There have been a lot of anti-NSA cartoons, but I like this Matt Bors piece because it is based on uncertainty, which seems to be about the only sure thing in the president’s recent offer of reforms.The problem I’m having, not just with the NSA but pretty much across the board, is figuring out where […]
(Clay Bennett)(Joel Pett)At the time of Nelson Mandela’s death, it struck me that South Africans see Mandela has having greatly improved their nation for everyone, while Martin Luther King is seen in the US as having helped “his” people, which essentially means he failed.Just as “Memorial Day” has gone from mourning our war dead to […]
I don’t have a lot to say about Julia Wertz’s cartoon-filled narrative, “The Fart Party’s Over,” and it’s not a short read, so I’m going to explain why I’m sending you there and then … well, then I’m just going to send you there.It’s very compelling, it’s very well done, and I don’t know if you’ll […]
At last, a day when nothing momentous distracts from the fun of comix!Although I suppose I could spin a rant about astroturf fads from Liza Donnelly’s announcement that she’s getting off the kale bandwagon.When I say “astroturf fads,” I’m not commenting on how the stuff tastes, though I’d rather eat collards or mustard greens or […]
I’ve mentioned my frustration with the attitude so well lampooned by Kevin Siers today.There have been a spate of cartoons taking the opposite tack — accusing Obama and Kerry of foolishness or worse for negotiating rather than threatening, apparently hoping for a chance to send more of our young people to die in the sand.Nor […]
(Chan Lowe) (Tom Toles)I’m ready to give up. What does it take to make people finally say they’ve had enough?There’s a cynical temptation to wish that a few hundred people in West Virginia (disclosure to forestall accusations of heartlessness: I have family in WV) had died from the chemical spill, because then maybe something […]
(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 […]
Cal Grondahl of the Standard-Examiner of Ogden, Utah, was cut this week. Cal is a great cartoonist, the Standard-Examiner was lucky to have him and the whole thing is depressing, but, first, let’s look at my favorite Cal Grondahl cartoon, which he did on the occasion of the death of Rosa Parks.I was going to pull this […]
During my year-long sojourn in talk radio, I learned many things, one of which was that you are not supposed to say “And we’re back!” every time you come out of a commercial break.But I’m live blogging again, so we’re back, and I’m glad most of you behaved while I was on the road. Some of […]
The legalization of marijuana seems to be getting as much joking here in Colorado as it has everywhere else, and, while I’m sure the pot shops are welcomed by a great many people, I was out here a decade or so ago when they opened a Krispy Kreme and I think that sparked more of […]
Let’s begin our on-going sojourn in the high country with one more from the Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers:This was a classic primarily for the piece of eternal wisdom in the second panel, which was restated by them and then by pretty much everybody, with mild variations. And, in this one, unlike yesterday’s example, the payoff […]
I’m in Colorado, where, as you perhaps have heard, they recently legalized marijuana, or, as the “potheads” call it, grass, pot, boo, gage, rosa maria, tea, shit, weed, mary jane and/or dope. Which is not what I’m out here for, but the relentless Rocky Mountain High and Doritos cartoons with which we’ve been bombarded did make […]
Chan Lowe knocks one over the fence.I’ve got nothing to add, except to applaud not only the political hit but the subtlety of the Capt. Renaud reference. Not that it quite fits the overused “I’m shocked! Shocked!” quote itself, but he picked up on the bland indifference to morals and consistency that makes the moment […]
I don’t know what to call this Zach Weinersmith strip (of which this is only the first panel), because it looks like Zach Weiner’s Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal strip but it’s over at Matt Bors’ The Nib site, and there’s a different strip up today at SMBC. So I guess it’s an exclusive for the […]
First, the weather:I would note that neither Rick Kirkman nor Jerry Scott live in a part of the country that actually sees much of what I would call “cold weather.” We’ve been grazing 20 below (Note to overseas readers: that’s F) this past week, so today’s Baby Blues is a nice bit of timing.On one […]