In the sad-but-not-sad category, Alan Gardner has put his blog, The Daily Cartoonist, on hiatus after 10 years.It’s sad because those of us who love comics have come to count on the place as both a quick shot of insider info, often the first place but certainly the quickest for news of both mainstream and […]
It’s a tribute to fear how often You Damn Kid drags me back to my traumatic days of Catholic school, because I only had two years of it, and I barely remember kindergarten, which must mean it was okay, given how permanently first grade is engraved upon my psyche.Most of what I remember about first grade […]
This meme is as good as any “April Fools” cartoon I saw yesterday, and I didn’t see it until this morning, which brings up a pair of interesting topics related to the day.The first, specific to the content, is that the Internet has so trashed reality that having a special day for it is whoa like […]
(Knight Life) (Rhymes with Orange)Since today is “politics day,” I can juxtapose a Sunday strip with a Friday strip in order to make an observation, which is, “Who cares?” and I do not offer that as a rhetorical question. Knight Life is unapologetically autobiographical, with a lighter touch than the K Chronicles or (Th)ink, in which […]
Glenn McCoy leads off the weekly foray into politics with a plain statement about where we’re at.People who bridle at having to vote for the lesser of two evils might be tempted to stay home in November, except that the Republicans are providing two strong motivations for voting: Hatred or fear of one of the likely […]
(David Horsey) (Clay Jones)Today’s lead-off juxtaposition is a meditation on a house divided not between Republicans and Democrats so much as between those with faith in democracy and those with a paranoid fear of both authority and of “intruders” in their Mythological America.As Horsey points out in the cartoon and, more pointedly, in the essay accompanying it, […]
Scott Stantis offers a chilling look at the conventional wisdom, and it brings up a disturbing idea:If we can’t understand why people believe the nonsense that flies out of Donald Trump’s mouth, does believing the pundits who assure us he can’t win make any more sense?That is, we’ve heard media analysts say that people tend […]
We’ll start with something completely stupid and work our way up.One of the oddities of our political scene is that the conservatives who criticize the climate of “victimization” and attack minorities for complaining over unfair treatment and condemn any demand — even any request — for politeness as “Political Correctness” turn out to be the […]
If the guy in Oklahoma had actually been named “Fred Botched,” I don’t think we’d be seeing the phrase “Botched execution” any more often than we have.But the debacle may indeed have finally brought the practice of killing people on purpose to the forefront, and it’s been interesting to see the near-unanimity of commentary across […]
Mike Thompson earns the lead-off spot today with an appropriately dark commentary on the Supreme Court’s official declaration that we are now a plutocracy.It reminds me of an exchange in “The Mikado,” in which Nanki-poo seeks information from Pooh-bah, the Lord High Everything Else (and hence the epithet):NANKI-POO : But how good of you (for I […]
I’m using this cartoon because, in it, my little pal Edison Lee sums up my feelings about New Year’s Eve.Also because I think it’s the only syndicated cartoon in the universe that didn’t do a New Year’s Eve gag about falling asleep early. Reading cartoons about falling asleep on New Year’s Eve is kind of […]
Taylor Jones has set the bar high with a plain caricature of Nelson Mandela, which he admits he drew back in March when Madiba’s health was in such dire straits. And there’s nothing wrong with having one ready. We knew the end was not far, and we knew it was going to be an event that required […]
I went into my various stashes of political cartoons this morning knowing that, with the budget crisis having hit an armistice overnight, a lot of the commentary would be out-of-date even if it was filed yesterday. That may have put me into a mindset whereby timing, fortunate or otherwise, was forefront. Take today’s Tank McNamara, […]
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 […]
Whatever you think of the situation in Syria, and what the US response should be, and whether you think the US should respond at all, there’s almost certainly a cartoon somewhere on the topic that you’ll agree with. The gang is all over the place on this one.I’m leading off with Drew Sheneman’s offering, because […]