Glenn McCoy wins the day with a cartoon that captures Trump’s Facebook Twitter fetish and Jeff Sessions’ situation with a classic film reference.I’m so tired of little blue bird commentaries that McCoy surprised me with a fresh use and got a laff, though I’m not sure how many readers would get the Hitchcock reference. I […]
The Syria air strike cartoons are coming in, but I’m not seeing a lot of consensus, either in cartoons or in social media.Joe Heller is one of the few who salutes an actual, as he says, change of heart, which, by the way, I would note might also be indicated by the demotion (and rumored impending […]
The only good thing about the GOP healthcare bill is the number of good cartoons it has inspired. Here’s a selection of what is a really good outpouring: I’ve been sympathetic to thoughtful conservatives lately, because they are in the uncomfortable position of, after eight years of scattergun attacks on a progressive administration, having to recalibrate […]
Much has been made lately of a cartoon that Glenn McCoy drew, which used the Norman Rockwell image of little Ruby Bridges being escorted to a newly-integrated Little Rock school by National Guardsmen in order to comment on protesters who tried to block Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos from visiting a public school. The above mashup […]
As the presidential campaign heated up, Scott Stantis seemed to find himself in a difficult position with Pricky City, because the strip’s established liberal/conservative banter didn’t fit the situation, though he did reflect a lot of people’s response by letting the strip wander off into comments about disillusionment and unlikely solutions.Well, he’s back and, as […]
Sally Forth starts us off non-politically with a cartoon that brings back memories of, if not harsh suppression, certainly insensitive idiocy. So pardon my descent once more into nostalgia, but back in the day not of junior high as here but of college, we had a rule about vacations: If you missed the last class before […]
First, an observation: If “Law & Order” had been on TV in 1944, instead of beginning each episode with a bit of Lennie Briscoe’s mordant wit, they’d each start with someone staring once and then fainting.The best humor on the comics page is unintentional, and Mandrake has the right mix of absurdity and straight-out storytelling. […]
I’m becoming discouraged about this topic, and now the past few days have seen a flood of cartoons making the same claims: Bernie Bots and Bernie Bros are going to hand the election to Trump.Well, except that it’s graduation time, so we’ve got a few “college is expensive and you won’t get a job” cartoons. […]
Tank McNamara’s “Sports Jerk of the Year” awards are one of my favorite annual events, but, when I was thinking of potential nominees, Sepp Blatter never crossed my mind.I think the reason for that is that I don’t think of his style of corruption as being part of “sports” so much as being part of […]
(Kevin Kallaugher) (Clay Jones)We’ll start the new week with a Juxtaposition about the start of the actual choosing, and the ephemeral nature of caring about Iowa or New Hampshire, though we ought not to forget that Iowa has ethanol and large pork factories, so it won’t slip off the radar entirely.New Hampshire, by contrast, is […]
I may have to get off social media for awhile, because the storm of bigotry and chickenhawk nonsense is starting to become overwhelming.I’m not convinced they represent a majority. It could be like having lilac bushes blooming in your yard, only someone ran over a skunk on the road in front of your house.On the […]
Cantor was dead: to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. The register of his burial was signed by the clergyman, the clerk, the undertaker, and the chief mourner. … Eric Cantor was as dead as a door-nail. Even conservatives like Glenn McCoy acknowledged it, though the cartoon doesn’t make it entirely clear whether […]
One of the advantages of web commentary over syndicated commentary is the speed with which you can change directions. It’s a little unclear where things are going in Syria, and, while people determined to hold onto their set opinions don’t have a problem, rethinking an issue on deadline can get tricky.Still, a few syndicated cartoonists […]
The Flying McCoys call out the Flaming Eejdits. Good on yez.I can’t tell you how much I hate St. Patrick’s Day. But I can tell you that Patrick’s official color is blue, not green, and that, until fairly recent years, his feast day was kept in rather subdued terms in Ireland. They’ve since learned from the […]
This was a really good day for comics, starting with the latest installment of a Doonesbury arc about Walden College becoming a for-profit school. The fact that there already is a for-profit Walden University is, well, something for someone else to sort out, because Trudeau had the name first, though, granted, not by much.But I like the idea of for-profit […]