I’m not as moved by the topic of Joe Heller’s cartoon as I am by its excellence on a professional level. To start with, it was a quick turn-around on the one Super Bowl commercial that got significant chatter. Every ad agency works to create a Super Bowl one-and-done spot, to the point where the last several […]
Stick with me through the grim stuff and then we’ll lighten up. In the aftermath of the GOP debate, I wondered if anyone else had heard the parts I heard, because the punitry seemed to focus on refugees and terrorism, while chuckling over Trump’s ignorance of a technical term a president should probably know and […]
I haven’t featured Madam & Eve much here recently, not because it hasn’t been just as sharp as ever, but because — apart from them hogging all the good weather for the past several months — it’s been commenting on news stories that, like the aforementioned weather, haven’t really made it out of South Africa.That […]
I’ve mentioned my frustration with the attitude so well lampooned by Kevin Siers today.There have been a spate of cartoons taking the opposite tack — accusing Obama and Kerry of foolishness or worse for negotiating rather than threatening, apparently hoping for a chance to send more of our young people to die in the sand.Nor […]
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 […]
The timing is purely coincidental, but it’s not a bad day to reflect on where we’ve come and how we got here, and this cartoon by Wolfgang Ammer ties in with some recent headlines that left me scratching my head.That is, it’s easy enough to discount criticism of the Affordable Care Act as a testament to the […]
Kevin Kallaugher neatly explains what’s going on. It is a riff, of course, on one of the absolute classics of The Far Side, which was followed by a second take, both of which adorned the bulletin board in my kitchen until they were quite yellow and curled, or possibly until I moved, I forget which.And […]
Couple of quickies before we get to the hard core issue of the day:Two minds with but a single thought: This pairing ranks as one of the more odd coincidences I’ve seen on the comics page lately, since I haven’t seen anything about bananas in the news or rocketing around social media. I’m kind of […]
Tim Eagan points out the obvious in Deep Cover, and I don’t know why he bothers.I don’t know why I bother to pass it on.I’d say that Jesus spent half his ministry criticizing religious hypocrites who quote Scripture to explain why they don’t follow Scripture, but that wouldn’t be true.At least, I don’t think it’s […]
Hate to use the same cartoonist too many times too close together, but the “red line” cartoons on Syria are starting to weird me out, and this Danziger cartoon hit the mark like no other.When did so many ink-slingers from both sides of the aisle become so easy-going about the lives of other people’s kids?Mike […]
It’s an appropriate time of year to ask the question, “Quo vadis?” In Scott Stantis, the Chicago Tribune at long last found the right cartoonist to replace the late Jeff MacNelly: Stantis not only proves that a conservative can be funny, but that you can be thoughtful, even reflective, without having to give up your […]
One reason I can pull up strips for “Classic” postings is that, before I started the blog, I would save strips that I found particularly amusing or thought-provoking. I rarely do that anymore, since I post them here. But I’m certainly going to keep a copy of today’s Sinfest. I’ve got nothing to add except to […]
This is a page from “Congo 50,” a graphic novel produced by a group of Congolese artists to mark the nation’s 50th anniversary.You can read the first chapter here, plus get an insight into the purpose and process. I wish the pages had been done in a higher resolution or larger size, but I was […]
Jeff Danziger needs to go on my list of cartoonists who would be here all the time if I didn’t pay attention.But this panel has some eternal truth to it, as well as some new truths and some things we really need to think about for the future but probably won’t.To start with, the Folks […]
This past Christmas, I gave my older son, a Gulf veteran, a copy of “War is Boring,” the graphic memoir about the compelling addiction of covering armed conflicts, done by war correspondent David Axe and cartoonist Matt Bors. He took a while to pick it up and then reported that, while he liked it very […]