If you’ve wondered why I feature Clay Jones here so often, only part of it is that I tend to agree with his point of view. The major reason is that he produces a cartoon every day, including a fair number that don’t knock me out and don’t appear here. I mention this because it’s […]
Lemont, the protagonist of Candorville (KFS), spends too much time playing the pedant and correcting people for speaking the way people speak. Sure, he’s correct: “Pin number” is redundant, though I don’t hear people say it nearly as often as I did a decade or so ago. However, “being made redundant” remains both correct and […]
Well, yes, Prickly City (AMS), Carmen is correct that this is no longer the Age of Reason, defined as any period in history, especially the 18th century in France, England, etc., characterized by a critical approach to religious, social, and philosophical matters that seeks to repudiate beliefs or systems not based on or justifiable by […]
Joel Pett gets a laugh and helps lower our expectations of each other this morning, given how very little of what ought to be painfully obvious appears to be so. The past several days have seen a display of how many know so little about American History or about how our government works. Scott […]
This piece by Barry Blitt has been all over social media lately, though he actually produced it May 14, after the leak but before the formal announcement of the Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v Wade. It’s an encouraging idea, that women (and the rest of us) should stand up to the court, but, in […]
Note the interplay in this Wallace the Brave (AMS): First, Rose is the right character to have a turquoise necklace, or, at least, she’s the right character to show it off to her friends. Amelia might have one — heck, even Spud has had one — but Amelia wouldn’t make note of it. And, of […]
We’re working today on the premise that cartoons can contain a lot of truth, and starting with Wallace the Brave (AMS) because, yes, at the age of 11, I got lost in the woods, came upon another set of snowshoe tracks and began following them. The humor here, of course, is Wallace’s theory, which he […]
Barney & Clyde (WPWG) has it right, but it’s more complex. I don’t think people are any more stupid than in the past, nor do I believe there are any more stupid people than ever. However, stupid people are far less isolated than they used to be, and that gives them a great deal more […]
Paul Fell offers what I consider the most thoughtful take on the Pope’s declaration that the Church cannot bless same-sex marriages. I capitalize “the Church” because there used to only be one and that’s at the heart of our discussion today. I don’t know that there are a lot of RC churches in America […]
We’ll begin gently. The sheet with all the eye-holes was Linus’s costume, not Charlie Brown’s. I don’t have an exact date for this strip, because I encountered it in a collection, not the newspaper. But it ran in the late 50s, when Linus was still a toddler. I bring it up now because the Peanuts […]
RJ Matson offers a great take on “Blind Justice.” Blind Justice is an ideal that we’ve never achieved. The idea of a system in which everyone who comes before it gets equal treatment, in which Justice does not see who is on either side, is something to strive for even if we know in our […]
And so it begins. Ed Hall is no Trump fan, but he joined other cartoonists in piling on Joe Biden for telling a joke in a limited forum that didn’t play well with a broader audience. In posting this on his Twitter account, Hall said “I’ll take shit for this cartoon but I really don’t […]
There have been some churches featured on Facebook and Twitter that have caged the Baby Jesus in their nativity sets, and I like Mike Luckovich‘s version of the concept. But lest we forget, this idea has Scriptural relevance: And when they were departed, behold, the angel of the Lord appeareth to Joseph in a dream, […]
I’d sworn off cartoons based on Emma Lazarus, but Steve Artley took me by surprise with this “New Yorker in Hell” offering. The standard New Yorker cartoon offers an affectionate look at the upper middleclass foibles of its readers, with a smile and a bit of a whachagonnado shrug. I remember one — can’t recall […]
This Pat Bagley cartoon has been hanging around too long, but I’m going to feature it anyway because it’s such a good introduction to the blatant disinformation circulating in our system. Of course, nobody said we needed to do away with cattle entirely, but having even said that (A) they produce a lot of methane […]