Timing is everything in comedy, and today’s Foxtrot (which is reruns Mon-Sat but new on Sundays) hits at the right moment.I called my granddaughter yesterday to ask about a seemingly ridiculous situation at a neighboring high school, in which the guys from the football team got together at a kid’s house and did stupid, sexist, […]
So the latest thing is using fingerprints instead of passwords, and passwords will now become as passé as blogs and laptops, according to the Great Gods of Silicon. Which is like Gatorade announcing that it has some great new flavors and the basic green flavor simply isn’t cool anymore, except that there aren’t a lot […]
There have been a number of government-spying cartoons, most of them not all that good. I like Stuart Carlson’s cartoon, but it does more to point out the inconsistency than to analyze it. That is, are critics genuinely surprised at the end result of inviting the camel’s nose under the tent flap? Or is this […]
“Noone is trying to kill you,” Clevinger said.”Then why are they shooting at me?” Yossarian asked.”They’re shooting at everyone,” Clevinger answered. “They’re trying to kill everyone.””And what difference does that make?”It’s good to have both sides upset over revelations of selective IRS scrutiny and of the collection of telephone data from the phones of Associated […]
Tom Toles with a hopeful take on the wavering loyalty of the wage slave. In Wiley’s world, the victims of the new economy are fully aware of their status. Does that mean they are going to revolt? The notion is a non sequitur.There’s a gap between wising up and rising up.The other day, I ran into […]
Candorville is close to being a political cartoon, in that Darrin Bell spends equal amounts of time provoking thought and telling jokes. Today, however, he is letting his geek flag fly, as he often does.And — unintentionally perhaps — proving that we will never invent time travel unless we completely and absolutely change our society first. […]
As Wiley Miller’s Non Sequitur enters its 21st year of non-feigned outrage, he brings to a head something that has been roiling in the back of my skull for a couple of weeks now.People do, indeed, flood to the purveyors of feigned outrage, which, I would note, is not a partisan commodity. There is feigned […]
I love Tom Toles’ ability to create genuinely funny cartoons with substance, and much of that humor comes from a simple style that allows, for example, this plummeting European to maintain a completely bland expression as he assesses his situation.As the EU struggles to avoid an across-the-board collapse, it begins to seem like the Black […]
Colleges in rural areas have a problem each fall, when freshmen from urban centers show up and find that they can’t sleep without the normal background noise of a city. So they turn on their stereos at night, which works, unless they have a roommate who is used to quiet and can’t sleep with rock […]
Tom Toles has won the Herblock Prize for editorial cartooning, which is particularly sweet given that he took over Herb Block’s spot at the Washington Post after that legendary cartoonist’s death.The Post is also home to one of the better comics columns and Michael Cavna’s write-up on this is the definitive report, and, best of […]
Robert Wright interviews Tom Toles in a Bloggingheads episode:For just the past week, Toles has added a blog-like commentary to his cartoons:He talks about the past and future of political cartoons. (They’re dead or could last forever.) There’s an interesting revelation about the origin of the tiny commentary part at the bottom of the cartoons. […]