Every once in awhile, and Lord knows more often than anyone has a right to expect, xkcd comes out with a major project. In the past, it’s been wonderful, gigantic graphics that would drag you, quite willingly, into a long, minute exploration of some fact that matters or at least reveals.This one is smaller and […]
If you are American, you can probably guess most of what’s going on in this Africartoons contribution by Rico Schacherl: Demands made on schools but no resources provided.Specifically, the African National Congress, South Africa’s ruling party, wants to declare teaching an essential service with the goal of ending teacher strikes. As with all such moves, […]
Transposition of the day: On my Facebook newsfeed, Rico Schacheral had linked these words of wisdom to aspiring writers, to which I commented that writers should quit reading about writing and actually write something. Not that I want to upset the lucrative trade in catering to dreamers, mind you. Not when I have an exercise bike […]
Nelson Mandela — “Madiba” (his clan name in Xhosa, used affectionately throughout his multicultural nation) — turns 94 today, and South African cartoonists joined in a sort of benevolent conspiracy to wish him a happy birthday. My favorite is this gentle thank-you from Nanda Soobben, which is not only a very nice caricature of the man […]
Rico Schacherl, known in these parts as half the Madam & Eve team, has also been cartooning for Finweek, a business weekly in South Africa, where apparently management is just as hip as they are in the United States and elsewhere.Rupert Murdoch doesn’t have a computer on his desk either. I’ll bet he doesn’t even […]
You won’t get this Madam & Eve without you have seen this viral video from YouTube of a meeting between a hapless cyclist and a hartebeest:While the M&E gang apply it to South African events — and, hey, it happened down there, so they’re more than entitled to take it local — I don’t think […]