I’m disappointed that more cartoonists didn’t leap on Dear Leader’s appalling reaction to the death of Robert Mueller, though Wexler offered both this commentary and a traditional obituary piece. A brief discussion of a country expression: “Were you brought up in a barn?”It can be semi-affectionate, said to a kid who wore his hat to […]
I hit “record” and shut off the Super Bowl last night, knowing I’d wake up to a bunch of spoilers. However, as I write this, I don’t know who won because as I went through social media picking out cartoons, I saw a lot about how great Bad Bunny’s halftime show was and very little […]
There are a lot of cartoons about the renovation/destruction of the White House, but I like Matson’s take because it not only captures the ambitious glorification involved but the combination of fantasy and madness behind the action.If nothing else, we no longer have to ask if Dear Leader believes the things he says, because as […]
Luckovich poses an important question: What’s so bad about being woke? Or, grammatically, “awakened” or “awoke” but let’s hope at least one?By illustrating the opposite, he somewhat answers the question, but it should be noted that the popular slang term wouldn’t exist if it weren’t a protest against and rebuke of those who either don’t […]
I got a laugh out of this Ed Stein cartoon last night.It’s from 1994.I’d given up on contemporary cartoons for the moment, because the treatment of Biden/Reade went so far out of whack that it’s like when you shut down the washing machine because you can take a little banging, but now it’s threatening to […]
While everyone is freaking out over the coronavirus, Greg Cravens is adapting his own date with disaster as a story arc in Buckets, which begins here with the above strip, from which you can move forward, and it’s not over yet.I made a reference to Hong Kong Flu the other day which might have seemed […]
If you follow comic news at all, you are likely aware that the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette finally quit torturing Rob Rogers and fired him yesterday.Rather than recoup it all, here are some links to coverage: Michael Cavna at Comic Riffs, Rob Tornoe at Philly News, the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review and the Post-Gazette itself.Plus, confirming what I wrote […]
Somehow, I lost track of what Ed Stein was up to, but recently stumbled over this and it is very much worth your time to read the whole thing.He’s not the first to draw a parallel between the sad fate of the SS St. Louis — the shipload of refugees fleeing Hitler’s Germany that was […]
Kirk Walters comments on the 30th anniversary of the 1987 stock market crash, which, he contends, harshes the buzz created by the Dow going over 23,000.I covered the 1987 crash, but it was only a blip and hardly a warning. A few adjustments to automated trading software and off we went again.The Dow Jones Average […]
Michael de Adder penned this cartoon shortly before the threats became two-sided, but it remains the most spot-on commentary so far, because a major question is at what point Trump loyalists will shudder and pull back.And the answer appears to be that they’re as nuts as he is. Our best hope at the moment is […]
This is one of those Lord-Where-Do-I-Start days, and Ann Telnaes has won the toss for this salute to our impossibly-not-okay presidency.Her cartoon is not so much a case of being “too smart for the room” as of being “too well-informed for the room,” because she had to append Cliff Notes:Ivanka Trump’s company received provisional approval from the Chinese […]
We’ll start with politics and work our way to less unpleasant topics. Bill Day makes a simple point with a simple cartoon, and one that is not only germane to the ridiculous “worst president ever” claims appearing on social media — even if you don’t like him, you’d have to be totally ignorant of history […]
(Clay Jones) (Jim Morin)I don’t suppose we’ll ever close out Benghazi, but let’s start the day with a juxtaposition that shames the exploitation of the Benghazi dead in the service of partisan foolishness.Rob Rogers points out the waste and the committee’s desperation to find something they can claim as a payoff. As noted yesterday, a couple […]
Today’s first “I told you so” is simply a matter of coincidence: Someone asked the other day what LinkedIn was for, and the response was almost uniform that it is a site for people who want to be spammed and pestered incessantly. And if Benita Epstein’s day in the Six Chix rotation had been yesterday, […]
Tina’s Groove is at its best when it reflects life in food service, and today’s brings back memories, even though I totalled less than a year in the business. As a wise man said, “It’s not the years; it’s the mileage.”The access to a free meal is supposed to make up for being paid sub-minimum […]