Ahmad Akkari, a Danish Muslim leader who traveled through the Middle East inciting outrage at the Prophet Mohammad caricatures published in the Jyllands-Posten, now says that was “wrong”.Money quote from The Guardian: “I want to be clear today about the trip: It was totally wrong,” Akkari said this week. “At that time, I was so […]
Plain Dealer editorial cartoonist Jeff Darcy is one of two staffers being inducted into the Cleveland Journalism Hall of Fame. Jeff was selected by the Press Club of Cleveland.Jeff was a finalist this year for the Pulitzer Prize and has been with the Plain Dealer since 1993.
Ted Rall posits the “What if it were happening to you?” question, neatly reversing Israelis and Palestinians to forestall the inevitable accusations of antisemitism that flow when settlements are questioned.It’s a shame that genuine antisemites do indeed advance the argument that you can question Israeli policies without being an antisemite, because you genuinely can, as […]
It’s fashionable to hate Garfield, with his repetitive dread of Mondays and abuse of Odie and embrace of lasagna and so forth and so on. Or, at least, that’s what I assume still goes on there. To tell the truth, for all the strips I read every day, Garfield isn’t one of them.However, that said […]
Kieran Meehan specializes in the clueless and “Pros & Cons” is one of the strips I most look forward to every morning.Stupid is funny when it’s fictional. But, of course, the humor comes from hitting just the right level of exaggeration, the point where you laugh at the absurdity of the situation depicted because you […]
Mike Luckovich on the rodeo clown incident. Everyone is officially horrified, and then a (Republican) Texas politician invites the man who insulted the President of the United States down to Texas to do it again. There is a way of responding that quells this stuff, and a way that winks, and either the GOP has some […]
Shannon Wheeler strikes a blow for freedom of expression or of thought or of not living your life in a constant clench.Mostly, I suspect, the latter, which is good enough for me, though I suppose he could have just been being sarcastic. No, wait: That’s impossible. Not him.Anyway, it made me laff, and it also […]
I was at my school reunion this past weekend. The place is too small to make individual class reunions practical, so we just all get together and chip in for a buffet. It’s really more of a “homecoming” celebration without the football game. When I was growing up, it was a miningtown, but the mines closed […]
Jeff Stahler’s cartoon would be funny if it weren’t so sad, scary and infuriating. In my lifetime, America has gone from “The War on Poverty” to “The War on the Poor,” and health care is one of the main battlegrounds.Health care matters on a number of levels, including highly pragmatic ones, which is probably why […]
I’m in beautiful Island Park Idaho with my wife’s family this week. No updates to the blog whilst I’m away. I’ll be back next week.
I’ll be traveling the last week of August to Norway on business. While there, I’d like to meet any cartoonists in the Oslo area for dinner/drinks. Does anyone know any cartoonist in Oslo? Or someone I can reach out to and get some names?
I like to keep a mix here, and having just devoted two posts to some sublime, insightful strips, we’ll just take that single step over to the ridiculous, with a few samples of what made me laff today, starting with the Lockhorns with a quick workshop on how to make a basically silly idea work.To […]
Yesterday, I was able to create a balance between fair use and coherence, but today that won’t work.Using part of Molly Brooks’ examination of sports, theater, fiction, reality and suchlike doesn’t begin to explain it, but using the whole thing stretches the definition of “fair use” beyond my comfort zone.This is Page Two of Seven […]
A chilling internal monologue as Sarah Laing gives us a peek behind the curtain and lets us watch as she is browbeaten by a disembodied Katherine Mansfield, who is not only utterly dismissive of her talent but surprisingly au courant about the artists who could – any of them — do a much better job.(I […]
If you haven’t had enough Bezos-buys-the-Post cartoons, Michael Cavna has a wrap-up over at his Washpo blog. It’s not all of them, but it’s enough of a sample that I hope it scratches the itch, because I’m done at least unless something extraordinary happens.Like, for instance, if it turns out the Post was facing a […]