As I was just saying, humor has become an essential part of political cartooning, at least if you want your cartoons to appear in the papers. I suspect that Jeff Koterba has a pretty good chance with this one.Those who can’t fathom the politics will still get a kick out of the gag.He had an […]
The timing on today’s Rudy Park is excellent, as Facebook works towards its Initial Public Offering and analysts start to question whether its value has already peaked.I even heard someone suggest that we might be seeing a second round of the dot-com bubble.The timing is more fortuitous than planned, I’m quite sure, given lead times […]
Pat Oliphant does a really nice job of making political points with extremely funny artwork. That’s important, not only because it results in memorable and effective commentary, but because many of the cloth-eared grammarians who edit newspapers think that all cartoons are supposed to be funny and won’t choose a political cartoon that doesn’t include […]
Drew Litton on the decision facing Indianapolis Colts Quarterback Peyton Manning, who is near, or perhaps at, the end of a brilliant 14-year career.Well, brilliant 13-year career. He sat out this past season after neck surgery described as “cervical neck fusion,” but it’s not clear whether the second operation was a follow-up on the first […]
Blondie is a strip so settled in its groove that most days you read it out of habit and with fairly low expectations. But when it’s not recycling the character-driven jokes — Dithers is a bully, Herb borrows tools, Dagwood likes to eat — there are some gems in there and it’s actually one of […]
Pardon My Planet, with a cartoon I cannot relate to.Not the laundry part. Oh, I’m there.The fitting into your old clothes part. I think this cartoon is for people under 40.Eight or 10 years ago, I finally got rid of the suit I was married in at 21, realizing that I would never, ever be […]
Stuart Carlson riffs on what could turn out to be a magic moment in the campaign.At this point, I’m less interested in the fact that Newt Gingrich is promising to have a moon base up and running in nine years than I am in seeing who else — besides Carlson and Jon Stewart — is […]
Friend-of-the-blog Sandra Lundy is in the process of giving the ladies of Between Friends a bit of an update. I guess it began with Maeve’s new haircut, but now she’s making Susan try to climb out of schlumpdom.Which is sorta-kinda an ongoing theme in the strip, except that there was a recent series that, she […]
This Clay Jones cartoon ran in the Free Lance-Star of Fredericksburg, VA, Monday. As of yesterday, he reported on Facebook, they were up to 18 hate letters, two cancellations and “a couple” of letters to the editor protesting the piece.It’s not a perfect takedown on the events at the end of Paterno’s career: According to […]
So many of the characters in Pros & Cons appear totally demented that it’s interesting to see how rational Kieran Meehan decided to make this fellow appear.It’s really the only way the gag could work: He has to appear completely rational or the focus of his madness becomes irrelevant and he might as well just […]
As reported earlier, Cul de Sac creator Richard Thompson has put the strip into reruns for a few weeks while he undergoes some Parkinson’s therapy, but, since Sundays are generally on a different schedule and I don’t remember ever seeing this one, I think it’s new.And I don’t much care if it’s a rerun because […]
Oh, lord, where to begin?Matt Bors did this very funny cartoon in response to the bizarre marketing campaign for the 10-calorie version of Dr. Pepper. When I say “bizarre,” I mean this commercial, which Matt has linked with his comic at Daily Kos, probably because, if you haven’t seen it, you wouldn’t get the point […]
I’m currently working on a series for kids about Theodore Roosevelt and conservation, and, as part of that, was going through political cartoons of the era.This two page spread by Puck cartoonist L.M. Glackens ran in that publication in 1906, when William Randolph Hearst was a candidate for governor of New York (click on it […]
Real Life Adventures features a real life issue, but one I kind of hope is a little misaddressed. Or maybe, like a lot of domestic comedy, based on something that would have happened a generation ago but not now.Please?Okay, probably not.Real Life Adventures is a cartoon I really enjoy, in large part because the blandness […]
Oatmeal(Animated gifs can be a little tweaky when transplanted, so you may want to check this out at his web site if it seems to not be working here. Besides, he’s got a little more to say and it’s well said.)