Today’s first “I told you so” is simply a matter of coincidence: Someone asked the other day what LinkedIn was for, and the response was almost uniform that it is a site for people who want to be spammed and pestered incessantly. And if Benita Epstein’s day in the Six Chix rotation had been yesterday, […]
Walt Handelsman reminds us of a couple of things.One is that, in a political contest, the candidates try to out-do each other. There is nothing inherently disloyal in trying to gain more votes than your opponent and doing so does not make you a demon.The other related point is that, in commenting upon same, you […]
I’m not really in the mood for politics today, but they seem inescapable, so I’m going to break format and start with this Dogs of C Kennel from yesterday, which made me smile because it shows what Mark Trail could be like if Mark Trail were a humor strip.Yes, turkey buzzards and vultures and some other carrion-eaters […]
It’s my blog and I can start with the cartoon that spurs a personal memory if I want to. Particularly if it has some vague connection to a more sweeping issue.Edison Lee has been running for Student Council President, and it’s been an entertaining riff on the current presidential campaign, but today’s unleashed an epiphany, […]
I’m with Jeremy on this one, and I’m sympathetic on a couple of levels that may or may not be related.First of all, a lot of kids don’t know baseball because they don’t play baseball.This is only a “When I was a kid …” rant because I’m a very old guy. It’s not just that […]
Sandra Bell Lundy breaks through the moldy Mother’s Day cartoons with this Between Friends salute to non-average moms.Obviously, it helps that she had already created a non-average parental situation which had previously addressed a real-life issue, rather than simply settling into the Mom-Dad-Bud-and-Sis pre-fab cartoon model.My feed is full of strips that offer up gags […]
First, an announcement: Enough time has now passed that it is no longer a coincidence to depict Donald Trump as a butcher who hacked an elephant into pieces. Stop it.Besides, David Horsey appears here too often for my fair-use comfort level, for which reason I wish someone else had made this excellent historic parallel, because I can hardly […]
If you’ve visited here more than, oh, two or three times, you know I have an affection for gallows humor.The gallows, however, need to be somewhat metaphorical, and, as Matt Bors points out here, gags about what a “gift” the current campaign is for cartoonists aren’t particularly funny or insightful.Or original, for that matter. Every clownish […]
The Whole World Is Watching and Matt suggests the whole world’s reaction and how I wish I had some clever riposte.Or could at least, as the song suggests, call the whole thing off.There are also plenty of American cartoons about Trump’s victory, but few of them illuminate anything we couldn’t see before. In fact, nothing even […]
Pat Bagley, on an extremely troubling phenomenon in the closing hours of the primary process.I had already looked at this piece as a possibility here because, unlike a number of related cartoons, it doesn’t assume a lot of facts not in evidence, the chief one being whether there really is a significant “Bernie Bros” phenomenon.It’s […]
(Kevin Kallaugher) (David Fitzsimmons) The GOP is convinced Trump’s candidacy t’is but a flesh wound, as Kal notes, while Fitz explains the current status of the Sanders’ campaign.Consider this a rare Juxtaposition of Actually Getting It, as both cartoonists cut through floods of less perceptive commentary and get down to what’s what.I’ve resisted the bundling of […]
Amid the flood of Prince obituary cartoons, Keith Knight instead brings back a substantial tribute he created when the musician was alive, the rest of which you should go read.It’s worth your time, whether you are a grieving fan or someone wondering what all the fuss is about.Keef did a couple of these pieces, including one about Stevie […]
Local editorial cartoons are a great reason newspapers ought to employ their own cartoonists and not rely on syndicated material, and here the Chron’s Nick Anderson focuses on the flooding that has devastated Houston for a second straight spring and, as the markers on the door tell, several others as well.At this stage, Anderson only notes […]
With longer cartoons, I don’t think it’s fair to show the entire thing here, so plan to do some clicking today. We’ll start with a fun one from Boulet, who has the nerve to bring common sense to fantasy with a pragmatic discussion of superkeen weaponry. Go have a look and I’ll be here when you […]
Stuart Carlson explains the past week’s coverage.I’m not sure which to be less forgiving of in political commentary: Unthinking vitriol or sheer laziness.The notion that editors stir things up “to sell papers” is nonsense, but the analogy of a rock band is not: It isn’t a matter of how many tickets you sell, it’s a […]