Between some repeats, some un-updated sites and a continuing trickle of late-arriving New Year’s gags, it seems apparent that having a major holiday fall on Friday means Monday doesn’t exactly hit the ground running, particularly when it’s New Years and we’ve just had an entire week of nobody doing anything.However, at least the crazies worked […]
Romanian cartoonist Pavel Constantin drew this cynical view of the climate talks before the agreement was announced, and I say “cynical” because, while real trees would be at least a partial solution, that tree is, in fact, simply a car deodorizer. Which raises two points:1. It looks like the agreement actually does do more than cover […]
I certainly didn’t go to bed last night wondering what today’s topic would turn out to be. Rather, the question was, which cartoon would be the lead?Clay Jones gets the nod, for having combined the central theme of weariness in his cartoon with an essay that tipped the balance in an otherwise dead heat.Not only am […]
Yes! Exactly! You’re both right!Okay, I’m not entirely sure Kevin Siers meant that, but they are. I think his intention is that it kind of sticks us in one place, and I won’t argue with that, either.Obama is right that repeating the follies that got us here won’t get us out of here, and that ramping […]
(Jen Sorensen) (Pat Bagley)Jen Sorensen notes the ugly attitude that pervades our increasingly ugly culture: We won’t help you with aid, nor will we help you with policies that might let you lift yourself out on your own.Meanwhile, Pat Bagley depicts the paranoid hostility that fosters this ugly, hateful attitude in what should be a […]
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 […]