I’m going to start off with a couple of serious pieces, then go to the weird and silly. I think the times call for some of each.The one most relevant to the blog’s mission is this Mike Luckovich Wells Fargo cartoon, which shines out from a pile of “The stagecoach company robbed itself” sorts of […]
My Three Sons.No, the cartoon is Barney and Clyde.To the best of my knowledge, the term “the hairy eyeball” originated with Chip Douglas. You’re welcome. You’re also welcome for alerting you to the story arc beginning in Candorville. I don’t know where it’s headed, but the voices-from-beyond arcs in this strip are always worth following. This arc […]
First, an opening prayer, led not by Pope Francis but by Brother Leo, the gentle innocent in the strip. We’ll continue this theme in our closing hymn, but, meanwhile, my apologies for addressing other themes this morning.I wish I could be half the fool Brother Leo is. In the meantime, I’ll settle for being silly, and Mike […]
David Sipress jumped the line with a cartoon at the New Yorker site in advance of last night’s Commander in Chief Forum, but the question was in the air before Matt Lauer’s odd and now disputed grilling of the two candidates.I’m not as prone as some to crucify Lauer himself for the way he ate […]
(Mike Luckovich)(Clay Bennett)Start with a juxtaposition and something to ponder:These are both good commentaries on the gap between the image of the United States and what it stands for and the proposals of Donald Trump, and not the only two contrasting the Statue of Liberty with the Statutes of Trumpery. We could have an interesting discussion […]
I’m finding it hard to get too inspired by a lot of cartoons lately, particularly over in the political sphere, and I think I know why. I’ll start with an Ed Hall panel to get the conversation going without tapping into one political wing or the other.This one isn’t bad, but my point is that it […]
I’m not a huge fan of the Olympics, which somehow went from elitist shamateur exhibit under Avery Brundage to the commercial gigantism that followed, though I’m not sure when I switched from being a fan to being vaguely interested to dreading the event.However, Robert Airial captures a factor that has run through that process, which […]
Political cartoons aren’t required to be funny and it’s rare that they go beyond a chuckle, but Jimmy Margulies scores a genuine laugh today.It’s scary stuff if you take it seriously, but that only makes the joke funnier, because it adds to the “oh, what the hell” atmosphere.Margulies offers one of the few takes on […]
Over at Between Friends, Susan’s been obsessing over having been addressed as “ma’am,” yet another installment in her ongoing and seemingly permanent obsession over age and self-image. Having her vent to Maeve is perfect, because, while Maeve has a substantial package of insecurities, that certainly isn’t one of them.However, the whole “ma’am” thing apparently is pretty […]
Today’s posting is mostly a collection of other places you should go instead, but I’ll start with this Nick Anderson cartoon which, if you’ve been keeping up with the news, stands alone.And if you haven’t been keeping up with the news, go here and ensmarten yourself. And let me add here that the Daily 202 […]
Here’s one page of a longer Lauren Weinstein cartoon about children and memories, and how nice it would be if we could ensure that our kids remembered the good things.Go read the rest; it’s not all that long and it’s worth the time.A hat tip to Sarah Laing for that, and hardly surprising, since it […]
Pat Bagley is hardly the first, let alone the only, one to mock the logical gymnastics required of Trump loyalists lately, but he did it well and that’s an important part of the task: Not just to have an idea, but to convey it.There is, after all, a “tree falling in the desert” element to a […]
The traditional “How We Know It’s Canadian” example in cartooning is the red mailboxes in “For Better or For Worse,” one of the ways in which Lynn Johnston famously declined to strip FBOFW of its roots or, if you like, its Roots.Today’s Ben also betrays the fact that the strip is Canadian and, even moreso, […]
… and if that headline touched off an earworm, you’re one of the old folks. And if you’re one of the young folks, here’s your trigger warning: Don’t click that link, because it contains cultural history you prob’ly won’t like. (I learned it as “Mission Sunday School,” which sanitizes it a bit. No, not much.)Anyway, […]
The “where to start?” question was answered this morning by Keith Knight, who nimbly addresses something I’d been pondering.I, too, had noticed that political diatribes have at least somewhat supplanted dumbass food postings on Facebook. And that the political diatribes are similarly dumbass, in that they have about as much relation to political reality as the recipes […]