I don’t often argue with Frazz, but I’d take a spoonful of the candied yams and several of the green bean casserole, neither of which I would ever want on any day but this. (Well, on Christmas, but that’s a culinary instant replay.)Eldest son is scaling down the feast this year, but I hope he’ll […]
I don’t expect a coherent theme to emerge today, so we’ll start with a Tank McNamara of great social significance and then see what’s next.I remember when, back well before the Internet or anything like it, the Sporting News would show up on the doorstep with its analysis of the most recent World Series game, […]
(Tom Toles)(Ann Telnaes)Let’s start the day with an all-WashPo Juxtaposition.I will confess, I gave up on Bob Woodward’s “Fear” about a third of the way through. As noted here before, it felt rushed, with a lot of incidents but without a unifying thread, which doesn’t make for engrossing reading.But it does start with the Hidden […]
Wiley Miller is in the midst of an impressive run of news/deadline synchronicity, with this Non Sequitur appearing just as Laura Ingraham announces on national television that she is not the unwitting victim of some subconscious prejudice but is, in fact, a fully intentional white supremacist who wishes to have our government enact blatantly racist […]
(Ann Telnaes)(L’il Donnie)Jeff Sessions is a busy, busy man, and it’s little wonder that he hasn’t time to cater to every one of Dear Leader’s needs.Telnaes attributes it to his natural tendency to stick his nose into other people’s private affairs, while Norton gets an additional laugh by making it all a bit of confusion […]
Yesterday, I asked for a quiet day when we could just enjoy cartoons and now here we are, mostly because the editorial cartoonists who didn’t have Gaza commentary ready to roll then are posting it today.Their timing was perhaps constrained but it still could have been better.However, the barrier they now face is not the […]
I’m starting a new feature, “Friday Funnies,” in which I skip the political stuff. Given the crisis we’re in, I’m way too often compelled to focus on editorial cartoons at the expense of funny non-political stuff. Friday Funnies will be freed from the same-day rule I normally apply to strips, so you may see something here […]
The order in which I read comics in the morning is intentional: I warm up with strips and save the editorial/political stuff mostly for the end, after which I go to Facebook and Twitter to look for cartoons that haven’t hit the syndicate sites yet.So I was impressed with the Bad Reporter posted at GoComics […]
I don’t know why the funny comes in bunches, but it seems to be feast or famine around here and, while yesterday was a holiday, today is a feast day. So we’ll start with Agnes to which I have absolutely nothing to add. One ought not to gild the lily. Looking for Love in All the Wrong […]
Zits brought a bit of a sigh this morning. When I moved from Colorado to the East Coast in ’87, I was driving a red 1971 VW van. Mine was a camper, but Jeremy’s is close enough that I always get a kick out of the strips featuring it.I’ve had good cars and not-so-good cars over […]
Mr. Fitz gave me a bit of a nostalgia jolt, plus (once more) the wish I’d had him for a teacher.When I was in sixth grade, we were all entered in an essay contest for someone or other, for which I wrote a piece about Buddy, the first Seeing Eye Dog.My teacher took me aside […]
Timing, Part OneL’il Donnie cracks me up on a regular basis, and, as an editorial cartoonist, Mike Norton has the advantage of reacting with speed. I’m hoping, in the course of this week’s Association of American Editorial Cartoonists’ convention, to get a firmer grasp on deadlines and other timing issues editorial cartoonist face.However, the announcement Friday […]
You have to be up on Quebec politics to get this Gary Clement cartoon: Quebec has passed a law forbidding people to have their faces covered while receiving public services, which includes things like riding a bus or checking out a library book.The law, its sponsors insist, is not aimed at Muslim women who wear the […]
News update: Friend-of-the-Blog Brian Fies has lost his home in the California wildfires, as did Jeannie Schulz, though the Peanuts museum is reportedly okay. Everyone is safe, but a lot of memories lost. Pearls Before Swine cartoonist Stephan Pastis reported last night that he does not know the fate of his home in Santa Rosa, […]
Our theme today, to the extent that we have one, will be about people whose company you didn’t want anyway, and what better lead off than dear little Agnes trying to be a social success?And dear little Trout, ever the Greek chorus of uncomfortable truth.Agnes and Trout are part of a tradition of madcap girls, […]