Start off with something only semi-controversial: Real Life Adventures.The non-controversial part is that my one-and-only chemo treatment, aside from trashing my kidneys, also made my hair fall out faster and more completely (I was already well along).So I decided to shave my head rather than walk around looking like the accordion man in “Pennies From […]
Stuart Carlson explains the past week’s coverage.I’m not sure which to be less forgiving of in political commentary: Unthinking vitriol or sheer laziness.The notion that editors stir things up “to sell papers” is nonsense, but the analogy of a rock band is not: It isn’t a matter of how many tickets you sell, it’s a […]
Let’s start today with the upcoming storm. Of all the predications I’ve been monitoring, Clay Bennett’s seems the most accurate.I don’t know why summer heat doesn’t bring countervailing cartoons about “Well, I guess there is such a thing after all,” except that I know exactly why.There is a whole category of political cartoons that are only political in […]
Chan Lowe perfectly drew what went through my mind Friday morning on the way to the dog park, as I was listening to the radio news of the previous night’s shoot-out.In fact, the day before,I’d been thinking of how black people speak of hearing about a crime and then watching the news saying, “please, no, […]
The Cartoon Museum in London is now displaying private drawings created by Ronald Searle that he drew while his wife was battling cancer. In 1969, Monica was diagnosed with breast cancer and given only a few months to live. She was offered a course of what in those days was seen as an experimental form […]