Every time I feature “Existential Comics,” I end up putting in a disclaimer about whether you have to be a philosophy major to get the joke. So, to keep up that tradition, let me say that you don’t have to have had more than a faint brush with existentialism to find “Existential Werewolves” — of […]
We’ll start with the least significant but most fun piece, Joe Heller’s reminder that next Wednesday in the early early you can catch a Super Blue Blood-Moon Eclipse. He left off the “blood-moon” part because it’s kind of silly: The moon gets coppery red in a total eclipse so that “blood-moon eclipse” is an overly dramatic way […]
Several cartoonists were able to get their pens moving in time to pick up on the end of the shutdown, but I particularly like Clay Bennett’s take because of its sweeping, enigmatic tone.He’s treading on dangerous ground, because it’s easy for anyone to take a gratuitous Will Rogers slam at government being useless.In fact, we’ve […]
So Animatronic Trump has come to Earth and I’m blaming Ray.Animatronic Trump is nearly as scary as the real one. I’ve never been to the Hall of Presidents or the Magic Kingdom at all, though I did visit Disneyland back when I was 9 and Donnie was 13, before Disneyland began banning men with long […]
One advantage of living in Australia is that it’s already tomorrow, so David Rowe got a jump on his American colleagues, who are (as I write this at 5:25 AM EST) just pouring their first cups of coffee.Though I see the NY Daily News also picked up on the irresistable straightline Moore handed everyone. I […]
The last event of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists convention was a dinner and awards ceremony for which I put on a tie for the first time in a couple of years, but that symbolizes much of what I liked so much about this convention: You were expected to wash behind your ears for […]
It’s entirely possible that Dave Blazek was inspired by the same thing that made me laugh at today’s Loose Parts: Those sanitary wipes at the grocery store, which keep you from getting bubonic plague from touching a shopping cart.My solution is that, when the cart wranglers get a train of carts together, they should shove […]
There are all sorts of Harvey Weinstein cartoons floating around at the moment, but a lot of them miss the point.Or, at least, they miss my point. Oddly enough, my point was served up on a silver platter by happenstance in the form of today’s Vintage Juliet Jones, which originally ran July 21, 1960, when […]
We’ll start and end with a cartoon-invoked memory today, and Mother Goose & Grimm fits right in with hurricane season, because in the late ’90s, a hurricane tore apart schools in Antigua and I ended up leading an effort among newspaper education programs to assist.My counterpart there was able to skirt the usual security problems […]
Canadian Gary Clement sums up international response to Dear Leader’s UN speech, with his own blind self-satisfaction being what makes the cartoon click.Every world leader is surrounded by sycophants, but I wonder how many hand-pick them for just that reason? There is something very Third Worldish about this, and that observation doesn’t change the situation. At […]
I was thinking yesterday that perhaps it’s too late for editorial cartoons, that there’s no point in debate because nobody’s listening, here under the snowflake flag in which everyone is constantly offended and nobody is happy and, in the words of my elder sister possibly just before I became her little brother, “Everybody always be’s […]
While, as noted here before, too many cartoonists are going on about “the only shooting incident that really matters,” others are attending to the nation’s business, and there are issues that deserve continued discussion.Above, Ann Telnaes comments on the presidents’ rejection of our justice system, and the best part of this cartoon is its optimism: […]
Betty puts a thoughtful spin on the usual men-and-housework cliche. Cartoonists have moved away, for the most part, from endlessly bashing women for overdrawing their checking accounts and smashing up their cars, with only a few old dinosaurs hanging on to those condescending gags.But the incompetent, uncooperative hubby remains at the center of a lot of […]
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 […]
A peek behind the scenes to explain why I love Between Friends.The above is yesterday’s strip, part of an ongoing arc about Maeve’s crush on the barista in her office building. It’s been kind of silly, but that’s within boundaries, because Maeve’s love-life is always inadvisedly directed, sometimes in silly ways, sometimes in disastrous ones. But it did […]