Roz Chast has just dropped a very good cartoon into our laps, a preview of her graphic memoir, “Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant,” which will be released in May but is available for presale.Here’s a snippet of that significantly larger sample from the New Yorker, which you should definitely go read.A good narrative […]
Matt Bors leads off today with a relevant point in an irrelevant controversy: When did we start demanding that our artists, writers and actors provide not only entertaining work but perfect lives?He’s right. If you start going through the personal lives of creative geniuses, you’re going to uncover a mountain of ick in some cases […]
It seems like a good time to note the 10 year anniversary of our invasion of Iraq. These cartoons are from my presentation to high schools, back in those days, and so were often printed directly onto transparencies for overheads, making them quite lo-res. They also were often copied without dates, since they were being used […]
Pat Bagley on the current economic standoff.I like his graphic invocation of “The American People Are On Our Side.” Yes, they are, except for the majority who voted in favor of the Other Guy last November. The whole idea of sequestration was that it proposed a solution so horrendous that cooler heads would prevail before it […]
Pat Bagley notes the plight of a soldier in a war with no direction and that calls upon no American to sacrifice except him. The only thing we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history. I’m really sorry, guys. Wish I had more to offer than “You’re not the first.” In 1985 […]