To begin with, it didn’t become the biggest story of the week until late in the day on April 4. Prior to that, the Democratic Presidential Race topped the news.This insightful Jules Fieffer cartoon came out a week before a disheartened LBJ went on national TV March 31 to announce a bombing halt and his intention […]
Timing is everything in comedy, but Michael Cavna takes it to a surreal level.Or possibly he doesn’t have an option to set up his cartoons to post at a particular time and had to get this up before he knocked off for the weekend.But I laughed harder today than I would have tomorrow. Though, as Matt […]
Joy of Tech hit me at a good moment with this one, because I generally decline opportunities to be spammed, though more politely than this fellow. But, of course, it wouldn’t be funny if he didn’t explode.However, I nearly exploded yesterday, as I was followed around the grocery store by a woman determined to tell […]
Dog Eat Doug makes an oblique commentary on the life of a comic strip: It starts out wandering a bit, then finds its legs, hits the groove and, too often, the groove becomes a rut. It doesn’t hurt that Brian Anderson is, when he’s not drawing Doug and Sophie, doing fantasy work and that he […]
When Mr. Hiram B. Otis, the American Minister, bought Canterville Chase, every one told him he was doing a very foolish thing, as there was no doubt at all that the place was haunted. Indeed, Lord Canterville himself, who was a man of the most punctilious honour, had felt it his duty to mention the […]
Steve Sack gets the last word on this, or, at least, the last word here.As I suspected, the pages now are full of Roy Moore on his horse and Trump being upset. I’m pleased to see the hoopla, because I think the real significance of the election was that it will encourage people to get […]
Here’s a collection of cartoons from the week after Richard Nixon fired Archibald Cox, the special prosecutor looking into Watergate, which also brought about the resignations of Attorney General Eliot Richardson and Deputy Attorney General William D. Ruckelshaus, who refused to go along with the game.It was a different time.More background: Nixon was in a […]
Let’s start with Rob Rogers’ cartoon, because it’s as optimistic as we’re going to get today.The problem is that, in Hans Christian Andersen’s story, once an innocent child said he could not see the Emperor’s new clothes, everyone else was suddenly free to admit that they couldn’t see it either and never had.A nice fairy […]
After yesterday’s rant about cartoonists who don’t leap into action, Clay Bennett nails one that reminds me that some things are worth waiting for. This doesn’t erase my impatience with a system in which the response is “But I don’t do a national cartoon until Wednesday.” I continue to believe that political cartoonists need to be […]
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 […]
Darrin Bell makes the iconic statement. I like Clay Bennett’s declaration that school shootings are the new normal, but here’s the distinction that I see:Bennett’s cartoon suggests that we’re still trying to protect our children.Bell’s says, rather, “Here is where we are.”And, by God, here is where we are.We’re not trying to protect our children. We […]
Let’s go back 33 years, with this Jim Mazzotta commentary on the attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan.John Hinckley was not a massacre shooter, but he operated in something of the same arena: Attempting a grand public gesture, at which, as Mazzotta’s cartoon suggests, he succeeded.He only wanted to attract the attention of one person, but that […]
I’ll admit there are some cartoonists on each edge of the two lunatic fringes that I don’t even bother to follow, but it is a small and clearly crackpot group. I still see plenty of off-target takes. So when an issue draws a raft of 7-out-of-10-star commentary, that in itself is a good thing.Plus, it […]
(Chan Lowe) (Tom Toles)I’m ready to give up. What does it take to make people finally say they’ve had enough?There’s a cynical temptation to wish that a few hundred people in West Virginia (disclosure to forestall accusations of heartlessness: I have family in WV) had died from the chemical spill, because then maybe something […]
My day begins around 4:30 with a dive into the day’s cartoons, during which I pull out, on average, a half dozen nominees. Then I go back and sort through them to come up with some sort of coherent overall theme or, at least, a sensible order in which to discuss them.So today I had […]