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Mostly not to be. James Allen shows his original vision for the September 25, 2016 Sunday Mark Trail page. We pair it with the published version. © North America Syndicate/KFS Topps has cancelled a Garbage Pail Kids Shammy Award sticker card. From meaww: The Shammy Awards is currently under fire for a violent portrayal…
John Deering (Creators) offers a chilling combination of “Those who do not learn from the past are doomed to repeat it” with the stand-up comics’ critique of being “too smart for the room.” It’s a really good cartoon, except that, in a country where half the people were born after 1982, how many of us…
I’m glad Signe Wilkinson (AMS) got out in front of the pack on this one, because it’s a good take and there aren’t a lot of those right now on social media. The first take on the Atlanta murders was that he was a racist singling out Asian women, and there’s no doubt that bigotry…
Cartoonists at syndicates have editors, but this Baby Blues (KFS) got through without anyone noticing that, if they “all” got to choose one thing, Zoe would have to persuade her classmates to vote to stick Hammy in the time capsule. It should have read “each.” Bill Whitehead had a closely related error in Free…
We’ll let Bill Bramhall (NYDN) start us off with a ray of hope. Merrick Garland has a lot of clean up to do, but he’s not pretending otherwise, having made clear that he is in office to be Attorney General and not the president’s personal attorney. The fact that he was confirmed by a 70-30…
(Matt Davies — AMS) Rick McKee (Counterpoint) We’ll start the examination of the Great Dr. Seuss Crisis with a Juxtaposition that contains both the plaint and the answer. First of all, I am not the only one who suspects that the rightwing was desperate to distract us when they leapt upon the decision by Seuss…
Ann Telnaes (WashPost) on GOP resistance to the hike in the minimum wage, now imperiled by a parliamentarian ruling that it can’t be shoved through in the form of a reconciliation proposal to skirt the so-called filibuster rule. I say so-called because I remember the days when, if you wanted to stall a vote, you…
Andertoons (AMS) rekindles a real hatred of mine, because, when I was a little kid, I looked forward to the part of Art Linkletter’s House Party where that simpering sack of s*** rewarded children for showing off. Bill Cosby took over the franchise in later years, but by then (A) I’d recovered from the notion…
I noted yesterday that I could have done a full day of nothing but “Ted Cruz in Mexico” cartoons, and, as it turns out, I’d have still had enough left over to do it again today. Someone complained that people are forgetting the far more significant horrible things he’s done and maybe so, but I…
(Grand Avenue – AMS) (Joe Heller) Start the day with a Juxtaposition, because tomorrow is Ash Wednesday, which starts the beginning of Lent, which used to matter to people a whole lot more than it seems to in the present day. You can go back into history and find all sorts of ways people marked…
We’re starting to move kids back into the schoolrooms, and Signe Wilkinson (AMS) questions the wisdom of the move. There are many layers of this issue, and “Follow the science” is deeply tangled up with “Follow the sociology.” Joe Heller takes a similarly skeptical view of the development. Is it science, or is it…
According to Michael Ramirez (Creators), the fact that Marjorie Taylor Greene lost her committee assignments means that declaring an anti-semitic belief in space lasers, thinking that mass murders of school children were staged and advocating the assassination of legislators is “nutty.” And equally as “nutty” as believing that people who work two jobs should be…
I realize it’s Super Bowl Eve and we’ll get into that later, but it’s also the 11th anniversary of the start of this blog, which, as you see, began with a favorite strip and a single sentence inviting people to enjoy it. Comic Strip of the Day has evolved quite a bit since then, but…
As noted here yesterday, the GameStop gambit was not pulled off by youngsters, but I got a laff out of Dave Whamond (Cagle)‘s cartoon anyway, because, regardless of whodunnit, the targets were, indeed, pigs. Not because they are rich. I know some rich people who got there honestly and ethically. But I’m not the…
The Gamestop/Reddit gambit creates one of those “Where do I start?” sorts of days, but certainly Alex (Telegraph.UK) is an excellent place, even though he wasn’t commenting specifically on that. I often — perhaps too often — admit that Alex can be kind of nerdy for those who have not been immersed in the business…