(Clay Bennett) (David Horsey)I’ve complained about political cartoonists who didn’t bother to examine the situation in Ukraine before sitting down at their drawing boards (or booting up their drawing boards or whatever one does). I don’t like to belabor a particular current event, but these two pieces certainly deserve mention.Both are by remarkable draftsmen, though […]
Let me warm up before going into full rant:Red and Rover is always enjoyable, a pleasant nostalgia piece about being a kid and having a dog, but the past week has been particularly sweet, as Brian Basset made it a daily reflection on why Red is thankful for his dog. This bravura Sunday is above and […]
It’s an appropriate time of year to ask the question, “Quo vadis?” In Scott Stantis, the Chicago Tribune at long last found the right cartoonist to replace the late Jeff MacNelly: Stantis not only proves that a conservative can be funny, but that you can be thoughtful, even reflective, without having to give up your […]
Glenn McCoy is one of those conservatives whom I like when he’s not being political — the Duplex is often featured here — but whose politics make me swallow hard and move on.Not today, and he’s not the only conservative cartoonist who seems to be taking a more insightful view of the supposed secession movement […]
Some places currently worth hanging out …I’ve praised Scott Stantis several times for proving that a conservative can be funny, a point not convincingly made since Jeff MacNelly died. But if you haven’t been paying attention to Prickly City, this would be a good time to tune in.Kevin, the Lost Bunny of the Apocalypse, is […]
It’s not remarkable to find politics in a political strip, and Prickly City is a political strip, one of a couple of attempts to find a responsible opposing voice to Doonesbury.Which quest has posed two major problems: One is the assumption that Doonesbury invariably presents the “liberal” point of view, and I put “liberal” in “quotation […]
I’m currently working on a series for kids about Theodore Roosevelt and conservation, and, as part of that, was going through political cartoons of the era.This two page spread by Puck cartoonist L.M. Glackens ran in that publication in 1906, when William Randolph Hearst was a candidate for governor of New York (click on it […]
Okay, he’s no Chris Christie. He’s no Lou Christie. He isn’t even Julie Christie.But he is the savior I’ve been hoping would return and enter the presidential race: Kevin the Lost Bunny of the Apocalypse, and now he’s back in Prickly City and ready to redeem the nation, I’m sure much as you would […]
The Brilliant Mind of Edison Lee, with a commentary on the state of education.Edison Lee is a solid little strip that will celebrate five years of syndication in November, and John Hambrock has managed over that time to develop a good sense of the ridiculous, after a period in the early days of being too […]
Scott Stantis marks the start of another school year.Staples will soon begin running their iconic “It’s the most wonderful time of the year” commercials, which not only celebrate the fact that we hate having our children around, but also that stores can count on a nice boost this time of year.I was out of the […]
In Prickly City this past week, Carmen has had the opportunity to go on Bill O’Reilly’s show to debate Alan Colmes. Here is that debate in its entirety.I spent about a year and a half hosting a talk show on the radio in the early ’80s, and, while I’m not sure what my listeners […]
If you’re not already following Prickly City, this might be a good time to start. The election of Kevin, the Lost Bunny of the Apocalypse, to the US Senate has produced some good laughs and the prospect of his making a run for the presidency is promising.For a number of years, the answer to “Aren’t […]
The Charlie Sheen phenomenon has gone from curious to overdone in a very short time. There have been a couple of genuinely inventive applications of his disjointed comments — notably the sequence of cat photos at Medium Large and the Peanuts parody by Jimmy Kimmel’s crew — but it is, at heart, a freak show […]
There are certain strips that I have to restrain myself from putting up here too often. They’re so consistently inventive that they could be here once a week if I didn’t exercise some control and realize that, if you haven’t begun following them, you’re probably not going to.But, while I’ve already mentioned Prickly City’s move […]
Scott Stantis answers the question of whether a conservative can do a funny political strip. This one could get a laff from either side. Prickly City is here, and he does have a collection out.