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The Mueller Report is not the only important issue facing us these days. For instance, if you haven’t been reading Non Sequitur, you might not have begun contemplating the issue of whether squirrels poop. So now I’ve given it some thought and I suppose they’re like mice and it just kind of falls out randomly,…
Signe Wilkinson answers my question, which was “Where to start?” Let’s start at the very beginning; a very good place to start. When you read you begin with A-B-C, when you read the Mueller Report you begin with DOH! Oh, dear! Wilkinson is right: It’s all there. I will confess I have not read the…
Only one short month until “America’s Biggest Comic Arts Festival!” Officially it runs May 17 to May 19, 2019, but there’s a signing event on May 16 and a live podcast on May 20th. Get there early and stay late. Like the star of his Badlands comic strip, Steve McGarry is…
Fathers get so little positive play on the comics page that, having been a single dad, I’m gonna lead with today’s Brevity. Cargo shorts notwithstanding, it’s good to see a father in the funnies who isn’t a clueless, annoying loser. My father, who was otherwise very present and attentive, didn’t teach me to shave. I…
Doc and Raider sparks memories of my first post-divorce romance, in which two evenings a week were spent similarly lying in bed, though, in our case, we were watching Dynasty on Wednesdays and its spin-off series, the Colbys, on Thursdays. Unlike the boys, we made no attempt to sort out the nonsense playing out before…
Bizarro takes un-cluttering to a whole other level. Sort of. This un-cluttering thing has come along at a bad time for me, because I’ve reached a point where I want to live simply — I’m in a three room apartment but envy this place because it’s so much more efficient — and I’m also old…
Steve Sack comments on the Chinese woman who wandered into Mar-A-Lago with some malware and god knows what intentions, which also ties into the administration’s general “It’s okay: He’s with me” attitude towards security clearances. The official response has been “See? We caught her! No problem!” but that’s a damn fool attitude. We in the…
I hesitate to ignore the Biden Huggy cartoons lest they start to pile up and block the exits, but it is Friday and so let’s have some funnies instead. Over at Zits, Jeremy and Pierce discovered, to their mutual embarrassment, that they both enjoy reading kids books. I thought the punchline on this particular strip…
Sixty-five years after they first debuted in 1954, Bazooka Joe and His Gang returns. Bazooka Candy Brands announced the arrival of its Bazooka Throwback pack on Thursday, April 4. According to a press release…the new nostalgia-inducing pack has an ’80s-themed design that was inspired by the gum’s original packaging. As you can see, the…
Signe Wilkinson scores with what I’m calling a “Naked Emperor Moment,” wherein someone says what others have had on their minds but didn’t dare bring up. The perfect is the enemy of the good and, while I’m glad to see the DNCC has not pre-approved a candidate in advance this time, the nit-picking does suggest…
There are all sorts of cartoons about Barr and the Mueller Report, but Tom Toles both made the point and got a laff, so he wins. Looks like we’re gonna need some laffs, because it’s becoming clear that truth is losing whatever toe hold it had, at least in the opposition camp. In Trump’s latest…
I’m already sick of responses to the Mueller Report and have begun sarcastically asking people to share their copies, since they obviously couldn’t be so sure if they hadn’t read the whole thing. So I like Ann Telnaes‘s take, which nicely combines the little information Barr has released with the fact that, even if he…
I like Ed Wexler‘s cartoon, but only because I take the Donald Trump figure as a kind of collective metaphor. That is, I agree the bar has been lowered, but Wexler jumped the gun in assuming Trump would proclaim his own innocence. He sure ain’t the only one to be making assumptions at this stage….
Friday Funnies come just in time this week, because the firehose of serious stuff is making a mockery of that saying, “Time is what keeps everything from happening all at once.” The long-form graphic commentators, plus the every-other-Wednesday part-time cartoonists, are just catching up on the college admissions scandal while the daily reactors are showing…
The National Cartoonists Society has announced the nominees for this year’s Reuben Award. National Cartoonists Society members have nominated the top five finalists for the 2018 NCS Reuben Award for “Outstanding Cartoonist of the Year”. Ballots have been sent out to all voting NCS members this week, and the Reuben Award will be presented…