Mary Lawton with a seasonal note. Until the leaves come back, this is how chic trees make a fashion statement.And Willie & Ethel with a related take.I’ve lived in a couple of places where paper production was a major part of the local economy, given which the idea that grocery stores would even dare to […]
Let’s start with Tom Toles’ latest, since it’s not only self-explanatory but a little over-explained. He didn’t have to drag Yogi along to show his source for a famous quote that perfectly mocks the false-logic of current attacks.If there is something encouraging in all this, it is that a constant drumbeat of misunderstanding, spin, exaggeration […]
“Personal time” is kind of a strange concept for writers and I would assume cartoonists as well, and perhaps for anybody who gets paid to do what they want to do anyway. I have a service dog, in that he exists simply to get me up and away from the computer twice a day for […]
Terri Libenson on a problem I rarely have but can really identify with. One of the issues with freelancing is that, since you are never on the clock, consequently, neither are you ever off the clock. I don’t juggle a boatload of projects, but there is always something lurking, and even when I don’t have a […]
By the time “Harold and the Purple Crayon” arrived on the scene, I was a semi-literate young man of five, and one who already knew the main character from poring through my parents’ collection of Barnaby. Different name, but it hardly mattered, because I hadn’t been able to read the words anyway. I knew he was […]
“Long Past?” inquired Scrooge: observant of its dwarfish stature.“No. Your past.””Oh, &%^# that,” said Scrooge, and went back to bed.The End. Juxtaposition of the Day(Rex Morgan)(Between Friends)Today’s Juxtaposition gets top billing because it really fires up the Rant Generator and I’m going to have to sort the relevant from the visceral here.To start with, Rex’s sudden […]
So the cartoons are coming in, the weepers and the “Congress does nothings” and the “What will it takes?”Yes, what will it take?What will it take before we quit lying to ourselves and pretending we care?Jimmy Margulies got it right. In fact, as newspapers seek ways to cut costs, I think they could benefit […]
Keith Knight on young people and the prison industry.I’ll leave the racial aspects of things in his hands, except to remember that it was Richard Pryor who said of the legal system: “You go down there looking for justice; that’s what you find: Just us.”I certainly agree that we bust kids for stuff we used to […]
Damien Glez addresses the poaching crisis in Africa. For the benefit of those who never learned où est la bibliothèque, the elephant is consulting a plastic surgeon and asking to be made to look like a hippopotamus.I like everything Glez does, even when I have no idea who the people he’s drawing are or what the […]
No kidding, Harry Bliss. No kidding.Thank goodness comics cover a variety of topics, although right now a substantial portion of them appear to be dedicated to depictions of Barrack Obama as Richard Nixon. Many cartoonists avoid looking at other cartoons for fear of absorbing an idea and later inadvertantly using it without recalling that it wasn’t […]
In today’s Knight Life, Keith Knight seems poised to leap into an unnecessary future.There are any number of reasons to resist the siren song of the new, and probably as many to embrace it. But the “dead trees” mantra needs to stop being a mantra and become, instead, a discussion.Beginning with a different phrase that […]
I went through a raft of Boston Marathon cartoons this morning thinking I would end up leading with Nast, since the messages all seemed kind of mundane. Yes, we’re sad. And, yeah, we’d like to find out who did it. I already had Nast on my mind when I came to Matt Wuerker’s take and found we […]
Lio has been skewering the selection of strips in newspapers this week, and it’s been funny, pointed stuff. Mark Tatulli is in a good position to rant on the topic, not just because he’s funny about it, but because, between Lio and Heart of the City, he’s got a pair of successful strips.So it’s not […]
Indeed.The ideal news story today would be if Kate Upton took an unscheduled drink of water while stranded on a cruise ship that was buzzed by a meteorite. And, if none of that happened, we could fall back on coverage of Honey Boo Boo.I gave up on NBC Nightly News when they started doing features […]
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