In the fury of reactions to last night’s outrage, Pia Guerra responds with such quiet eloquence that there’s a temptation to simply run her piece and call it a day.Here we are, and the pickup truck behind her might be that of the murderer, judging from what we see on the bumper and what we […]
From a strictly artistic point of view, the father-and-daughter image has been done enough.From a political point of view, it can’t be, and Tom Toles offers an effective, if somewhat didactic, variation.But he’s right: They were killed by heartless, feckless bureaucracy.They had gone to a port of entry to apply for amnesty as the law […]
I’m giving David Rowe the lead today because he illustrates a certain air of despair I’m feeling, akin to Yossarian’s trip through Nighttown at the end of Catch-22.Rowe specializes in the grotesque, but this barely feels like an exaggeration and contains an admirable level of detail that invites you to linger and wander down this […]
For the moment, Barry Blitt owns the Mueller Report, and I think he’s got it right though I wish things were otherwise.That is, I wish people did hear the mic drop, but expecting that much of the public is a flaw shared by Jimmy Carter and Barack Obama, who seemed to believe that people might […]
Bill Bramhall uses a familiar symbol — heck, I just cited it the other day — and this time, it’s no joke and not much of an exaggeration. Perhaps none.(Bloomberg) — Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump’s former lawyer and fixer, has postponed his testimony to Congress citing concerns for his family’s safety.On the surface, we […]
It’s no particular secret to Constant Readers that I’m a fan of Ann Telnaes, but when, quite some time ago, she began to simply add stacks to her “Nothingburger” cartoon base, I felt she was overplaying the concept.However, I may have missed the value of patience and of a sort of quiet relentlessness. This piece […]
David Rowe does have the advantage of a half-day time difference, but I was surprised to find him one of so few to respond instantly to Trump’s decision to skip the 100th Anniversary of the End of WWI because of what is reported to have been a light rain.And it’s a nice merge of the […]
(Tom Toles)(Ann Telnaes)Let’s start the day with an all-WashPo Juxtaposition.I will confess, I gave up on Bob Woodward’s “Fear” about a third of the way through. As noted here before, it felt rushed, with a lot of incidents but without a unifying thread, which doesn’t make for engrossing reading.But it does start with the Hidden […]
But first, Stephen Collins has a funny commentary based on the World Cup, though the tournament may be over before you see this. However, you should go see the whole thing, of which this is a snippet.Glad to see someone, as they say in Britain, taking the piss out of the snobs who brag about […]
We’ll start with a rare example of an artist beating the bureaucracy, with a hat tip to Bado for pointing out this WashPost article.The Postal Service wanted to feature the Statue of Liberty on a stamp. They found a nice photo of her and purchased the rights from Getty Images for $1500, then ran off […]
Pretty harsh treatment by Belgian cartoonist Luc Descheemaeker, and, yes, it’s pretty easy to yell “Hitler!” Calling people “nazis” has weakened the insult over the years, and comparing egotistical leaders to Hitler has weakened that simile as well.I guess the neglected part of the story of the boy who cried “Wolf!” is that he wouldn’t have pulled […]
Just one day — one goddam day — could we please put this shitshow on hold long enough to enjoy some silly cartoons?Well, that’s why I’ve instituted “Friday Funnies.”Meanwhile, we have the above photo compilation for an article from Ha’aretz, showing the cheerful, happy people at the brand new American embassy in Jerusalem, contrasted with […]
Maybe Scott Stantis saw something I missed, but I’m not sure what his lead time is on Prickly City and I’m not gonna go back and look this up anyway. However, and for whatever reason, she made a thankfully short splash on social media recently and, golly, it was like she’d never gone away, with people […]
The order in which I read comics in the morning is intentional: I warm up with strips and save the editorial/political stuff mostly for the end, after which I go to Facebook and Twitter to look for cartoons that haven’t hit the syndicate sites yet.So I was impressed with the Bad Reporter posted at GoComics […]
Jack Ohman gets the lead panel today largely for having done a cartoon before the State of the Union Address that did not assume he knew what the speech would say. I saw several that I suspect involved ouija boards and guessing and going to bed early.I had the NPR coverage of the speech on […]