Lisa Benson (Counterpoint) not only points out the bizarre self-inflicted punishment the GOP is laying upon itself, but her stack of round cards demonstrates the challenge of keeping up with a story that seemingly has no ending.As of this morning, we’re up to 11 rounds of pointless posturing, and even if they resolve things today, […]
I love Jeff Danziger (Counterpoint)‘s dream of an attorney who would come explain the news to those who sit and stare, and I particularly like that he depicts them, not as idiots or yokels, but as regular folks who simply don’t get it.It’s easy enough to look down your nose at people who don’t understand […]
Adam Zyglis makes a joke out of Trump’s call for a Special Master to review the documents the FBI took out of the cartons he didn’t have. Attorneys online and in the media seem to agree that he should have asked for a Special Master immediately following the search, not after DOJ had unpacked and […]
A day for catching up on various things, and we’ll start with today’s Zits (KFS), in which it turns out Jeremy’s podcast was everything I thought it would be and less.I have no idea how much pain is yet to come, because some threads become part of the strip and others drop and disappear, but […]
Kevin Siers puts our current crisis in plain terms: We’ve somehow become involved in an argument in which the concept of justice has been placed in the dock, forced to prove itself innocent rather than, as in both English Common Law and our own traditional system, being assumed innocent until proven guilty. And it’s not simply […]
Scott Stantis sits out on a lonely limb, preserving his professional identity as a conservative while also maintaining personal decency, which results in a cartoon like this.It shouldn’t be necessary to identify a conservative as thoughtful and decent, but here we are, and Stantis’s take on the FBI search is one of the few conservative […]
I have a degree of sympathy for cartoonists who are locked into a schedule by their publishers and can’t simply dash off a piece in response to breaking news.However, to quote Marcus Aurelius, “Id est quod est,” and you need to adjust to the terms you’re facing.I once wrote a humor feature for a monthly […]
The advantage of the Jan 6 Committee holding a hearing in prime time rather than in midafternoon was that more people were home to watch.The disadvantage for political cartoonists is that it meant they didn’t have time to respond overnight, which Deb Milbrath indicated by simply posting her notes on Facebook in an implied promise […]
Jen Sorensen explains the interplay of polarization and bothsidesism.We used to joke about the mainstream media’s obsession with presenting both sides, saying that if someone said Hitler was a bad person, reporters would be ordered to find someone who would say he was good.It seemed like clever hyperbole at the time, but now we’ve got […]
Doing comic strips about the end of the school year — or the beginning, for that matter — is tricky because of how widely school calendars vary, state to state. But, this being the week after Memorial Day, there are a flood of summer vacation strips and this Non Sequitur (AMS) — a rerun, but […]
The Cosmic Timing Award goes to Wallace The Brave (AMS), where this strip dropped the morning after I got a long-delayed haircut and even got a compliment on it from a dog-walking friend. Fortunately, only our dogs ended up in the water and they did it mostly on purpose.As for how long it had gotten, […]
Marc Murphy gets the lead-off position today because we are both Domers, graduates of the University of Notre Dame.As Gibbon said of his own alma mater, “she will as cheerfully renounce me for a son, as I am willing to disclaim her for a mother,” but not only am I willing to claim Murphy as […]
Rabbits Against Magic (AMS) offers an all-too-realistic view of the non-floral May Day in our current days of stubborn selfishness, and I might well have paired it as a Juxtaposition of the Day with … Today’s Non Sequitur (AMS), which reminds us that we are living in Lotto Nation, where everyone expects to suddenly become wealthy […]
Our biggest recent change is, of course, the confirmation of Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court, which has inspired a lot of cartoons, many of them formulaic and bland and others that are reprehensible and make me wish they’d just be honest and use the N-word instead of purposefully misrepresenting her record.I like David […]
Christian Adams makes use of Putin’s long table to demonstrate the current state of affairs, as, in the wake of a United Nations condemnation of the invasion of Ukraine, Russia finds itself isolated from the rest of the world. Well, somewhat isolated. Here’s the vote on that resolution, and it’s not surprising that Belarus, North Korea, […]