I get a kick out of having a Juxtaposition come up on the page intact, and it just happens that Off The Mark comes just before Lola on my GoComics page. Today the two of them pretty much encapsulate my current feelings about social media.Facebook, mind you, moreso than Twitter, which is probably because I […]
Ann Telnaes sets today’s mood, and, while riffing on the Presidential seal is hardly revolutionary, this is the right moment and a good job, and she makes a statement that covers much that is being said.The other reason to have her lead off is that she’s the current president of the Association of American Editorial […]
I’m still on the road, and, while I’m posting from my son’s house rather than a motel, the fact that my Internet connection is fast and stable doesn’t mean I’m any more well-informed. It’s been a nice break, focusing mostly on the early 19th Century rather than the early 21st, but it does create issues […]
(Pajama Diaries) (Pros and Cons)One of the courses I took in college was called “Ways of Knowing,” thinly disguised metaphysics I filed in the “I say it’s spinach and I say to hell with it” category, but all our courses within the major were required, so my opinion didn’t matter.However, about second semester senior year, […]
(Andy Marlette) (Pat Bagley)I don’t have a lot to share in the way of editorial responses to yesterday’s ghastly display of tasteless piggishness on the part of our president, but here are two approaches we can discuss.Marlette simply expresses the disgust decent people feel over Trump’s outrageous lack of self-discipline and self-respect, and it’s hard […]
Between the utterly bizarre ass-kissing contest at Trump’s first cabinet meeting and the useless questioning of The Little Man Who Wasn’t There, there’s not much a cartoonist can do to exaggerate things and make a point, and Bruce Plante does about as good a job as anyone, particularly since he manages to deal with the […]
Once again a Prickly City strip defies lead time constraints, thanks to a situation that feels both predictable and insoluable. There is a chance that Scott Stantis will get his tail in a crack one day, that some event will shake things up to the point where he’s suddenly stuck with a lineup of strips that […]
Frequent visitors to this blog know two things: One is that I don’t think much of awards and plaques and so forth. Too many subjective factors are involved and the main thing an award accomplishes is to impress employers and potential clients, and even that isn’t foolproof in this era of cloth-eared editors and short-sighted beancounters.The other […]
Friend of the Blog Ann Telnaes won the Reuben last night, or, more precisely, “the Reuben Award for Outstanding Cartoonist of the Year.” (The other awards are technically not “Reubens” though they all get called that.)And she deserved it. And, yes, I’m prejudiced.And isn’t it nice when personal prejudice is backed up by outrageously good […]
Yes, that would be a good name for a band. Meanwhile, it’s also a good theme for the day, taken from Robert Burns’ classic poem about a prideful woman in church who doesn’t realize the people behind her are not admiring her fashionable beauty but watching a louse crawl around on her.Let’s start with a Juxtaposition: (Omar Al […]
I put this together the other day, upon the news that Trump had straight-out asked Comey to back off the investigation, but I’ll admit that, at the time, I didn’t actually foresee poor ol’ Sol being led to the car.Now, well … maybe Tom won’t get him off the hook. Maybe he won’t be able to, […]
A little housekeeping, first. As Marla has been searching for a new assistant manager in Retail, hiring Val has been hanging out there as the obvious move.Today, that gets cleared up in a style that reminds us of the boutique Marla has long dreamed of owning, and that Norm Feuti worked in retail for many […]
Retail this week brings back a funny-now-that-its-over memory. Marla was delighted to lose her annoying assistant manager but is now going through the old resumes that people had sent in before corporate forced her to sign him.I was on the end of a “remember when you applied here?” phone call when I was still trying, and […]
In case you thought only America was trapped in the Looking Glass world, here’s French cartoonist Anne Derenne on the appointment of Saudi Arabia to the UN Women’s Rights Commission, a development so astonishingly absurd that everyone from TownHall to Teen Vogue is gob-smacked. UN Watch Executive Director Hillel Neuer’s tweet is being quoted widely, and the UN Watch […]
This is one of those Lord-Where-Do-I-Start days, and Ann Telnaes has won the toss for this salute to our impossibly-not-okay presidency.Her cartoon is not so much a case of being “too smart for the room” as of being “too well-informed for the room,” because she had to append Cliff Notes:Ivanka Trump’s company received provisional approval from the Chinese […]