I like Mike Luckovich’s obit cartoon for Barbara Bush, because it suggests an edge to her that I could certainly see and that others reported from time to time.And which you sure wouldn’t pick up on from the mawkish, sentimental glurge so many other cartoonists provided.I would normally despise a tear in a cartoon, particularly […]
Having appropriately devoted yesterday to the passing of Mort Walker, here are a few Sunday cartoons I might otherwise have run, starting with this hail-and-farewell from Piranha Club.Bud Grace is his early 70s, so I don’t begrudge him the retirement, but I’m certainly going to miss the strip, which appears to be petering out in […]
We’ll start with the least significant but most fun piece, Joe Heller’s reminder that next Wednesday in the early early you can catch a Super Blue Blood-Moon Eclipse. He left off the “blood-moon” part because it’s kind of silly: The moon gets coppery red in a total eclipse so that “blood-moon eclipse” is an overly dramatic way […]
Juxtaposition of the Stupid, Part One (Frazz) (Grand Avenue) (Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal)It’s only fair to start by admitting that I have no idea what SMBC is talking about, because, when I took physics back in the Dark Ages, we just had to memorize some formulas about water displacement and things falling down.That was pretty […]
So Animatronic Trump has come to Earth and I’m blaming Ray.Animatronic Trump is nearly as scary as the real one. I’ve never been to the Hall of Presidents or the Magic Kingdom at all, though I did visit Disneyland back when I was 9 and Donnie was 13, before Disneyland began banning men with long […]
I recently shelled out good money for a very disappointing book, but I’m not going to say which one, only that it falls within the category I wish publishers would use for that non-fiction edumacational stuff: “Graphic Lecture.”It’s not like just that particular one was boring.I keep getting fooled into buying “graphic novels” that don’t […]
Mike Luckovich gets top honors today for going beyond the obvious to cover Al Franken’s scandal without ignoring the facts.The massive piling on happens to coincide with my growing disenchantment with social media and does nothing to diminish it, though it is proof of non-partisanship, if not “fairness,” on the part of the media.Way too […]
As noted before, I love it when the elements of the Juxtaposition of the Day happen to fall together on my feed, in this case, Mike Peters and Mike Smith over at Comics Kingdom.There are two elements at play here, the overall being the chance of Dear Leader starting a war, which is very much […]
If we can’t run our own country competently, we can at least provide amusement for the rest of the planet, and Zapiro provides a handy guide for his fellow Africans to their new neighbor, Nambia. And, by the way, if you want to go visit beautiful Nambia, you can refuel your plane in Puerto Rico, because […]
Once again, Marian Kamensky takes advantage of the time difference between Austria and the United States to get his commentary in before anyone here can catch up.However, the Washington Post did hit the virtual street this morning with not only the facts of Trump’s Friday Night Special, but a bit of analysis and commentary as […]
There are other things going on in the world than “two insane nitwits waving nuclear weapons,” and Phil Hands takes note of the promises of Foxxcon in Wisconsin.Which, like Jack and the Beanstalk and so much more, relies on people believing things they really ought not to. Jack emerged from the story a hero, but he […]
Having just spent a few days in the company of a pair of kids who, if they want to go to the park, tell their folks they’re going to the park, and who are occasionally left alone for a little while, today’s Rudy Park got a pretty good laff.I’m not about to start posting those […]
Mike Luckovich does well on a topic over which just about everyone else whiffed.I don’t mind the flood of Teary-Eye cartoons, because, while they’re not very helpful or creative, they’re inevitable and if they sell, that’s on the editors who made a cheesy choice.Ditto with the various plays on “Our National Pastime,” which say nothing except, […]
Paul Ryan’s bizarre defense of the President has struck a lot of people as funny, at least in the peculiar sense if not the ha-ha sense, and Kevin Siers makes a nice meld of Ryan’s loyal explanation that his party’s figurehead is simply incompetent with Trump’s delusional sense of self-importance.It’s an example of a style […]
Once again a Prickly City strip defies lead time constraints, thanks to a situation that feels both predictable and insoluable. There is a chance that Scott Stantis will get his tail in a crack one day, that some event will shake things up to the point where he’s suddenly stuck with a lineup of strips that […]