Wading over to Mike Peterson’s side on the pool.The “New” Woke SupermanWell it seems the new Superman movie is just too woke for the right wing pundits and cartoonists. Accusations that James Gunn has “politicized” Superman come laughably late, as the world’s most famous superhero has always been political, write narrative strategist Andrew Slack and […]
Douglas Rodger saluted American workers with this Labor Day cartoon in the San Francisco News a century ago, but, in Chicago, my grandmother was involved in a different sort of labor, and I am rising to a point of personal privilege today.In those days, fathers were banished to the waiting room, and so in a […]
We defer to the Honolulu Star-Bulletin to set the scene for November 11, 1942, the first Armistice Day after Pearl Harbor.It had been a busy 11 months, and, while troops of the French puppet government were defeated in Africa, Rommel was still hanging on: Two days later, papers would bring news of the British victory […]
I felt like we’d had enough politics for a while and so was delighted to find a funny little cartoon about a rat …And, boy, is he right. Trump finally announced his awards for “fake news” and they don’t stand up to much examination, being, for the most part, mistakes the press quickly recognized and for […]
I’ve been feeling a little burned out lately and thought I’d take a break and play around in the files. Having no particular goal in mind beyond that, I decided to follow the example of our Canadian cousins and celebrate the 150th Anniversary of our country, so here are some comics from July 4, 1926. The […]
Mike Marland specializes in regional New Hampshire commentary, but got off a good 100 Days cartoon that sums up more than the presidency.What’s that phrase conservatives use to derail civil rights policies? “The soft bigotry of low expectations”?Yeah, well, there ya go. We were so sure Trump wouldn’t be able to keep any of his […]
Steve Sack takes top honors today for connecting the famous/infamous statement by Nancy Pelosi about the Affordable Care Act with the current GOP discovery that they can’t explain it, either.Pelosi said that the Act was so complex that fighting it out point-by-point in the media before it went into place was foolish, that once it […]
This isn’t really news, since we passed the headline on from Mike Lynch three weeks ago, but Playboy has stopped buying cartoons, and here is an article that provides the magazine’s point of view.It’s worth the read, but what it comes down to is that, in addition to no longer featuring full nudity, they are […]
I mentioned recently that I’m trying to avoid TLDNR Syndrome. Today offers a chance, since a lot of cartoonists have served up strips that require little elaboration.Much as I contend that a good strip makes you laugh because it made you think, there are ones that make you laff, which is different. They still raise […]
(Nick Anderson)(Matt Bors)Yesterday, I was listening to our local NPR station do the top-of-the-hour local news and, in announcing that an area sports team had hired a new coach with extensive experience in the minor leagues, the fellow reading the piece placed emphasis on “minor league” in a way that suggested that the new coach […]
Today’s Dilbert doesn’t exactly give me hope, but it at least reassures me that I’m not alone.I can’t always tell when I’m just being an old fart and when the young punks are actually running wild, but we’re nearly two months past the point where Google killed off the iGoogle homepage so they could push […]
I would so eat at this place! So, sure, have a laugh at the cartoon, but now — come on, folks — how can we get today’s La Cucaracha into the hands of some restaurant moguls and marketing executives?Because, if I drove past a burger joint and saw on the big plastic sign, “We pay […]
Cul de Sac ends its official run next week, though it’s actually been in rerun mode for some time now as friend-of-the-blog Richard Thompson works on the health problems that brought about the strip’s end.Perhaps feeling reflective, or maybe just in one of his frequent Puckish moods, Richard posted some pre-launch Cul de Sac strips […]