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original April 30, 2020 post: St. Louis Public Radio will interview local cartoonist Steenz, who recently took over the Heart of the City comic strip, at noon local time on Friday May 1, 2020. Local comic artist Christina “Steenz” Stewart initially didn’t consider making comics during her time in art school. She knew she loved…
John Cole on the digital divide, which has been a factor in education for a good 25 or 30 years but is now in sharper focus as schools shift to distance learning. For those who came in late, the “digital divide” refers to kids who are at a disadvantage because their classmates have computers and…
I’m leading off today with this Ann Telnaes piece for two reasons. One is that I like it and that she’s right: The president’s claims that he didn’t know have been further undermined by facts, specifically a revelation that he ignores his Presidential Daily Briefings. The PDBs warned of the virus and tracked its spread…
Rick Kirkman (Baby Blues) and NCS President, Ginger Meggs’ cartoonist and Covid-19 sufferer Jason Chatfield are proposing to the NCS membership and all cartoonists to include symbols within their comics as a tip of the hat/thank you for everyone working to help control the Covid-19 pandemic. Here’s Jason’s entire letter: Calling all cartoonists, including editorial cartoonists! …
Bill Bramhall offers a devastatingly accurate appraisal of our current situation, as our president seemingly competes with himself to see what foolishness he can come up with next. It is as if he were trying to gauge the loyalty of his Deplorables by seeing how clear he can make his incapacity before they finally break…
Kevin Siers marks a promising moment: President Trump declared that the Washington Post and CNN had misquoted CDC Director Robert Redfield and called up on him for backup. And Redfield said they had quoted him accurately. Apparently, there are people in the Trump circle who will choose the welfare of the public over loyalty to…
I try to avoid politics on Friday, but when La Cucaracha, working in advance, manages to hit the timing jackpot, it’s worth a mention. The latest bit of presidential quackery seems almost as if someone at Fox & Friends was working for the opposition: “I know! Let’s say shooting up bleach will cure it!” Sure…
I often identify with Arlo, but I don’t have to get water down my windpipe to do this. I have a scratchy throat, plugged sinuses and random coughs every spring. It used to be hay fever. Now, of course, it is Impending Death. The advantage of living alone is that I don’t have a Janis…
Aislan quotes Pascal and I think puts his finger on not just the moment but why the moment is happening. I’ve often worried aloud about kids who have telephones and music plugged into their ears at all times: Will they learn to think with no experience of solitude? My grandfather said that, before sound recording,…
Ben offers a relatively gentle gag, but it jibes with a conversation I had at the park with another dog owner the other day (keeping six feet apart, yes). I’m a great-grandfather, which required starting the process in my 20s, such that, when the boys and I got down on the floor to play, I…
Kevin Siers bids an affectionate farewell to the Sanders campaign, with a cartoon that evokes dreaming the impossible dream but also Dr. Johnson’s compliment of the novel: Was there ever yet anything written by mere man that was wished longer by its readers, excepting Don Quixote, Robinson Crusoe, and the Pilgrim’s Progress? You could find…
There is humor to be found in any crisis, and Jeff Stahler taps into one of the better TV commercials to come along in awhile. That elevates a so-what gag about people working from home in their undies into a much better piece, because, first of all, it ties into something not just familiar but…
F-Minus gives a pretty good overview, not of how I feel, but of why. Facebook, and to a lesser extent Twitter, have always been full of people whinging about this or that, and looking for allies over silly things nobody else frets over, and announcing nincompooperies they are convinced are breakthroughs. But never so much…
Stuart Carlson prompts the question, “Is anybody still watching this crap?” If they hadn’t given Trump so much free airtime for his nonsensical statements and outrageous stunts in 2016, he’d have lost the election (and maybe never been nominated). Now they’re giving him an hour or two of free campaigning every night. Somebody call the…
Rod Emmerson offers tips for the lockdown and it all looks good to me, mostly because he accurately mirrors what I’ve seen in social media. Mostly what I’ve seen is my cartooning compadres saying “I’ve been training for this my whole life!” because those of us who make a living with a computer at home…