Today’s first complaint is simple: Either this is a multi-panel caption contest or GoComics didn’t print the black plate in Barney & Clyde (Counterpoint). But I scrounged around and found a different version. When I was doing education work, I ran Short Cuts, a weekly full-page educational cartoon that was sent in two parts for […]
Our impending political disaster is grim enough that Andertoons (AMS) manages to mine it not so much for an actual laugh but, more appropriately, for a grim smile and nod. And he’s right: Once we, or our children or their children, emerge from all this, there will be a rush of people explaining how bad […]
Francis (AMS) combines the dread news of the new report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change with the beginning of Ramadan to make a point about the sudden urge to Do Something as compared to having an ongoing tradition of Doing Something. Ramadan began this week, but, of course, an observant Muslim like Gabby […]
It was a bit of a coin flip, deciding whether to start the day with Jen Sorensen or T.S. Eliot, and they don’t really qualify as a Juxtaposition because they’re nearly the same. Sorensen wins because this is a cartoon feature and not a poetry corner, but we’ll add the rest of Tom’s commentary at […]
There aren’t a lot of good cartoons about the Buffalo shootings, and I’m not sure it’s worth waiting, because what can anyone say that hasn’t been said? Yesterday, so many cartoonists reposted work from years past on social media that I had trouble sorting reactions to these murders from reactions to all those other […]
“Until this moment, Senator, I think I never really gauged your cruelty or your recklessness. … Have you no sense of decency?” — Joseph Welch I’m not quite old enough to remember when Joseph Welch brought a halt to Sen. Joe McCarthy’s reign of terror in 1954, but I’m old enough to remember the […]
The joke being that, while some of us ran as fast as we could, some of us didn’t run at all, and so here we are in the same place as we started. I’d laugh, if I didn’t have a niece in Florida who tested positive despite being vaccinated. She’s okay; For nearly all […]
I retired in June in a combination of newspaper cuts and my boss’s retirement, but before we shut things down we were facing the prospect of a spring workshop for our young reporters in the midst of the pandemic. Today’s Alex (Telegraph) is therefore particularly relevant, because I telecommuted the editing job except for two […]
Ann Telnaes has a bit of fun with Republican sewer rats who pretend ignorance of Dear Leader’s increasingly unhinged Tweets, notably his delusional, imbecilic repeating of an insane conspiracy theory from OANN, his favorite Russian-connected propaganda outlet. Innocent ignorance is easy. Intentional ignorance is beginning to take some real effort. Particularly when Presidential paranoid […]
Arlo & Janis set me back a moment this past Sunday, until I re-read it and realized Arlo was talking about when wings went national, not when they were invented. Of course, wings were invented at the Anchor Bar in Buffalo, and what KFC and others have done is turned good bar food into mediocre […]
I don’t do a lot with comic books, but I’ll happily refer you to this Comicsbeat article about the original Fantastic Four, because it explains why in a charmingly roundabout way. Everything about Fantastic Four is ridiculous. Deliciously ridiculous. If you’re wondering how four people got such dramatically different super powers from the same incident, the answer […]
I don’t often feature political cartoons on local issues, though I think it’s important that cartoonists do them, which, in turn, means it’s important that local newspapers have a cartoonist on staff. A cartoonist whose only market is syndication wouldn’t bother to comment on a company that makes ball caps in suburban Buffalo deciding not […]