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Our supple tribes repress their patriot throats, And ask no questions but the price of votes; With weekly libels and septennial ale, Their wish is full to riot and to rail.                                      – Samuel Johnson So Tim Eagan basically has […]

I went into my various stashes of political cartoons this morning knowing that, with the budget crisis having hit an armistice overnight, a lot of the commentary would be out-of-date even if it was filed yesterday. That may have put me into a mindset whereby timing, fortunate or otherwise, was forefront.  Take today’s Tank McNamara, […]

Let’s warm up with a little outright foolishness, courtesy of Bizarro.A couple of things to note here: One is that, while good art won’t sell a bad gag, it can sure enhance a silly one. Dan Piraro’s ability to draw the crowd under the feeder with a modicum of realism is much of what makes […]

I remember, back in the days when I believed good work would find a spot, and when I believed I knew how to define good work, and when I believed that the world needed one more introspective novel about college, being particularly incensed when a genuinely-bad-by-any-measure college novel was published not only to some fanfare […]

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 […]

Frank Gorshin used to complain that most impressionists didn’t do impressions of the celebrities they were supposed to be imitating, but rather did impressions of other impressionists imitating those celebrities.Instead of imitating Kirk Douglas, they imitated Gorshin imitating Kirk Douglas. Instead of imitating Richard Nixon, they imitated David Frye imitating Richard Nixon. Instead of imitating […]

“That is Priceless” is a new feature at GoComics, having started October 31, but you can find a significant backlog at Steve Melcher’s blog, where he has apparently been adding irreverent titles to great art since 2009. There’s even a book of them, if you’re still shopping for Christmas or Channukah or the Epiphany or […]

Having proposed a new mural for the school, Big Nate is now getting a lesson on art and the real world. Nate, the lesson you are learning will follow you for life. Kind of like “Groundhog Day,” only, while it keeps happening over and over, you’ll keep getting older as it does. Much older much […]