Today’s post is going to look a little short, but don’t be fooled: I’m sending you off to other places, so the time spent will be about average. And worthwhile, I promise.First item is a fun piece by Don Asmussen, better known for Bad Reporter, and is a critique of a Roz Chast exhibit currently […]
It’s not easy to come up with topical cartoons, and poor Tim Eagan gives us a case study of how quickly things can fall apart.This is brilliant work. It’s an excellent predator/prey metaphor and he did a truly great job of melding Putin’s face with that of the self-satisfied lion.Really, really nice work.And then the son […]
I tried. I really did. But, again, I got distracted.I had pulled out today’s Baby Blues, because it coincides with Hasbros’ announcement that they are dropping the boot, the thimble and the wheelbarrow tokens from Monopoly and adding a rubber ducky, a T Rex and a penguin, and I was simply going to laugh at the […]
Let’s warm up with a little Sally Forth, in which Hilary’s off-again-on-again garage band has been booked to play a school dance.On first take, it reminds me of college radio, in which there seems invariably to be disk jockeys intent on playing the most obscure stuff they can dig up, on the apparent premise that […]
Steve Sack takes top honors today for connecting the famous/infamous statement by Nancy Pelosi about the Affordable Care Act with the current GOP discovery that they can’t explain it, either.Pelosi said that the Act was so complex that fighting it out point-by-point in the media before it went into place was foolish, that once it […]
Disclaimer: I didn’t watch the speech.I made an effort to listen to it on the radio but dozed off and on throughout it and the analysis that followed, so about all I really came away with was that, as David Rowe’s cartoon suggests, he stayed on script.And then this morning, as I checked the news, […]
Let’s start with a nice cup of … frustration, courtesy of Between Friends. The empty pot was also in yesterday’s strip, so it may be the start of an arc, but it’s certainly a memory.Anyone who has worked in an office — at least before we started piling up those damned Keurig cups in our […]
We’ll ease into this topic gently, with today’s Loose Parts, wherein Dave Blazek jokes about a phenomenon that, as it happens, was quite real.If you look at the maps of the Rocky Mountain West, you’ll see a difference between, for example, Wyoming, which was settled (to the extent it was) by ranchers, and Colorado, where the […]
The theme today, O Best Beloved, is blindness, as introduced by Jim Morin.Unless there is a Congressional inquiry into his Russian connections, we’ll never see Trump’s tax returns, learn about his business ties, find out about those Russian deals. And, even if his records were subpoenaed, there’s no guarantee.First of all, he’d claim executive privilege — […]
Jeff Danziger scores simply for making me laff. You could put more into this: He and I are of an age to remember when the Cambodian incursion made Americans fear that China would become actively involved in the war. Now I’m seeing presumably younger people brush off Trump’s insult as if China were of no greater consequence […]
This is the way the world ends, BC suggests: Not with a splash, but a trickle.Note that they adjust a few meters at a time. It would make more sense to say “five kilometers” but comics aren’t required to make sense and, unfortunately, neither is reality, or, at least, not the portion of reality that is […]
Let this empty frame stand in for all the “after I voted I had to shower” cartoons that don’t deserve to be juxtaposed. When I juxtapose — which I’ll be doing today — it’s to show differing takes, not a collection of no takes at all.I was in a liquor store once and heard someone ask […]
Let’s start today with the fact that you can’t expect the mass of people to follow the scientific process, by which I mean going where the evidence leads rather than interpreting the evidence in terms of their predisposed assumptions.In “La Cucaracha,” Lalo Alcaraz notes today that Trump is getting a lot of support from the Russians, […]
I’ll start with the fun, easy one: Bliss.I don’t know Harry Bliss (though he lives right next door in Vermont), but this has the hallmarks of a comic drawn from life.For one thing, another cartoonist has long since confessed to me that he used to sing the Velvet Underground’s “Sunday Morning” to his baby, so I’m […]
I score about a .667 with xkcd, which is to say, about a third of the time, it’s too geeky for me to get the joke. That’s not a knock on the cartoon: I imagine there are people who don’t always get Tank McNamara because they don’t follow sports closely. I like the idea of […]