Reading Alex requires you to recognize the strict compliance requirements in the British workplace, but this one works anywhere because the IRS similarly allows you to write off business lunches, including alcoholic beverages, but with rules, including that things not get too “lavish and expensive.”Being able to write off a large, expensive bottle of wine […]
Wilbur gets as political today as I want to, given that I’m recovering from that lost hour of sleep and also am bracing myself for a flood of Katie Britt panels that are sure to hit over the next 24 hours.In the meantime, I appreciate someone who can combine a cartooning cliche with a political […]
Clay Jones marks National Newspaper Week (Oct 1-7) with this reminder of a major factor in the decline of newspapers: The odd belief that, while a cup of coffee costs money, information “wants to be free.”Maybe information wants to be free, but the people who compile it want to pay their rent and buy groceries. […]
Grand Avenue (AMS) marks a cultural change that has often sent me digging through the memory banks. I suppose the sign might have been when the streetlights came on, and it’s possible, since they were more likely set to a specific time rather than light actuated, which would have sent us straight home from the […]
Odd timing at Non Sequitur (AMS) this morning, as Danae might well have watched the most popular cable news channel last night, but she’d have likely absorbed a less promising message about career paths.For those not operating on long lead times, however, the firing of Tucker Carlson called forth a torrent of intentional commentary, which […]
So apparently Trump is bookending Photoshopped pictures of an inaugural crowd that never showed up with Photoshopped pictures of a million protesters who likewise and ain’t that appropriate and while it doesn’t quite close out the fiasco, it’s a good reason to stop obsessing and have some fun.Not that this precludes political cartoons. It just […]
Loretta Lockhorn speaks wisdom, and, certainly, on a Monday morning, we can step back from current events for a bit.As long as we check back once in a while to see what’s going on.Every 10 minutes should be enough. When I used to visit high schools to talk about political cartoons, I’d show Nast’s obituary cartoon […]
There’s not a lot going on over on the editorial side. Statues of Liberty being knelt upon, but not much new insight.But politics have leaked over onto the funny pages, so we’ll look there.First:Will no one rid me of this troublesome website?This Nick Anderson cartoon was taken down at the Red Bubble site at the […]
We’ll start with David Fitzsimmons’ commentary on the militants who demand the opening of society and who insist that the contagious nature of the coronavirus is a myth or an error or a political gambit.As noted yesterday, there have been a plethora of such cartoons, mostly featuring the notion that those who protest today will […]
J.D. Crowe extends the invitation and we should all accept it and gather together, separately.I’m good with that. I’ve worked at home for the past decade and I don’t miss going into the office.But even JD Salinger used to come into town once in awhile to check his mail and have a cup of coffee.Today’s blog […]
Nick Anderson captures the moment, and I would add that not only has Facebook (and Twitter, for that matter) become a seething cauldron of coronavirus stupidity but seems to be ramping up the political idiocy as well.And while I chuckle, too, at all the cartoonists saying they’ve practiced social isolation all their lives, part of […]
It’s been a while since Sir Stewart has made an appearance in Alex, but then it had been a while since Warren Buffett made an appearance and here they both are, Sir Stewart tanking a fictional financial company while Buffett walks away from newspapers, having sold the Buffalo News and his other newspaper holdings to […]
This could have been a much larger Juxtaposition. After ignoring the ones I didn’t like, I had 15 that I did, which I thought would be excessive.I managed to cut the list down to six, which I’m running in alphabetical order. Juxtaposition of the Covfefe(Pat Bagley) (Matt Davies) (Jack Ohman) (Mike Luckovich) (Drew Sheneman) (Tom Toles) (Bottomliners) Whoops. That last one wasn’t a […]
The Syria air strike cartoons are coming in, but I’m not seeing a lot of consensus, either in cartoons or in social media.Joe Heller is one of the few who salutes an actual, as he says, change of heart, which, by the way, I would note might also be indicated by the demotion (and rumored impending […]
There are times when a strip hits it so squarely that I have very little to add, like today’s the Barn. I’ve said in the past that printers were sold as an excuse to sell ink, but it was a joke, because they were still expensive enough that this wasn’t quite true. But I bought a new […]