Rob Rogers is first off the drawing board with this post-Super Bowl commentary, and I think it’s going to be hard to top. The flap over Coke’s commercial has pretty much shunted aside the fact that Cheerios not only brought back their interracial couple, but now with the news that the woman is pregnant. Apparently, either new […]
I meant to put up a “new story” alert the other day when this arc launched at Pirate Cove, but it’s not too late to jump on board. That’s not an off-hand remark: Story arcs at Pirate Cove tend to go on for months and to become absurd and convoluted to the point where dropping in […]
Hats off to Terri Libenson for a fresh take on what is generally one of the lamest days of the year on the comics page.Granted, she’s riffing on the now-iconic movie rather than the over-promoted tradition itself, but I’m also giving her credit for an overall breakthrough: The new wrinkle for the “over-worked mom” theme […]
(Keith Knight) (Darrin Bell)Okay, gang, this isn’t about sports, though that happens to have been the venue, so, if you’re not a sports fan, stick with me.It’s about the difference between tee-heeing over some kinds of misbehavior while going apoplectic over something far more minor. Or, shall we say, the “shades of difference” involved.Here’s what […]
I am not particularly obsessed with age at the moment, despite having just hit the magical Sgt. Pepper milestone, which I noted the other day with some links to prufrockian thoughts of the past.Still, the issue of coming into the home stretch is there, and, while today’s Beetle Bailey made me laugh in a “there […]
Well, only in the sense of using up my store of knowledge on the topic of Executive Orders before the flood of post-SOTU cartoons had arrived … (Pat Oliphant) (Drew Sheneman) (Jim Morin) Well said, all.But, as said, I went through the “executive orders” thing yesterday, so you can scroll down if you missed it, but, […]
There were a flood of cartoons based on what was assumed to happen in the SOTU address, some based on the portions of the text already released, others based on past experience, yet others based on partisan talking points. Here are two that I found worth passing on.(Mike Thompson)(Tom Toro)It might be that you had […]
Amid a torrent of mediocre cartoons about security at the Sochi Olympics and predictably partisan back-and-forth views of tonight’s State of the Union (all of which, in both categories, seem to be hoping for an I-told-you-so disaster), comes this quiet, pointed commentary from Tom Tomorrow.Not only does it stand out because everyone else seems to […]
Here’s a page from “Wee Pals,” the barrier-busting comic strip (and also a short-lived but interesting Saturday morning cartoon) by Morrie Turner. Launched in 1965, “Wee Pals” was the first truly inclusive strip syndicated by a mainstream syndicate, and it literally changed the face of the comics pages. Morrie Turner died Saturday, not quite six weeks after […]
Maybe it’s because I mentioned the fall of Saigon yesterday, but today’s Doonesbury struck a particularly responsive, if dark, chord.As with Syria, I don’t have a solution for Afghanistan, but, then, nobody ever has. Well, Alexander the Great, but that was a long time ago and that didn’t last indefinitely, though it eventually became part […]
(Nick Anderson) (Pat Oliphant)(Paresh Nath)Anybody got a solution to this?I’m certainly not backing off from my previous gratitude that Russia stepped in to defuse the chemical weapons issue, whether it golly-gosh just happened or was a quiet agreement between Russia and the US.But the utter lack of improvement since in any other respect also makes me willing […]
(I began to reply to Dann’s comment about “jumps” in regards to this post, but decided that the way newspapers are laid out is of interest to both general readers and cartoonists. So here’s an Afternoon Special on the topic.)Here’s the inside view of how the daily grind happens at newspapers:Step one in laying out […]
Sometimes it’s hard for cartoonists to keep up with reality and impossible to be sillier. Ted Rall serves up this commentary on the latest bizarre vision from Amazon.This whole concept is mind-boggling, but, of course, not because they don’t have the capability to tell what you like. We already know that, if you happen to […]
I’m going to start with an apology to Brian McFadden. Sort of.Until he signed on with Matt Bors’ site, the Nib, I only saw him at Daily Kos. Now I see his work twice, a few days apart, which is not uncommon with independent cartoons.But check this out:Here’s his current piece, from Daily Kos: Now here’s […]
One of the disadvantages of Facebook specifically and the World Wide Tubes in general is that it subjects us Yanks to having overseas friends ask “What is wrong with you people?”Mostly when we shoot each other.Which I think means that they have come to grips with our imperialistic, xenophobic nation-building attacks on other nations and other […]