CSotD: There’s No Hiding Place Down Here
Today’s Arlo & Janis (AMS) is a bit of a Super Bowl standard: The sports savvy guy and the woman…
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CSotD: Effective Commentary
Mike Smith (KFS) makes his own State of the Union report. There are empty store shelves all around the world….
CSotD: Watch Your Steppe
Maarten Wolterink (Cartoon Movement) offers this commentary on the pending confrontation between Russia and Ukraine, and his work falls over…
CSotD: The More Things Change
There are a number of MLK cartoons up for the holiday, but Bill Day captures the essential question of how…
CSotD: An Elephant Often Forgets
One of the myths about elephants is the notion that they are terrified of mice. It’s an absurd idea, which…
CSotD: Between Holidays
I was surprised at how many cartoons were about Christmas this morning. I’d expected some Boxing Day gags and Returning…
CSotD: Holiday Distractions
Dave Granlund points out that Thanksgiving, as a national holiday, was not about Pilgrims. It would be nice to say…
CSotD: It’s funny ’cause it’s true
Graeme MacKay starts us out easy, with a supply chain gag that, for some reason, doesn’t depict a broken chain…
CSotD: Murder on Fifth Avenue
We’ll start this discussion of misunderstandings and outright lies with an easy one: Steve Kelley (Creators) resurrects an old canard…
CSotD: Humanity and Politics
Pat Byrnes (Cagle) joins the masses, though only to mock their haste to be included. Constant Readers know I’ve been…
CSotD: Standing around with our fallacies in our hands
David Fitzsimmons riffs on the 1893 bronze by German sculptor Hugo Rheinhold, in which an ape contemplates a human skull,…
CSotD: Happy Holiday
Clay Bennett (CTFP) is not the only observer to suggest that our newest federal holiday is a gesture without substance….
CSotD: Petitions, and repetitions
Ward Sutton admits he drew this some time ago and it languished in the files at the NYTimes Review of…
CSotD: Popular delusions and the madness of crowds
Mike Smith (KFS) echoes my current thoughts. Social media in general, and Facebook for sure, was bad enough during the…
CSotD: Spin, Hype, Lies
I find it perversely comforting that, having praised Popeye the Sailor Mensch on Saturday for giving away a million dollars,…