Today’s Big Nate is part of a story arc on the topic of Prank Day, which I guess is a thing. Not only is it featured in a syndicated comic strip — which is my definition of when something becomes a thing — but I remember about 15 years ago when kids swiped a real […]
Let’s start with the Birthday Boy, because it’s one of the few bright spots in the day.Garfield turns 40 today and there’s a hoohah going on including a book and a lot of coverage.Rather than simply steal his links, I’m going to let DD Degg provide them.But I will add to his collection the interview I […]
Alex Hallatt may have just been going for the pun in today’s Arctic Circle, but it struck me another way, which is one of the perils of cartooning.In 2007, I wrote a newspaper serial story for the New York News Association, a piece of historical fiction set in New York City in the 1890s and […]
Bruce Plante expresses the most honest opinion of the Inspector General’s Report, which is that both sides can find plenty to dislike in it.Though, while he’s certainly right, both sides are instead claiming victory, which generally suggests three things:One is that the report is long and, while not extraordinarily complex, has found problems in how the […]
If you follow comic news at all, you are likely aware that the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette finally quit torturing Rob Rogers and fired him yesterday.Rather than recoup it all, here are some links to coverage: Michael Cavna at Comic Riffs, Rob Tornoe at Philly News, the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review and the Post-Gazette itself.Plus, confirming what I wrote […]
Juxtaposition of the Day (Arctic Circle) (Frazz)We’ll start with two gags based on misunderstanding the meaning of Flag Day, and then move on to misunderstandings that aren’t in the least funny.And let me disclose right up front that I am an old fart, old enough that I found these two strips funny because I come […]
Twitter is becoming more sensitive to potential triggers and upsetting graphics generally, and so chose to automatically hide the disturbing photo in this tweet, as passed along by Michael de Adder.However, I trust his judgment enough to know that, however horrifying the picture might be, it was making an important point, so I clicked on […]
Editorial cartoonists struggled to say much of anything witty or insightful about the Trump/Kim Summit, though perhaps they’ll do better once there is more indication of what actually happened.Meanwhile, I like Mac’s take, if for no other reason than that I’ve seen some “Kim is crazy” cartoons, which makes me wonder who they think he’s […]
Signe Wilkinson leads off with the most trivial of today’s topics, the legalization of sports betting, or, more precisely, the ruling that you can’t forbid states from legalizing it.Most of the professional leagues and the NCAA are against it, because they feel sports betting can breed corruption.And, aside from the 1950 college basketball point-shaving scandal, and […]
Wallace the Brave is really growing on me. It’s been around for three years, so I can’t say that it’s because Will Henry is finding his niche. I think it is just a subtle enough comic that it takes a little while for it to really get under your skin.I’ve had it on my daily […]
I’ve been back and forth on Bill and Monica and #MeToo, but I can certainly endorse Mike Thompson’s take.There are a million layers to this whole thing and ain’t none of them clean and clear, but the one that rises to the surface is that Bubba wasn’t dragged kicking and screaming back into the limelight.As […]
Pearls Before Swine offers the best possible kickoff for Friday Funnies, and I couldn’t be more pleased to not do politics today.Even if I were in the mood, it’s going to take me a little while to process the apparent fact that Bill Clinton is once again our president. Or something. Anyway, he’s suddenly all […]
Juxtaposition of 15 Years (Ann Telnaes, July 7, 2003) (Ann Telnaes, June 7, 2018)This is the way the world ends, not with a bang but a fanfare.Nearly 15 years ago to the day, Telnaes captured an array of horrors, because it wasn’t just Bush and his cronies — Ashcroft in this case — piping a […]
This blank panel represents several cartoons that got the Supreme Court’s decision in Masterpiece Cake Shop v Colorado Civil Rights Commission wrong.As said here yesterday, the decision was only about the hearing before that commission, not about whether the baker had the right to refuse service, though the confusion is not unprecedented.In the 1966 landmark […]
Kevin Siers may have done the unforgiveable and read the decision, written by Justice Kennedy, the concurrence by Justice Kagan, the less striking concurrence by Justice Gorsuch and the passionate dissent by Justices Ginsburg and Sotomayer, as well as Thomas’s concurrence, which emphasizes the art-aspect.Despite a flood of angry, pro-LGBTQ cartoons, this was not a […]