There are many history books detailing the comic strip or comic book industry. A lesser amount of books are devoted to dissecting one particular series, or even a single comic book issue. Some have gone so far as to expand an essay deconstructing a three panel comic strip into 276 page book. Now they are […]
From Little Orphan Annie (Harold Gray) to The Toxic Avenger (Matt Bors) with Molly and the Bear (Bob and Vicki Scott), Spongebob Squarepant (U.S. Postal Service), Chris Ware (USPS again), Barbara Shermund (Liza Donnelly), and Goofus and Gallant (Garry Myers and Marion Hull Hammel)From Little Orphan to Just Plain AnnieA few days over 101 years […]
We’ll start with David Fitzsimmons’ commentary on the militants who demand the opening of society and who insist that the contagious nature of the coronavirus is a myth or an error or a political gambit.As noted yesterday, there have been a plethora of such cartoons, mostly featuring the notion that those who protest today will […]
Matt Wuerker ran this piece several days ago, but it continues not simply to be relevant but to increase in relevance.Never mind Epstein, at least for the moment, though I’d like to see his case sorted out: There is, apparently, an actual affidavit or piece of testimony or something quasi-legal that connects Trump to the […]
Matt Bors reflects the battle now raging over whatever happened at the Lincoln Memorial, which seems at this point to be outrage over young people being used as political pawns, which seems to involve using the young people as political pawns.And as Bors suggests, it’s less about what happened than about politics, and let me […]
(Matt Bors) (Darrin Bell)Today’s opening Juxtaposition hit me because I was just in a back-and-forth on social media in which (perhaps late) I had a particular revelation.The topic was not unusual, but what was, was the willingness of the other fellow to hash it out rather than just sling insults and talking points.His point was that […]
The Boston Globe and The Nib cartoonist Ward Sutton will be honored by the Herb Block Foundation tonight as the 2018 winner of their eponymous prize.According to the Herb Block Foundation site: “We were greatly impressed by the quality and breadth of submissions, with so much outstanding work being done in all types of political cartooning. But […]
Matt Bors really struck home for me with this one, both for the cartoon itself and within a context of his recent work.Bors has become an ardent champion of Millennials, of which he is at the leading edge, having been born in 1983, two years into the demographic. On my 33rd birthday, as it happens.We […]
Company Man gets top billing today out of sheer luck and good timing. I haven’t tried Halo Top, but I picked up a bag of Beanitos the other day.Beanitos is a bean-based Cheetos knock-off. I was on the road and just wanted something to eat in the car, and I’ll say this: If I’d picked up […]
I wasn’t sure where to begin today, but Matt Bors offers a nice meld of the Facebook issue and our national governance crisis.Bors often depicts a level of something I’m hesitant to call “paranoia” but which is based on an assumption of purpose and intent that I think the world largely lacks. That is, people […]
So Barack Obama went to the mall to get his picture taken and he chose the pull-down ivy backdrop instead of the country one with the section of rail fence to lean on or the wall fulla books one. Then, on the way out, he stopped at the art shop and got this dry-mounted poster […]
I often start the day with something silly, but I’ll reverse that to feature this Cartoon Movement piece by Agim Sulaj, an Albanian cartoonist currently living just across the street in Remini, Italy.”Perhaps if we listened to our children more, this world would be a better place,” he comments, and the fact that he doesn’t tie […]
Joe Heller gets top spot today for not over-reaching with his commentary on the Cincinnati gorilla story. Sometimes the simple statement is the best, and there’s no need to go beyond the basic observation that the Internet allows for people to be more openly vicious, judgmental and unfair than they might be in person.A lot […]
I’m becoming discouraged about this topic, and now the past few days have seen a flood of cartoons making the same claims: Bernie Bots and Bernie Bros are going to hand the election to Trump.Well, except that it’s graduation time, so we’ve got a few “college is expensive and you won’t get a job” cartoons. […]
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 […]