “approval ratings” story is that voters are angry with everyone, […]

At the risk of dwelling too much on my ever-present anxiety over whether I’m just old or actually stupid (scroll down to yesterday’s post), I was really pleased to see the new Scenes from a Multiverse today, below which Jon Rosenberg comments, “If you’re interested in keeping your money in a form that can drop […]