The Better Half wins the election day cartooning nod. How depressing.Oh. Sorry, Randy. There’s probably a better way of phrasing that.But, first of all, he wasn’t up against a whole lot. I mean, jokes about “thank goodness the political ads are over”? Is that all you’ve got? That’s not so bad for a gag strip […]
How did it come to this?I’m hoping Retail is about to launch into an entire arc about the despicable lack of restraint in the “free market” that we have built for ourselves.I never resented working holidays when I was in the newspaper business, any more than I would expect my son and daughter-in-law to object […]
In a somewhat coincidental follow-up to yesterday’s post about kid-like kids in comics, we come to Baby Blues, a comic about parents for parents in which the kids are as exaggerated for comedic effect as are the situations.I say “somewhat coincidental” because I would have chosen this strip anyway, but it’s a nice match. Baby […]
In Big Nate, Nate’s soccer team has just lost 1-0 to a team that, up until this week, had lost 60 games in a row. He’s not taking it well. He’s got a legitimate gripe. The only goal came on an uncalled hand-ball into the net. His net, that is. Nate is a ‘keeper.But, still, he […]
Boy, a rough day for granolas on the funny pages! Several cartoonists decided this was the day to take a shot:Let’s start in the snacks aisle with Glenn McCoy and the Duplex: Back when my new wife and I were ovo-lacto veggies, the idea of “organic Twinkies” would have been absurd. The only health food […]
I got a chuckle out of Dave Whamond’s Reality Check today, as I often do. But a chuckle isn’t a laff, and isn’t generally enough to get a comic featured here.And it wasn’t today, until I switched over to political cartoons and saw what Nick Anderson had posted: Where is Paul Ryan? Have they disappeared […]
Dan Wasserman steps away from the “wow, what a storm!” pack for a more substantive comment on privatization and localization of FEMA-type relief.Chris Christie’s comments aside, I doubt there is enough time between now and the election for Sandy’s impact to be felt at the polls. Plus, to put a cynically pragmatic spin on things, […]
I don’t know how fresh Will Rogers’s act really was even back in his day, but knee-jerk attacks on Congress and professions of how “they’re all crooks” have certainly become tiresome and dime-a-dozen since. It is not a sign of genius to discover that there are no flawless people in public life and that no […]
South African President Jacob Zuma has dropped his four-year-old lawsuit against cartoonist Zapiro (Jonathan Shapiro) for a cartoon that had shown him raping the nation’s justice system.As this cartoon indicates, Zapiro has not decided to shake hands and become friends.As the web site Africartoons says, this is a happy ending to the immediate problem and […]
As a live-alone adult, let me say that Hilary Price has it all wrong in today’s Rhymes with Orange.Bills? Dishes? Laundry? No way those are keeping me from my comfy bed. I wouldn’t mind if something constructive were actually happening in that space between, “Oh, it’s a little early yet,” and “Dear god, how did […]
Someone posted this Clay Bennett cartoon on Facebook yesterday, and a comment quickly came of how well it was done and that it needed no labels.To which someone replied that maybe it needed labels because he didn’t get it.Which is a little like making a reference to “the back of the bus” and having someone […]
Dave Kellett’s been doing a storyline at Sheldon this week, which he doesn’t always do. Gramps has found a camera with a mostly-exposed roll of film among his late wife’s stuff in the attic, and is trying to figure out what to do with it.Dave’s sense of humor, and his geek-element, are on display so often that it’s sometimes […]
Gary Varvel is a conservative cartoonist.I don’t often agree with his point of view, and, more than once, I’ve found his work more mean-spirited than incisive. But I admire this particular cartoon, perhaps more in context than on its own, but on its own as well.The facial expressions are priceless, as are Obama’s flailing fists.All […]
Political cartooning is not only not dead, but, even as some good veteran artists hang up their pens and retire, there are some good young practitioners emerging.I’ve said before that one of the unspoken factors in the shift from print to not-print is that, just as when movies began to supplant live theater (which did […]
As we begin what appears to be an inevitable shift to electronic format, political cartoonists find themselves increasingly at the mercy of deadlines.The shift may be inevitable. Letting it impact the overall quality of work doesn’t have to be. After all, political cartoonists produced brilliant topical pieces back in the days (not so long ago) […]