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Amid all the cartoons of kids-saluting-ghosts and variations on Iwo Jima, Paul Fell drops an observation which is less cynical than simply realistic. You could write a book called “Whatever Happened To Veteran’s Day?” as part of a series, or bundle it all into a single book called “The Homogenization of America.” I don’t have…
I made the mistake of reading Facebook before I got started today, and it made Tom Toles’ cartoon strike home even more than it might otherwise have. I’ve long since learned that there is no benefit in starting the day by taking other people’s bad trips, and Facebook was awash in them. Some are fairly…
Bizarro starts off our look at parenting with a dumb joke. I like dumb jokes, and particularly the kind that require you to think for about a minute and then realize you shouldn’t have had to. I also like the fact that Bizarro never softens its approach or apologizes for gags that whooshed over your…
We’ll start the Halloween rundown with Sunday’s Pajama Diaries, which raises the question, “What’s with all the ‘Sexy-whatever’ costumes?” I suppose one interpretation could be that Moms don’t get a lot of opportunities to be sexy, though, as suggested here, they’re too busy in the first place. For my part, I’m less fascinated by the…
I like this old photo of a Boise fire brigade racing off to a fire because the firefighters are hanging on, still struggling into their gear, while the horses are at full speed, on the job and having the time of their lives. As this piece from Merrimack, NH, Fire Rescue explains, the horses that…
Edison Lee provokes a great deal more thought than I had been planning to pour into anything, but this question actually came up in my hometown a quarter century ago. A microburst ripped through the Adirondacks July 15, 1995, taking down half the trees on a 100,000 acre swath of destruction that included Star Lake….
The one thing all Americans can agree on is that Mick Mulvaney will be starring on “Dancing with the Stars” by Thanksgiving, which is better than sleeping with the fishes but then again much the same thing. Robert Ariail‘s cartoon is only one of several marking Mulvaney’s utterly bizarre press conference in which the only…
Reply All brings up the concept of wasting time, and, naturally, the answer is to schedule it, making it a cousin of “Let’s do something spontaneous!” My friend Charley’s entire life was spontaneous, and it was exhilarating to be around him, though part of his nature was that he wasn’t around for long. But he’d…
A tip of the hat to Africartoons for picking up this Paolo Calleri cartoon, which uses an admittedly tired image to make a decidedly current and modern point. As noted here the other day, there is a bonding between grandparents and kids which I remember from my own youth, when “old folks” like Benjamin…
Last week the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette began a new phase, sending a notice to their subscribers: Beginning this week, the Post-Gazette will publish electronic editions exclusively on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Saturday. Print editions will be delivered to homes on Thursday, Friday and Sunday, and the Weekend Edition is available in stores on Saturday. Last year…
Nick Anderson is right, and the observation might have been just as apt back when Obama first took office and the GOP leaders openly promised to oppose anything he came up with. At the time, there were jokes that Obama should propose breathing so we could watch the Republicans asphyxiate themselves, but it seemed just…
Norm is a realistic good father, since he can summon his childlike alter ego at will and sometimes not at will, yet he can also, as here, be a bit of a curmudgeon. Thank goodness Reine doesn’t take that latter part too seriously. I never went to a pediatrician, even my first few years when…
We’ll begin with a reminder from Non Sequitur that not everything said for laughs should be taken at face value, or as a deliberate, or even accidental, insult. The topic of “political correctness” came up repeatedly at last weeks’ conference, particularly in connection with social media. Prime example was the cartoon that caused the…
(photo: Howard Lipin/The San Diego Union-Tribune) Lalo Alcaraz, like many cartoonists, has diversified. He no longer is strictly a pen-on-paper (stylus-on-wacom?) man for editorial cartoons and his La Cucaracha comic strip. More recently, he’s worked as a cultural consultant on the Pixar film “Coco” and the upcoming animated Nickelodeon show, “The Casagrandes.” He recently met…
This Andertoons doesn’t require a lot of explanation, though you have to be old enough to remember giant, air-conditioning-required, tape-driven mainframe computers. My first major freelance job was working for a company whose entire business was keeping track of oil and gas leases for landowners on one of those behemoths. I was charged with writing…