The above pun sets a five-cartoon limit on our largest Juxtaposition ever:(Clay Bennett)(Pat Bagley)(David Rowe)(Matt)(Mike Luckovich)I have very little to add to any of these, except maybe to note on behalf of Matt Pritchett and David Rowe that I’m glad we could give them a properly British take beyond sparring over Brexit.It isn’t often that […]
Graeme MacKay comments on an interesting and instructive story most Americans probably hadn’t heard about.Seems a Canadian company sold about 2,500 tons of what was supposed to be recyclable plastic to a company in the Philippines. However, when the shipping containers arrived, they proved to be full of household waste in addition to the plastic, […]
I’m giving David Rowe the lead today because he illustrates a certain air of despair I’m feeling, akin to Yossarian’s trip through Nighttown at the end of Catch-22.Rowe specializes in the grotesque, but this barely feels like an exaggeration and contains an admirable level of detail that invites you to linger and wander down this […]
That photo of people on Mount Everest seemed familiar, because it looked like this picture of people going over Chilkoot Pass between Alaska and the Canadian Yukon during the Klondike Gold Strike.They didn’t all make it, either, and that fellow at the lower right is apparently carrying a boat, which seems foolish but at least […]
Juxtaposition of the Day(Matt Davies)(Ann Telnaes)Juxtaposing this pair is a bit unfair to Matt Davies, because he posted his piece before yesterday’s astonishing tantrum, and so his cartoon is mostly about how much childish behavior the Democrats will put up with in general.But the idea of Toddler Trump setting a fire in the back seat […]
Ann Telnaes lays out the governing principle for today’s blog. All over and in every direction.In fact, last night Dear Leader had another of his pep rallies and Daniel Dale, the correspondent for the Toronto Star, tweeted updates but, at the end, couldn’t find any news or much of a theme, beyond a series of […]
Juxtaposition of the Whimper, not the Bang(Mo)(RJ Matson)Mo and Bartender can fret all they want over the hijacking of the Fourth of July Celebration in Washington, but the best outcome would be a massive boycott and no crowds and — Guess what? — that ain’t gonna happen.Alice Roosevelt Longworth said of her father, TR, “My […]
I saw Ann Telnaes‘ latest last night and wished she’d done it a day earlier, since it would have fit yesterday’s rant so well.And then I realized, this isn’t going out of style and it’s not like we’re not going to have this conversation over and over.The people who bet on Maximum Security will never […]
Easy warm-up to start: Today’s Zits happens to come the day after 1A had a program about alternative school calendars, and also as I’m realizing my kid-reporters in Colorado will be out of school in about three weeks, a granddaughter will be graduating in four and some kids I work with in New York won’t […]
In Candorville, Darrin Bell has been letting his alter ego, Lemont Brown, ponder the Pulitzer.It’s funny stuff, in part because I share Lemont’s previously expressed view that plaques are for haques, and also because Darrin most certainly has won his share of Lucite, including the RFK award.And if you’d like to know more — and […]
The twelve jurors were all writing very busily on slates. `What are they doing?’ Alice whispered to the Gryphon. `They can’t have anything to put down yet, before the trial’s begun.’The Attorney General of the White House is going to hold a press conference at 9:30 to discuss a report nobody (except his BFF) will […]
There have been a couple of okay cartoons about the Notre Dame fire and then a raft of weeping gargoyles. I’m going to hold back for a day or so to let more cartoonists weigh in.There’s plenty more out there to comment on, starting with …I was glad to see Darrin Bell recognized with a […]
Kal Kallaugher notes the increasingly authoritarian nature of our perverse executive branch as it veers further from its Constitutional moorings and closer to the extremist views of its worst supporters.The Prez seems to be slipping his moorings in all sorts of ways, mostly in that, between his tweets and the formal statements coming from the […]
Candorville sets the tone for today, and if Lemont and I share a cynical view of society, it’s at least a cynicism based on a sense that we could be a better place if we didn’t simply lack the will.I’ve seen a raft of black hole cartoons with this or that being dragged into it, […]
Agnes has found a skull which appears to be that of a cow, but she’s convinced herself that it is a fossil and is therefore the skull of a cow dinosaur.Today, under continual questioning from a dubious Trout, she plays the traditional card of the clearly-wrong: A claim of expertise.Where else have you heard someone […]