The return of Edith Pritchett to The WaPo; Phoebe and Her Unicorn daily replacements; the Barry Blitt CBC interview; Mr. Fish and UPenn; and Topps Baseball card cartooning.Edith Pritchett Returns to The Washington PostLast week we noted that Edith Pritchett was no longer appearing in The Washington Post.After 20 days MIA she has returned to […]
We’ll start with a rare example of an artist beating the bureaucracy, with a hat tip to Bado for pointing out this WashPost article.The Postal Service wanted to feature the Statue of Liberty on a stamp. They found a nice photo of her and purchased the rights from Getty Images for $1500, then ran off […]
Top story of the day is that tomorrow is Free Comic Book Day and a chance to check out what the comic book people think is hot and attractive. Johanna Draper Carlson has a look at what she considers the top titles.I suspect this is a time when living in a major metro helps. Out […]
Jeff Danziger scores simply for making me laff. You could put more into this: He and I are of an age to remember when the Cambodian incursion made Americans fear that China would become actively involved in the war. Now I’m seeing presumably younger people brush off Trump’s insult as if China were of no greater consequence […]
Gary Varvel is only one of many cartoonists who may be giving voters more credit than they deserve, but his commentary is general enough to be a good jumping off spot for today’s rant.That is, he’s right: Trump seems determined to destroy his own chances, blowing holes in his campaign at every opportunity and sometimes when […]
First, an opening prayer, led not by Pope Francis but by Brother Leo, the gentle innocent in the strip. We’ll continue this theme in our closing hymn, but, meanwhile, my apologies for addressing other themes this morning.I wish I could be half the fool Brother Leo is. In the meantime, I’ll settle for being silly, and Mike […]
If Terri Libenson hadn’t just won a Reuben for best newspaper strip, today’s Pajama Diaries would have been a great argument in favor of it.As it is, it certainly confirms the votes of her peers, because Pajama Diaries is a top contender in a niche I wish were less of a niche and more of […]
I’m becoming discouraged about this topic, and now the past few days have seen a flood of cartoons making the same claims: Bernie Bots and Bernie Bros are going to hand the election to Trump.Well, except that it’s graduation time, so we’ve got a few “college is expensive and you won’t get a job” cartoons. […]
May Day celebrations seem a bit muted this year, as Italian cartoonist Enrico Bertuccioli (“Ebert”) notes in this Cartoon Movement panel.It’s nice to know the economy is screwed everywhere and not just in the country that just noted a special centennial celebration. Gosh, it seems like yesterday. Granted, the worldwide collapse is not as dramatic in […]
There are so many really bad cartoons about the shutdown — oh, excuse me, the “partial shutdown” — that I feel particularly compelled to feature ones that (A) seem to get it and (B) make a point beyond “gee, this sucks.”(And, yes, I do think it’s extraordinarily silly to add the word “partial” to make […]
This gig would be a lot easier at the moment if I weren’t constrained by the Prime Directive, which is to feature good work and not snark at the bad. Without stooping to examples, there are a lot of commentaries on the current shutdown that range from clueless to contemptible, and I’m not sure which […]
A few weeks ago, I featured some papal cartoons and observed that the new pope was going to be elected by the same people who had elected the old pope (yes, yes, under the guidance of God, but the same God who had guided the election of the old pope.)And further that this isn’t a […]
The inauguration cartoons are mostly in, and, while it’s hard to pick a winner, it’s not hard to see the trend.While a few highlight national debt as a looming presence or a weight on the president’s back, and some riff on the coincidence of a black man being inaugurated on Martin Luther King Day (which […]
Stuart Carlson not only calls upon the Old Testament concept of the scapegoat, but depicts someone already living on hay, which brings to mind a Joe Hill parody of an old hymn. (Those links provide the lyrics to each)The issue in Wisconsin, and of public employees generally, is not as simple as either side paints […]