Terri Libenson has a talent for illustrating serious points with ironic humor, and today’s Pajama Diaries is a spur towards more in-depth thought. And if Jill’s dismissal of her own talent with “I got lucky” is the germ of the problem, I did get lucky in that Terri provided enough of a clue that I […]
Let’s begin where we left off yesterday, with the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette’s bizarre boycott of their own cartoonist. See yesterday’s blog posting for background, see JP Trostle’s cartoon above for a response I like.And here’s Rob’s latest cartoon. What the hell, if his own paper won’t print them, I will. And they’re still paying him, last […]
Michael De Adder penned this brilliant cartoon back in late August, and I wish it had gone out of date but it is more relevant by the moment.I also wish, I suppose, that fear of the mob were the only thing motivating media moguls, because, when it is conflated with their own Murdockesque goals, it’s […]
Timing is everything in humor and, with a hat tip to DD Degg at The Daily Cartoonist, here’s one I missed yesterday — an Over the Hedge written two weeks ago — and here’s Michael Fry’s commentary on the serendipity.That was cool. Now do it again. Arlo & Janis offers a look at the gracious past, and […]
I really like Steve Sack’s commentary on the rollback of banking regulations.If you remember back when post-Depression banking regulations were first eased under Carter and Reagan, there was a lot of talk about how it was okay because they wouldn’t make the same mistakes that had been made in the 1920s. And we promptly fell into […]
Ann Telnaes’ new comic, Mo, posted its second edition yesterday, as scheduled, but we were back in 1918 yesterday, so I held it.I also clipped it, because the format is ginormous enough that you should go read the whole thing yourself. Constant Readers will know I’m a longtime fan of Telnaes’s work, but this new thing […]
Since Memorial Day cartoons seem predictable, I thought I’d go back a century and see what they were doing then, when it was still called Decoration Day. E.A. Bushnell kicks off our coverage. The US was in the middle of the World War, on the verge of having a million men in Europe and not far […]
Start with the news, from DD Degg at the Daily Cartoonist via Tom Heintjes of Hogan’s Alley, with the smiling, self-posted face of Mark Parisi, who won the “It’s Not Actually A Reuben” award last night in the category of Newspaper Panels for Off the Mark.Here are the rest.Only the big one at the end […]
I’ve criticized — perhaps even “railed against” — young cartoonists for either misinterpreting history or presenting it as some new discovery when it’s always been there for anyone who wanted to know it.It’s only fair, then, to praise this piece from the Nib, “1968: The Revolution That Almost Was,” by Julia Aleksayeva, who looks at 1968 […]
Heart is a cute little kid whose irrepressible pretensions are adorable. One of my favorite strips.Because she’s about seven years old.By junior high, it becomes silly.If it persists into adulthood, we’re talking delusional and creepy. The unseen driver at the end is that guy, getting the hell out of town but now with the germ of […]
RJ Matson best sums up Trump’s call for the special prosecutor to stop looking into his campaign and for an investigation of why the FBI is doing its job.This whining seems particularly bizarre coming from the side of the spectrum in which police mistreatment of black people is blamed on black people acting suspiciously. Like […]
There seems to be a bit of dissension among British cartoonists over the government’s plan to limit wood stoves, and Patrick Blower evokes memories of classic Punch or at least of C. Aubrey Smith, who wouldn’t put up with such balderdash.(Though it’s worth noting that this is how the C. Aubrey Smith crowd also responded […]
What are we gonna do with this guy?His nonsensical insistence that law enforcement not look into lawbreaking and his posturing as an imperial power “demanding” their obedience is drawing forth think pieces about how “The Constitutional Crisis is Here” and comparisons to Nixon’s Saturday Night Massacre.Ann Telnaes makes the most dramatic (American) mockery of him, […]
Let’s start with John Deering’s commentary, because the drek-to-brilliance balance on this topic has been way off, perhaps because all the good ideas were used on previous mass murders.Well, not all of them, because Deering hits a poignant note with an understated piece that works on a couple of levels. The first, most obvious and probably […]
A well-named cartoon strip this morning, “The Buckets,” given that the most of the stuff I drink is shipped in them. I share the inability to find hints of blackberry and essences of chocolate in wine made from grapes, and I suspect that I share Greg Cravens’ apparent suspicion of those who claim to.Mind you, I […]