There are many things that Dear Leader can’t seem to understand, and Jimmy Margulies captures two of them here: One is that Trump genuinely has no sense of empathy. It’s not that he ignores or downplays the suffering of others. He genuinely does not get it.So he can cheerfully toss paper towels to people during […]
Michael de Adder‘s gag is particularly funny because it relies on the notion that this is all part of some cunning plan, and that, if he wanted to give away his secrets, Donald Trump could write a book about what he does and why.Also that his contradictory positions are somehow pleasurable.In reality, he’s mad as […]
Graeme MacKay offers some advice for those working from home.Several decades ago — the kids are in their 40s now — I used to write at home and manage kids, so my patience with people who cartoon about the impossibility of that is fairly limited, though I guess it’s easier if you’ve been doing it […]
There is apparently no such “Chinese curse” as “May you live in interesting times,” but Ed Hall does a nice job of illustrating the times in which we do live, a time in which a madman genuinely appears to believe that he can create truth simply by following his own self-centered, unexamined whims.“Truth” being agreement […]
There are many reasons to like Mike Thompson‘s cartoon, starting with the timing.I hit a point last night where I didn’t want to read the arguing and self-sanctities on my computer anymore and I didn’t want to watch the talking heads promote their talking points on TV, and so I just read books that had […]
Jeff Danziger captures the mood, or at least mine and presumably his.I’ve been working from home for the past decade, so I don’t know why this would be any different, but it is, mostly, I think, because “working from home” always included a lot of little errands that I’m thinking twice about now.Which reminds me […]
I’m getting burned out on editorial cartoons, mostly because they aren’t saying much that’s new or important anymore.JD Crowe has the right to publicize the nitwits of spring break because it took pleas from several sources to get his governor to shut down Alabama’s beaches and get rid of spring break crowds.Parenthetically, I’d be bummed […]
Starting off today with John Aucther, both to pursue his point and to express how tiring it is to monitor social media these days.He’s right about the foolishness of trying to gather everything under the umbrella of “media” in any meaningful way.It’s ironic … or maybe just stupid … to hear people who are fans […]
We’ll start the day with Steve Sack‘s commentary on working at home, because he acknowledges the challenge without going overboard.With about half my career having been freelance, I’ve worked at home both with kids under foot and after they were long gone, and I do recognize the fact that my deadlines have been far enough […]
Alex has been at the top of his game this past week, and here’s one that evokes the unlikely phrase, “The good thing about syphilis …”The good thing about syphilis being that the number of people who need to be informed is presumably more limited, though it does bring to mind Jim Bouton’s observation that […]
J.D. Crowe extends the invitation and we should all accept it and gather together, separately.I’m good with that. I’ve worked at home for the past decade and I don’t miss going into the office.But even JD Salinger used to come into town once in awhile to check his mail and have a cup of coffee.Today’s blog […]
Nick Anderson captures the moment, and I would add that not only has Facebook (and Twitter, for that matter) become a seething cauldron of coronavirus stupidity but seems to be ramping up the political idiocy as well.And while I chuckle, too, at all the cartoonists saying they’ve practiced social isolation all their lives, part of […]
I’m going to try to be mostly critical in a literary rather than a social sense today, starting with Steve Breen’s simple expression of the situation.I had our next issue planned with a review of “My Spy,” but the reviewer dropped me an email to say she’d gone to the screening, but the release date […]
Greg Kearney, cartooning for the Atchison (Kansas) Globe, offers a bit of nostalgia and regret for the days when world events happened “out there.”A whole lot has changed, much of it in the past half century but much of that has been a sudden acceleration of a developing trend.One of the things I used to […]
Matt Wuerker suggests what we have to fear, though not only do we have to fear fear itself, but we also have to fear not fearing enough.It’s a particular challenge for cartoonists because commenting on the fear shouldn’t negate the need to be reasonably and sensibly cautious. It doesn’t help that Dear Leader has chosen not […]