I saw Ann Telnaes‘ latest last night and wished she’d done it a day earlier, since it would have fit yesterday’s rant so well.And then I realized, this isn’t going out of style and it’s not like we’re not going to have this conversation over and over.The people who bet on Maximum Security will never […]
Bill Bramhall uses a familiar symbol — heck, I just cited it the other day — and this time, it’s no joke and not much of an exaggeration. Perhaps none.(Bloomberg) — Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump’s former lawyer and fixer, has postponed his testimony to Congress citing concerns for his family’s safety.On the surface, we […]
Ann Telnaes scores with her weekly strip, Mo, which began in May at GoComics, updating each Monday.Aside from the speed at which she works — this is the first “Truth isn’t truth” piece I’ve seen — she’s also hitting stride with the strip. Every new strip needs to find its legs, and the combination of […]
Juxtaposition of the Day (Non Sequitur) (Existential Comics – Click here for full episode)First thing you’ll note is that, while Non Sequitur is talking about grammar, Existential Comics is talking about logic,which seem like two different things but are allied in this: In both cases, they value structure over substance.The rules of logic have the […]
This Pat Byrnes panel is funny enough in a New Yorker way — his more usual spot — but the real laugh is that, as noted in the margin, he didn’t sell it to the New Yorker but to the Wall Street Journal.Of course, the gag is that, notwithstanding my talk the other day of […]
Pajama Diaries is one of the strips that I probably feature too often: Either you’ve figured out that you should be reading it on your own or you never will, and if you’ve decided you don’t like it, you’re likely sick of seeing it here. However, Terri Libenson approaches topics that other cartoonists have also […]
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 […]
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 […]
David Horsey leads off today, and I hate to go to the same cartoonists so often, not for my own creative purposes but because, well, I hope you’re giving them some clicks and support and we’ll get back to that in a minute.But let me frame this as a Juxtaposition …… by bringing in Pat […]
Another Nordstrom/Trump cartoon in the rare, rare category that doesn’t involve military strikes against the store, this one by Mike Peters. I would also note that not only did he ignore the “let’s all draw the same cartoon” memo, but he very kindly only put her in the hat and not her full “Babes in Toyland” […]
Yes, I agree with Soup to Nutz and am continuing my experiment of putting the blog together before I look at Facebook.So far, so good. Though Jeff Stahler got me a little fired up, because the topic of phony “therapy dogs” came up at the park the other day.I’m old enough to remember when people made jokes […]
Harry Bliss makes the hair on my neck stand up.Thank god I live alone and don’t have to be told how to tie off a garbage bag. Or maybe not wanting to be told how to tie off a garbage bag is why I live alone.But this is the point where I release the bag, […]
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 […]
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 […]
I heard a story once. As a matter of fact, I’ve heard a lot of stories in my time. They went along with the sound of a tinny piano in the parlor downstairs. ‘Mister, I met a man once when I was only a kid,’ they’d always begin. Pat Bagley cuts to the heart of […]