Kevin Siers proves that you can breathe life into any tired trope if you are clever and the facts align.The Pinocchio gag may, like Hitler references, have been rolled out too early and used too often, beaten into cliche before we realized how much we were going to need it. Or maybe it’s just that […]
(Sherman’s Lagoon) (Rudy Park)And so it begins. Time for the Baby Boomers to shuffle off this mortal coil and let Gen X take the spotlight, poor bastards.Sherman makes the cultural references while Rudy takes the viewpoint and it’s music to my weary old ears. Now we can just f-f-f-f-fade away. It’s really happening and I know that […]
Let’s start with Nick Anderson’s commentary on the Senate Healthcare Bill. It’s colorful and it cracked me up and Mitch McConnell running away with his pants on fire is not only funny but a nice alternative to the Brer Tortoise personna most cartoonists have adopted for him. (Perhaps the royalties from that are why Jon Stewart […]
Zits made me laugh, but I quickly realized it’s a bit out of date, since over-controlling mothers these days are not foiled by distance.I’m not sure I accept the helicopter parent horror stories of college administrators — that is, I believe they happen, but I suspect they aren’t so frequent as to be typical.Or, as the […]
Let’s start today with the fact that you can’t expect the mass of people to follow the scientific process, by which I mean going where the evidence leads rather than interpreting the evidence in terms of their predisposed assumptions.In “La Cucaracha,” Lalo Alcaraz notes today that Trump is getting a lot of support from the Russians, […]
I’ll start with the fun, easy one: Bliss.I don’t know Harry Bliss (though he lives right next door in Vermont), but this has the hallmarks of a comic drawn from life.For one thing, another cartoonist has long since confessed to me that he used to sing the Velvet Underground’s “Sunday Morning” to his baby, so I’m […]
Sometimes comics offer commentary on the news and sometimes they don’t. Given that Scott Stantis pays attention to what’s happening in space, it’s possible today’s Prickly City was inspired by the discovery of Earth’s second moon, a story that quickly fizzled into cosmic trivia under more careful scrutiny.Turns out that our “second moon” is a […]
As this Lenten avoiding-political-cartoons things progresses, I’m finding how hard it is to draw the line, not simply because so many strips specifically include politics, but because even the ones that don’t — like today’s Daddy’s Home — take on a political spin when your feed is suddenly full of conspiracy theories based on Scalia’s […]
The reverberations of the Ted Cruz organ-grinder cartoon persist as we near the anniversary of the Charlie Hebdo murders, and if any clarity has emerged from either, it is that you can not argue a fool into understanding.The true folly is to recognize that a person is either deliberately lying or genuinely incapable of understanding, and […]
… and the “snow means global change is wrong” cartoons are flooding in as they do each year at this time … but let’s talk about other things people should learn in middle school … Big Nate goes after a fairly fat, slow-moving target, but one with particular resonance for me.My pay-the-rent gig involves assigning and editing […]
I have always had a visceral dislike for prolonged, outward mourning. In recent years, it has come from seeing how often a “commemorative issue” is no more than a cynical mask for piling up some single copy sales, but even as a 13-year-old nearing 14, I went outside and ran around the yard during JFK’s […]
Tom Tomorrow with a chatty but point-on commentary about the health care issue.Speaking of JFK (and isn’t everyone?), he used to quote an aphorism, “success has many fathers, failure is an orphan,” and the piling on over the botched roll-out of a main portion of the Affordable Care Act has certainly been a stunning example […]
This is the way the blog begins, not with a bang but a whimper.I was diagnosed with diabetes a year or so ago, though I’ve now lost enough weight that, if I’d been here then, I wouldn’t have been diagnosed, but it’s like being pregnant: There’s no going back and I have to exercise the […]
Pearls Before Swine, with a message from God that He really wants me to rant about self-consciously writery writing.Which is to say, He’s a little miffed that the strip Anne Gibbons did for Six Chix yesterday made my short list but then I wrote about something else. So now He’s re-introduced the concept in starker […]
Matt Wuerker on the inability of the media to focus on any but the low-hanging, sparkly fruit.Granted, the GSA scandal is easy coverage, since there’s no possible justification for the wretched excess involved, and I suspect that, if they had gone to Seattle, stayed in penthouse suites and gorged on Kobe beef and caviar while […]