(Red and Rover) (Bliss)Yesterday was a snow day, which is rare for someone who works at home, but we woke up to over a foot of snow and the dog was no more interested in going out than I was. So, after the plow had cleared our driveway, I went out once to run an […]
There are several sinking ship cartoons out there, but I particularly like Tim Eagan’s take because of the captain’s blissful ignorance, accented by the fact that we find, in the second panel, that he is dangling at 90 degrees, which emphasizes his serious disregard of reality.Constant readers will, however, wince in anticipation of yet one […]
(Non Sequitur) (Candorville)We lead off today with a Juxtaposition, in which Danae and Susan explore the idea that you can relieve the stress by not focusing on all the depressing things going on around you.Lemont provides the counterargument.I’m not entirely against Danae’s contention that you create a lot of stress by continually framing arguments. My […]
With the resignation of Hope Hicks, there have been several cartoons about the revolving White House door. I like Walt Handelsman’s because it both names the dearly departed and depicts the resulting void and even takes a slap at the president’s grasp of reality, which is a factor in all this.I’m still reading “Fire and […]
There’s a lot going on in the world and it’s tempting to just throw some pies, squirt a little seltzer and take a break from it all, but, then again, we’re at a moment when not talking politics is in itself a political gesture.Still, we can take a moment to watch Mr. Fitz attempt to […]
Edison Lee is early in the stages of a fantasy arc about the first moon landing, and I’m leading with it because I just finished editing a piece about Saturday’s “Girls and Science” program at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science. Which puts all sorts of ironies all over that last panel. Orville is less […]
Joy of Tech hit me at a good moment with this one, because I generally decline opportunities to be spammed, though more politely than this fellow. But, of course, it wouldn’t be funny if he didn’t explode.However, I nearly exploded yesterday, as I was followed around the grocery store by a woman determined to tell […]
Dog Eat Doug makes an oblique commentary on the life of a comic strip: It starts out wandering a bit, then finds its legs, hits the groove and, too often, the groove becomes a rut. It doesn’t hurt that Brian Anderson is, when he’s not drawing Doug and Sophie, doing fantasy work and that he […]
Let’s start the day with a topic we can all agree on: One should not paint the toilet.Agnes is planning to surprise her grandmother by redecorating the bathroom and I will say that, if she goes no further than loosening things on the toilet, a surprise is almost guaranteed.The girls had faced the critical question […]
Bob Englehart captures my current feelings about the Florida school shootings, and it’s a mix of shame and anger.Shame because we should care and I do care, and so I feel a little guilty when I turn off the TV because I’m tired of the coverage and wish they’d talk about Meuller’s indictments or something […]
This is actually yesterday’s Brevity, but editorial cartoons get a little break from the “same day” rule and this accidentally became an editorial cartoon when the administration announced its cunning plan to replace food stamps with “American Harvest Boxes.”Dan Thompson thereby proves that, indeed, you can make this shit up.White House Budget Director Mick Mulvaney […]
Several cartoonists have used the image of Trump abusing either Liberty or Justice or Truth, but I’m giving Dan Wasserman honors on the metaphor because he doesn’t inject any element of light-hearted ridicule into his cartoon.Not to say the others found it funny, but there are times to ridicule the president’s preposterous lack of grounding […]
This commentary from Ali Jamshidifar, an Iranian living in Paris, has been hanging around my files for awhile but each time I start to delete it as too old, my finger pauses on the button and I let it stay.Erdogan’s “olive branch” initiative is little more than a cleverly named but transparent attempt to allow […]
Kevin Siers strengthens my belief that a cliché is only a cliché if you simply trot it out so you can knock off early.The Rob Portman issue is, by contrast, an excellent time to quote Louis Renault, the corrupt cop from “Casablanca,” though I wish that particular expression were not so overused, because this is […]
Pardon me if I borrow a slogan from the 1968 May/Juin riots in Paris, but it seems we’re doomed to talk about Dear Leader’s stupid parade.As it happens, I can sort of avoid politics for another moment and still be relevant, because Bug Martini asks a question that is elsewhere being framed as an accusation.That […]