Ann Telnaes originally posted this a year ago, but brought it back recently to comment on the flourishing of AI. Then someone re-posted this segment with a link to the full piece: That fragment zeros in on the main problem with AI. Whether it’s graphic art, writing, music or whatever, the essence of art is […]
I like to alternate humorous and political cartoon days, but sometimes the categories cross so here we are. Mike Baldwin has the least political of the funny cartoons today, but the Boring Company is owned by Elon Musk. He claims he thought of the name while stuck in a traffic jam, which is problematic because […]
I’m always surprised when I stumble across one of those Captchas that wants you to click on picture boxes. It’s like getting into a car and realizing it has a choke, except that you never get into a car with a choke unless you’re at an antique car show. Which is to say, it’s like […]
In a few days (April 1, 2025) the new GoComics website will present itself to the world at large, and while we don’t have any details as to most of what will be new and improved we have an idea of what it may look like. Yeah the new (top) page is going to look […]
Time for our weekly trip to Arcamax. Monotonous, isn’t it? Well, it sure gets old, given that somebody keeps forgetting to load the black plate for Barney & Clyde on Sundays, but, then again, if all they loaded were the black plate, that would be monotonous. What they’re doing instead is polytonous. However, today it […]
One of those cases where the timing is fortuitous but accurate. A few more editorial cartoonists have stepped up with commentary on the Oval Office Ambush and we’ll get to them, but they’ll keep and, as Royston’s announcer says, things are depressing enough that we’ll go right to the weather (which has been good here) […]
The doctor is correct: There’s a lot of bad news going on and not a lot of good news, and all sorts of mostly depressing things to cartoon about. The problem is that the political cartoons don’t have much impact if you don’t pause once in awhile. So here we are, and I’d remind you […]
There’s plenty of politics, so we’ll do comedy instead. The woman in Batch Rejection echoes my thoughts even without the Doge Boys penetrating government sites. My computer continually pesters me to put everything up in the Cloud, and even though I don’t, I’ll occasionally start to pay for something and discover they know my credit […]
A little bit of politics before we dive into humor: The NFL has removed “End Racism” from the endzone, not starting next season when most changes happen, but starting right now for the Super Bowl, which, completely coincidentally, will have Dear Leader in attendance. They’re replacing it with “Choose Love,” and just as taking “End […]
As I’ve mentioned before, Red and Rover takes place in an indistinct past, one evidence of which is that Red can throw a newspaper from the sidewalk to someone’s porch. Well, that and the fact that most newspapers quit hiring kids as carriers because afternoon papers switched to mornings and sending kids out in the […]
The opening panel of Prince Valiant took my mind to the long-gone time of black light posters. That panel would have made a great one. And maybe that is what got me thinking about the colors at Comics Kingdom, they seemed more vibrant today. Even the pastels appear to be more pastel-ly. Beetle Bailey came […]
There are all sorts of important political issues to address, but there are also a lot of leftover Thanksgiving political cartoons, and it’s too late to keep arguing over the election because that die has been cast. So here’s a Jimmy Craig cartoon which is also about Thanksgiving but made me smile. I didn’t use […]
Ann Telnaes shares the ebullience flowing out of the DNC, adding a dash of feminine pride to the contrast between joyous celebration and the sourpuss dread driving the GOP campaign. And she’s not wrong to show Justice and Liberty as boosters for Harris, given that we’ve seen Justice denied amid a flurry of hostility directed […]
Start with a confession: I like this Off the Mark (AMS) because, once he’s found true love, they can get married and produce blended offspring, all of which I will like more. I’ve tried a number of single malt Scotches and they’ve convinced me that wise distilleries blend their whiskies to create a better tasting […]
I laughed at this New Yorker cartoon, though they don’t bother crediting their cartoonists and if you Google “New Yorker cartoonist CAB” you find out how many times they’ve made fun of taxis. It might as well be signed “pigeon” or “Chardonnay.” Whoever drew it, it got a chuckle, but it also got a flinch […]