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Sometimes a person makes an innocent mistake, sometimes someone tells a deliberate lie. Most times, the effect is the same either way, but if what conservative Christians say of the Final Judgement is true, intentions matter. So we’ll start with the twisted view of religion laid out by Mike Luckovich: It is impossible to venture…
Kal Kallaugher could run this anytime, but it’s particularly relevant at the moment, as we face the twin factors of emerging technologies that make forgery and fraud easier, and political operatives who are willing to lie in your face. There have always been kooks in the world, but in addition to the gullible who believe…
Rabbits Against Magic is swimming upstream against a rapid current, because whatever idiotic thing Elon Musk says today, he’s bound to exceed tomorrow. His latest brainstorm is that he wants new Xitter members to pay for each posting, which would discourage bots, his announced intent, but would also discourage people from signing up at all….
Michael de Adder offers a State of the Disunion Address for political cartooning. As noted the other day, I suspect that, while several cartoonists are of an age to have been disillusioned by the murder, the reason for the flood of OJ cartoons, most of them set in Hell, seems a desire to jump on…
Christian tradition is that, during the three days Christ was dead, he visited Hell, defeated the Devil (seen crushed under the door in Fra Angelico‘s painting) and brought forth the righteous of the Old Testament from their confinement. I say “tradition” because it’s necessary to differentiate between pious traditions and the things you are actually…
Pearls Before Swine (AMS) gets political this morning, and I’ll admit I can’t tiptoe around the general topic either. It’s not easy to avoid thinking about. My social media this morning consisted of a mix of leftover St. Patrick’s Day stuff — and I don’t intend to get into that again — and loads of…
I’m starting the day with Nick Anderson‘s cartoon following the release of the Justice Department’s 600-page report on the May, 2022, school shooting in Uvalde, Texas. There have been several other cartoons, but, while I don’t expect a cartoonist to read all 600 pages in time to fire off a timely commentary, I didn’t find…
We’ll lead off with a strange choice of little current relevance, just to kind of ease into the grimmer ones. It wasn’t far into the Vintage Ben Bolt (KFS) story arc that I began to fear that he’d end up adopting this plucky little guttersnipe, but I hoped it wouldn’t happen. Big Ben Bolt launched…
I’ve long since stopped featuring Santos/Pinocchio cartoons, since there were too many of them and they’d lost all impact. But I got a laugh out of Ed Hall‘s combining of the metaphor with the common “spend more time with my family” excuse. In fact, that lame explanation is as too frequent and as devoid of…
We’ll give the lead today to Dave Whamond’s Day by Dave (AMS), because he’s Canadian and the poem that inspired Poppy Day was written by a Canadian doctor during World War I, when thousands fell but the churned up ground proved a welcome environment for the bright red flowers. There’s a great deal more about…
Flash Gordon by Dan Schkade remains enjoyable. Today’s Sunday summary of what’s happening is impressive. Even keeping those of us who have been following the weekday action interested. Prince Valiant by Mark Schultz and Thomas Yeates also used today to update readers on what is going on there. Of course there is more than two…
Arlo and Janis (AMS) make sensible preparations for Tuesday night. My apartment is at the back of the landlords’ house and so I don’t get trick-or-treaters, which is good because my current dog is not used to knocks on the door. But in days of larger dogs and a place with heavier traffic, I had…
September saw students returning to the ivied halls, and cartoonists are among the returning. At The Daily Wildcat, “the student voice of The University of Arizona & Tucson,” has three comic strips that readers can start before the series get too far into the story. Atomic Age Adventures by Sela Margalit A former supermodel drafted…
It was the Pig Fair last SeptemberA day I well rememberI was walking up and down in drunken prideWhen my legs began to flutterAnd I fell down in the gutterAnd a pig came up and lay down by my side. As I lay there in the gutterThinking thoughts I dare not utterI thought I heard…
We might as well begin with the silly part, though our current situation is a mix of silly and deadly. Ed Hall is hardly the only person getting a laugh out of Trump’s self-reported dimensions of 6’3″ and 215 pounds, as recorded in his Georgia booking document. A Twitter account called CalltoActivism did a comparison…