Posted on: December 29, 2018

  Taking the Cartoon Literally A reader is upset that an editorial cartoon took liberties with the pre-Nativity narrative. …the cartoonist completely twisted the biblical event of Joseph and Mary looking for a room in Bethlehem where Jesus would be born… He made them out to be unwelcome immigrants who should have been stopped by […]

Graeme Keyes finds a way to freshen the stale old “kids play in the box” gag. There’s no gag so moldy that it can’t be made new again, but sometimes it requires turning it completely upside down. Strict analysis of this raises the question of whether those are “kids” and whether they were the recipients […]