Jack Ohman’s local cartoons are often more fun than his nationals, because he uses a multi-panel approach to eviscerate somebody on a topic his readers in Sacramento are familiar with.In this case, the topic is that a protestor smashed a pie into the face of Sacramento Mayor and former NBA star Kevin Johnson, and I […]
Here’s an oddity that might have appeared in Mad Magazine rather than under its own label: Rex Morgan doesn’t simply confront the Dorian Gray element of a strip that has been around this long, but challenges readers to take it seriously themselves.It’s a fun break in a process of reinvention that apparently includes wrapping up […]
Start off with Matt, less to salute the prospect of another woman in charge than because it reminds me of a quote I had over my desk in the newsroom.I was hardly a fan of Margaret Thatcher, but Denis was, as Matt Pritchett suggests, a very entertaining First Spouse, which ought to count for something.In […]
(Ann Telnaes, 2016)(Pat Oliphant, 2012)For the past week, I’ve been sitting on an article in the Columbia Journalism Review by Ann Telnaes on the topic of Pat Oliphant in part because I didn’t want to just toss it in with other things and in part because it wouldn’t simply slip into place like the final […]
Pat Bagley, on an extremely troubling phenomenon in the closing hours of the primary process.I had already looked at this piece as a possibility here because, unlike a number of related cartoons, it doesn’t assume a lot of facts not in evidence, the chief one being whether there really is a significant “Bernie Bros” phenomenon.It’s […]
Prickly City demonstrates how you cover a campaign when you have to factor in lead time. Whatever happened in the intervening days, Stantis was unlikely to have to back off this one. I didn’t watch last night’s debate, in large part because, if I stay up for that, you don’t get this, but also because it seems […]
Fowl Language starts off the day with a cartoon I like, even though it’s directed at people like me.I don’t like IMs and I’m certainly not very good at texting and the two factors are not unconnected. If I enjoyed it, I’d do it more often and then I’d be better at it.But I don’t, so […]
Frazz is my favorite educational comic: I didn’t know that “boutonnière” is French for the buttonhole you stick your boutonniere in.And that link taught me all sorts of other things I didn’t know, including that jackets not only used to have real buttonholes there (which I did know) but that there was a loop behind […]
If you missed the announcement the other day, Edge City is shutting down at the end of the year, and part of the wrap is that the guys were approached by a rival who made them a generous offer. The truly fictional part is that the new company agreed not to lay anyone off. If the strip […]
My first reaction to Brandan Reynolds’ cartoon was the realization that, while normally a South African commentary on US politics would provoke a knee-jerk “What business is it of yours?” response, Donald Trump is an international issue and not just our own problem.Which, to start with, is the natural result of our sticking our nose […]
Yes! Exactly! You’re both right!Okay, I’m not entirely sure Kevin Siers meant that, but they are. I think his intention is that it kind of sticks us in one place, and I won’t argue with that, either.Obama is right that repeating the follies that got us here won’t get us out of here, and that ramping […]
There have been a number of government-spying cartoons, most of them not all that good. I like Stuart Carlson’s cartoon, but it does more to point out the inconsistency than to analyze it. That is, are critics genuinely surprised at the end result of inviting the camel’s nose under the tent flap? Or is this […]
I’m currently working on a series for kids about Theodore Roosevelt and conservation, and, as part of that, was going through political cartoons of the era.This two page spread by Puck cartoonist L.M. Glackens ran in that publication in 1906, when William Randolph Hearst was a candidate for governor of New York (click on it […]
Colleges in rural areas have a problem each fall, when freshmen from urban centers show up and find that they can’t sleep without the normal background noise of a city. So they turn on their stereos at night, which works, unless they have a roommate who is used to quiet and can’t sleep with rock […]