I’m mixing political cartoons with humor today, and starting with a question: Does anybody really care about this issue anymore? Clay Jones isn’t the only left-of-center cartoonist to bring it up, but it’s been a long time since I’ve seen anyone right-of-center whining about the whole “Merry Christmas/Happy Holidays” kerfuffle. I suppose maybe I have […]
Winners of the 2024 Ellwood Atfield Political Cartoon of the Year Awards have been announced. Dave Brown of The Independent took home Political Cartoonist of the Year. Jeremy Banx was named Pocket Cartoonist of the Year. Fergus/InfiniteGuff‘s cartoon from the London Economic (below) was named Political Cartoon of the Year. Grizelda Grizlingham’s cartoon (below) was named Pocket […]
Michael deAdder Ben Garrison We won’t get through all the emerging political cartoons about the election today, but here are the bookends: de Adder sees it as the monster returning, referencing Poltergeist, the 1982 horror film about a gateway opening up to the other side, while Garrison cites the Magnificent Seven, in which a group […]
Oh well. Wiley anticipated the outcome of yesterday’s vote with a Non Sequitur (AMS) that didn’t try to predict the winner but just observed that the Electoral College count doesn’t reflect the popular vote. There have been several cartoons over the past weeks suggesting we abandon the Electoral College and I think it’s a remnant […]
If I were a betting man, I’d listen to the croupier, “Place your bets, the game is on!” I agree with Bill Bramhall‘s cartoon. Trump kept his temper and his tongue in check until his opponent changed and the odds changed along with the lineup. I particularly enjoy Jeremy Banx‘s take on the way Harris’s […]
Prickly City (AMS) reiterates the high-minded, analytical approach familiar to grade-school alumni: “I know you are, but what am I?” Trump having been seen dozing off while he was on trial, the response is to declare that Biden dozes off all the time. It’s not the only example, particularly if you plumb the depths of […]
I’m more than a little burned out on upside-downism in cartooning about Justice Alito’s political posturing, though the immediacy with which the examples cascaded makes it more of a coincidence than a matter of redundancy, an event cartoonists once described as a Yahtzee, though I haven’t heard the term in a while. However, I like […]
I believe comics can be educational without being educational comics, and today’s Rubes (Creators) brought to mind a visit to the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo when my boys were about three and seven. We had a family membership and visited often, and I think the boys learned something every time, but never so much as the […]
Barbara Smaller’s cartoon is hardly breakthrough humor, subconsciously echoing as it does a Tom Toro piece that has become a classic: It is odd that they both ran in the New Yorker. As an editor, I certainly would have recognized the repetitive nature and declined to run the second iteration. OTOH, if I were editing […]
Reading Alex requires you to recognize the strict compliance requirements in the British workplace, but this one works anywhere because the IRS similarly allows you to write off business lunches, including alcoholic beverages, but with rules, including that things not get too “lavish and expensive.” Being able to write off a large, expensive bottle of […]
I think Eric Carle — having faked his own death to escape the world of children’s books — has taken over the world of astronomy. Perhaps Neal DeGrasse Tyson was too technical, but Jeremy Banx is only touching on the ways in which complex ideas are being simplified for a general audience. It’s not just […]
My first reaction to this Non Sequitur (AMS) was that it’s impossible. We all know that the way you learn to check before sending is by sending before checking, a lesson gained through experience. It was a lot more fun back in the days of listservs, which, O Best Beloved, set up a little closed […]
A door panel blew out on a Boeing jet the other day. Perhaps you heard. Matt Pritchett came up with a funny cartoon about it. Many other people also drew cartoons about it. The most interesting part of the whole thing, as far as I was concerned, was how much of a non-event it turned […]
The nice lady in this Joel Pett (Tribune) cartoon is speaking specifically about the release of Jeffrey Epstein’s client list, so we’ll begin there. We live, after all, in a world of subjective reality. Juxtaposition of the Pitiful Airplanes Glen LeLievre Chris Britt — Creators The nice thing about Al Capone and Dutch Schultz was […]
Tony Carrillo gives us a clue to his lead time on F-Minus (AMS), given that the American Ornithological Society announced on November 1 that they intended to change the names of birds named after people. They should have made their secondary reason first, which is that using descriptive names rather than eponyms helps people identify […]