Michael Ramirez (Creators) offered a curious take on CNN’s candidate interview. It appeared the morning after, but that likely means it was drawn before the interview aired. He assumed, then, that Harris was incapable of answering questions without Walz to save her. Now, judging it in retrospect, it’s clear from the transcript that absolutely nothing […]
I borrowed today’s headline from an old website run by the late Bill Bickel in which he used to mock comic strips for not coming up to his standards. It was one of a couple of similar sites that motivated me to launch Comic Strip of the Day in 2010, because I thought it better […]
This is one of those “Where do I start?” days, but Eric Allie (Counterpoint) offers a segue from yesterday, in which I chided Bob Gorrell and Mike Lester for writing Title 42 cartoons before the fact arose that, rather than their expected flood of migrants with the demise of the act, the number of crossing […]
Wednesday’s CNN Town Hall wasn’t quite as transformative as Chip Bok (Creators) paints it, but it certainly demonstrated the media shakeup in progress. But note the “How could you?” look on Fox’s face and the “Dear Lord” look on CNN’s. Rightwingers have been excoriating Fox for its recent failure to promote Dear Leader incessantly, faithfully […]
Walt Handelsman pings a continuing annoyance here. It’s not a “pet peeve.” A pet peeve is people who write “if it was” when they mean “if it were.” It’s wrong and it’s ignorant, but it’s harmless. Equating national budget issues with family budgets is generally wrong and ignorant, but it’s far from harmless because it […]
We’ll start with a gamble that didn’t pay off, as seen in Nick Anderson (Counterpoint)’s cartoon. As you may have heard, CNN launched a streaming service, CNN+, which was then cancelled before it was a month old. But the gamble wasn’t that they thought it would catch on and it didn’t. I had some quibbles […]
Deb Milbrath saved me from running a blank panel by offering not only a comment that jibes with my own take but that stands out among a flood of cartoon commentary that you won’t be seeing here. The Smith/Rock confrontation was not funny, nor is it a metaphor for anything except for our eagerness to […]
A second day of foolishness, a second day of inventing headlines that satirize classic book titles. Jimmy Margulies (KFS) leads off with a comparison of nitwits. As noted yesterday, not knowing squat about Canada didn’t stop Yanks from not only commenting on the convoy but actively supporting it, and now we’ve got Republican Senators coming […]
John Cole shows both reactions to Biden’s press conference. He gets the time wrong: It was just under two hours, hardly four, but still a prodigious effort. The dual response, I think, is between those who did the assigned homework — who watched the conference and judged it for themselves — and those who fake […]
We usually associate Jack Davis with TV Guide, but Steve Brodner is taking on the role this morning, because the January 6 Hearings will be starting at roughly 9 AM Eastern, or about the time I file. So if you haven’t got your TV on, flip it on now and start watching. I’m assuming that […]
Joy of Tech is pretty firmly on record as not respecting either Facebook or Twitter, but here they acknowledge not just the general scumminess but the addictive nature of unbridled social media. I’m admittedly on the record as recognizing my own need for such places to both collect material for my writing and to promote […]
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 […]