The Brexit cartoons are really rolling in now, and I wish that meant that I felt compelled to do another roundup.Instead, I feel compelled to salute Dan Wasserman for having done his homework and then making a coherent point. I wish I had been compelled to sort through more like this.I recognize that some political […]
With longer cartoons, I don’t think it’s fair to show the entire thing here, so plan to do some clicking today. We’ll start with a fun one from Boulet, who has the nerve to bring common sense to fantasy with a pragmatic discussion of superkeen weaponry. Go have a look and I’ll be here when you […]
Tom Tomorrow provides a roundup of the current political circus, and, while I’m still burned out on “bland restatement” cartoons, in this case, bland restatement is probably the best way to sum it all up, because we’re in a cycle of same-old-same-old.And then, in that last panel, he breaks mood, and that non-bland shift neatly […]
On the Fastrack is a syndicated comic with a pretty lively on-line presence, and Dethany, who began as an odd little goth admin ass’t has emerged, as minor characters sometimes do, into a dominant part of the strip, complete with her avian sidekick, Lenore.Today’s strip is a nice meld of the geek-basics of Fastrack with […]
Tom Tomorrow is out with Part One of his year-end wrap-up comic, of which this is only the top two of a five-tier cake. You should go here to read the rest.He suggests there that the flood of stupidity is getting hard to encapsulate in two 20-panel comics and I agree. Years ago, O Best […]
Maybe we’re making too much of this thing, but it’s worth noting that the majority of conservative commentators seem to be either ignoring or mocking Clive Bundy. Granted, Steve Benson is hardly a conservative, but if this the only style of cartooning on the topic that seems to be out there, then ol’ Clive hasn’t […]
One of the good things about living in the Upper Valley is that the Center for Cartoon Studies has grown to the point where they are no longer quite as inward-looking as they have been, but are beginning to reach out more often to the community, so that instead of whisking cartoonists in and out […]
Amid a torrent of mediocre cartoons about security at the Sochi Olympics and predictably partisan back-and-forth views of tonight’s State of the Union (all of which, in both categories, seem to be hoping for an I-told-you-so disaster), comes this quiet, pointed commentary from Tom Tomorrow.Not only does it stand out because everyone else seems to […]
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 […]
I’m starting off with Paolo Lombardi’s obituary cartoon for Mikhael Kalashnihov because it’s exceptional in the true meaning of the word: It’s the exception to the rule that Pearly Gates cartoons are crap.This is actually brilliant, including the fact that he simply shows the closed gates and the sign. No Saint Peter, no God, no […]
I ran into Steve Artley at the Billy Ireland last month and told him I wished he hadn’t quit doing political cartoons about a year earlier, to which he responded that I was in luck, because he was starting back up again. And so he has.A boatload of cartoonists have done Scrooge cartoons this holiday […]
Exquisite timing — I spotted Pat Oliphant’s take while my Facebook feed was filling with commentary from SA friends watching the funeral. I disagree only with the universal sense of unpreparedness he suggests, but I’m going to interpret it as a combination of shock and grief rather than a genuine expression of incapacity.There was a […]
Tom Tomorrow with a chatty but point-on commentary about the health care issue.Speaking of JFK (and isn’t everyone?), he used to quote an aphorism, “success has many fathers, failure is an orphan,” and the piling on over the botched roll-out of a main portion of the Affordable Care Act has certainly been a stunning example […]
Jim Morin’s cartoon amuses me, but it also depresses me.We’re at a point where negativity is gaining an edge, and health care is only a portion of the issue.Thing is, he’s absolutely right. But … well, yeah, he’s right, and what the hell difference is it going to make?I mean, if talk radio hosts and […]
Joe Martin doesn’t do political cartoons, but today’s Willie ‘n Ethel pretty much sums up the current situation and does it better than the “on the one hand, on the other” political cartoonists who simply repeat the same tired “Congress sucks” blame-sharing cartoons. We are media prisoners of the moronically “even-handed” approach to coverage ably […]