New Yorker covers are fascinating enough that an article called “20 Iconic New Yorker Covers from the last 93 Years” can be at once disappointing and well worth your time.”Disappointing” in that only a half dozen are from more than 20 years ago, and it’s hard to believe that a little more digging in those […]
Anne Morse Hambrock asks the right question, though it is less about what the Learning Channel puts on than why they are successful.That is, the Learning Channel has discovered that you can’t bring in viewers with interesting documentaries but you can do so by mounting a freak show. And numbers are the point, so out comes […]
There’s a lot going on in the world, but I’m devoting today to stuff that hit me personally.For instance, Jeff Stahler addresses something that has occurred to me, because this year (2017) we’re still on the old tax system but next year, we go to the new, improved system and the year after that they […]
Clay Jones nails it.I’m glad he falls where he does on my daily run-through, because I’d seen several “Putin’s Puppet” cartoons, and, while some were quite good, they just didn’t blow my mind.They offered a lot of comforting of the afflicted without doing much to afflict the comfortable, because Trump supporters simply shrug off such […]
So I got home Sunday night, tired after a 6 hour drive, and flipped on the computer to check email and Facebook, which is probably why today’s Baby Blues made me laff.Yesterday was mostly mop-up and catching up on sleep, but I did have plenty of time to stew over our collective stupidity.All the way […]
Thank you, Darrin Bell.Today’s Candorville makes the point, now that every editorial cartoonist has done a “Trump kills Big Bird and Elmo” cartoon, that Sesame Street hasn’t been a PBS or CPB production for a couple of years now.This isn’t to say that public broadcasting shouldn’t be in the budget. But if you’re going to […]
Today’s Speed Bump acknowledges what we’ve all observed recently, although I’m not finding much greater need to avoid bringing up politics than in the past.Granted, I purged my social media of trolls and the heartless during the run up to the election, in keeping with my well-established “Archie Bunker Rule,” which originally said that nobody who […]
Poor Carmen, the conservative half of the Prickly City duo, has been undergoing a dark night of the soul since even before the elections, in the course of which Scott Stantis brought in a sympathetic Bernie Sanders character and Carmen wound up working for Gary Johnson.Last week, she and Winslow, the liberal coyote, compared the […]
Ah, Pearls Before Swine brings back such memories!All the girls I’ve ever loved!And the summer camp where the pioneering counselors kept a huge jar of mayonnaise on a shelf in the trip shack, made sandwiches with it and then took us on an overnight, which turned into an over-only-part-of-a-night because we had to drive back to camp […]
Start with an easy one: Bizarro recreates the best part of my second bachelorhood.I found myself back on the market at 34, which is certainly young enough for a second try, but it was also old enough to have a little perspective on things, and I didn’t go up half so many blind alleys then […]
(Arlo & Janis) (Anne and God)Let’s start the day with this Juxtaposition.Janis is right: Market forces determine what’s available. If nobody watched the violent, fear-inducing, division-creating, hateful crap on TV and in the movies, they’d stop making it.Arlo is right: Knowing that enough of our fellow-citizens enjoy this toxic garbage to keep it around is […]
Yes, Anne. Yes, indeed.Last spring, I gave up political cartoons for Lent and it was very pleasant, but in times of crisis, you can’t just sit around pretending not to know what’s happening.On the other hand, there is still pie in the world and you shouldn’t neglect that, either. So I have no idea what sort […]
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 […]
(Jen Sorensen) (Pat Bagley)Jen Sorensen notes the ugly attitude that pervades our increasingly ugly culture: We won’t help you with aid, nor will we help you with policies that might let you lift yourself out on your own.Meanwhile, Pat Bagley depicts the paranoid hostility that fosters this ugly, hateful attitude in what should be a […]
Judging from the flood of cartoons about the GOP’s whining, it’s just me and Matt Wuerker who recognize that the media hasn’t exactly been faultless in this.As I noted in the immediate aftermath of the CNBC-hosted debate, the rude incompetence of the moderators handed the candidates a weapon. I’ve got little to add to what I […]