As this Lenten avoiding-political-cartoons things progresses, I’m finding how hard it is to draw the line, not simply because so many strips specifically include politics, but because even the ones that don’t — like today’s Daddy’s Home — take on a political spin when your feed is suddenly full of conspiracy theories based on Scalia’s […]
Kal Kallaugher confronts a political taboo, and though he does it in the pages of the Economist of London, I haven’t heard very many people in the US criticize Israel as being obstructionist in this process either. There is, of course, the spectre of anyone who criticizes Israel being accused of anti-Semitism, which stems in part […]
I got a chuckle out of Dave Whamond’s Reality Check today, as I often do. But a chuckle isn’t a laff, and isn’t generally enough to get a comic featured here.And it wasn’t today, until I switched over to political cartoons and saw what Nick Anderson had posted: Where is Paul Ryan? Have they disappeared […]
It’s not uncommon for a comic strip to reveal its lead time by riffing on a specific event.But the only conclusion to be drawn from today’s comics page is that somebody left a huge tank of silly uncorked a few weeks ago and cartoonists inhaled the fumes in large numbers. Most of these don’t inspire […]
Reality Check, with a reminder of those left behind. Sigh. Poor Jeeves indeed.I never asked Jeeves much of anything because poorly constructed inquiries tend to send you off into the hinterlands, and it seemed to me that purposely making inquiries in “plain language” was an invitation to start in those hinterlands and then spiral your way […]