Start with Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal, which happens to tie into this Hemingway spoof I posted on Facebook yesterday. Ironically, “A Moveable Feast” is firmly anchored at my house: It’s next to the john, because I was decluttering and donating and came across it and thought, “Well, I suppose I ought to read it first.”Reading “The […]
(Norm 4.0)(My Dad)I particularly liked this Norm, because my interest in cartooning came from my dad, who was not a professional cartoonist but did the family card each year. This is one of my favorites and, yes, I was the youngest of three at that stage.The cast became larger over the years. This card marked […]
I stumbled over the New Yorker Cartoons of the Year 2015 on the newstand and wasn’t sure at first if it was the current issue or a special, but it’s a special.Or, one might say, a softcover book with a very soft cover, since it’s basically a thick (perfect bound) magazine with the only ads […]
The Herblock Foundation has announced that this year’s winner of the Herblock Prize is Baltimore Sun and The Economist editorial cartoonist Kevin “KAL” Kallaugher .From the Herblock Foundation: In a distinguished career that spans more than 36 years, KAL has created over 8,000 cartoons and 140 magazine covers. His resume includes six collections of his […]
Editorial cartoonist Kevin “KAL” Kallaugher has been the artist in residence on the small island destination of Bermuda this summer. KAL as quoted in the Royal Gazette?Given where I am in my career, I?m always game for adventure. I?ve done a lot of travelling and enjoyed the opportunity to meet different people. When this opportunity […]
Alex is a British comic strip about business, and I’m willing to admit that my years of writing about business, combined with childhood subscriptions to Swift, Eagle and finally Punch may have set me up for this one.However, it’s not so businessy and British that it won’t work for a general audience elsewhere, and today’s […]
Each year when the Overseas Press Club gives out the Thomas Nast Award, I try to stifle both my general indifference to plaques and my specifically Irish-American feelings about Thomas Nast, because not only is this one of the more thoughtfully bestowed awards, but it is not often given to anyone as bigoted as the […]
Kal cuts through to the core yet again.He uses a complex, multipanel approach here to mock the incoherence and inconsistency of GOP attacks with a clarity others have failed to achieve. And he’s funny without cracking any actual jokes beyond the overall conceit, which, combined with the right art, is very funny indeed.Maybe it’s because […]
(Kal Kallaugher) (Matt Bors)A fascinating pair of commentaries from a couple of my favorite commentors.I’m having trouble figuring out why we seem so reluctant to take Karzai at his word when he tells us to get out.Maybe we’re expected to ignore it; Maybe the State Department recognizes it as some of that same posing we in […]
I’ve mentioned my frustration with the attitude so well lampooned by Kevin Siers today.There have been a spate of cartoons taking the opposite tack — accusing Obama and Kerry of foolishness or worse for negotiating rather than threatening, apparently hoping for a chance to send more of our young people to die in the sand.Nor […]
I’m using this cartoon because, in it, my little pal Edison Lee sums up my feelings about New Year’s Eve.Also because I think it’s the only syndicated cartoon in the universe that didn’t do a New Year’s Eve gag about falling asleep early. Reading cartoons about falling asleep on New Year’s Eve is kind of […]
Black Friday and Cyber Monday, with their pretend-bargains and ginned-up gotta-shop hype, have ended and yet Christmas and portions of Hannukah remain.I recently posted some shopping suggestions for comics fans here and then here, and, if you didn’t look then and you’re shopping now, well, there they are.Now some additional possibilities for shoppers who haven’t […]
“Long Past?” inquired Scrooge: observant of its dwarfish stature.“No. Your past.””Oh, &%^# that,” said Scrooge, and went back to bed.The End. Juxtaposition of the Day(Rex Morgan)(Between Friends)Today’s Juxtaposition gets top billing because it really fires up the Rant Generator and I’m going to have to sort the relevant from the visceral here.To start with, Rex’s sudden […]
Kal Kallaugher confronts a political taboo, and though he does it in the pages of the Economist of London, I haven’t heard very many people in the US criticize Israel as being obstructionist in this process either. There is, of course, the spectre of anyone who criticizes Israel being accused of anti-Semitism, which stems in part […]