Sometimes, there is a coincidental theme running through the day’s strips that calls out for exploitation. Today, everyone seemed to be making jokes about lies, or, well, basing their work on them.Of course, dishonesty exists on several levels. We’ll start with Dan Piraro’s variation on a classic white lie: A jaw-droppingly funny twist on a […]
There have been a lot of responses to the NRA’s response to the Newtown shootings, and it’s been interesting to see both liberal and conservative cartoonists reject the group’s reasoning. Predictably, some on the left are in the “Guns Are Inherently Bad” camp, and their semi-hysterical response really only feeds the fear of an already-paranoid segment […]
There have been a number of cartoons about the Republicans — or at least some Republicans — repositioning themselves in response to the election debacle, and, in recent days, some specifically about rejecting Grover Norquist and the raise-no-taxes pledge, but they have mostly seemed listless and formulaic. Now comes Rob Rogers with a fairly obvious but […]
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 […]
Matt Bors on the Trayvon Martin shooting.The shooting has provided an opportunity to watch the responses of a variety of cartoonists, though, to be honest, I haven’t seen any defending what happened. But I’ve seen some that take one element and run with it, including a lot of “guns are bad” cartoons that base their criticism […]
Editorial cartoonists love to take a familiar symbol and adapt it to express an opinion. Weeping Statues of Liberty have become a snide inside joke about lazy, sentimental dreck, after the scores of them drawn in the wake of 9/11. Justice peeking under blindfold is another graphic cliche, while some other cartoonists don’t seem entirely […]