I could, if I wanted to, do an entire posting of nothing but cartoons showing Vladimir Putin either giving the State of the Union speech or employing a Trump puppet to give the speech. I don’t want to do that, so I’ll let John Deering’s example represent them all, because he included JD’s “Boycott Vermont” […]
The MLive Media Group has announced it is adding comic strips to their print editions. Two new comics to their Sunday Funnies and 12(!) to their daily comics pages: Starting March 18, our eight Michigan newspaper titles are adding 8 new comic strips to our Sunday newspaper lineup – 6 will be available in our […]
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 […]
Prickly City addresses Dear Leader’s concentration camps, but whatever its lead time, it also sweeps in a few related issues, like the White House cutting off Associated Press access because they haven’t knuckled under to the “Gulf of America” nonsense. That seems petty and silly, but punishing the press for disobedience not only shows contempt […]
Gary Markstein comments on the decision to move tomorrow’s inauguration inside. Or possibly on the entire process of making Donald Trump president. Both interpretations work, though the former is less partisan and potentially more constructive. There’s plenty of speculation and commentary about the decision, including people pointing out that the Kansas City stadium was packed […]
Dan Piraro has a fascinating and important piece on his blog that ties in with my own experience of having been punished as a young lad for what we now recognize as Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder and being fortunate enough to turn it into an advantage. He was punished more savagely, since I was only […]
La Cucaracha (AMS) confesses to having faced lead time, but Alcaraz did a nice job of predicting where we’d be at this stage. Mind you, Alcaraz has long been on record against Latino voters who support Trump, as this political cartoon from June attests. It may be disappointing, but not surprising, that he spotted the […]
Pearls Before Swine (AMS) indulges in some theological speculation. It’s inappropriate to tell other people how to mourn, and while there is a point at which it becomes obsessive, that point is different for everyone. Still, Rat has a point and I can’t think of a source that suggests we age in heaven, while, although […]
Rich Powell starts off this panoply of humor with a wordless wonder at Wide Open (Universal), and the best part is that, while the humans are blissfully unaware, the dogs recognize kindred spirits, with perhaps a sense of having been mismatched. Well, if their people have never heard that thing about people resembling their dogs, […]
Peter Steiner makes fun of grumpy wet-blanket killjoys. The New York Times, by contrast, names them Deputy Editor of its Opinion section and turns them loose on a joyful world, hoping to quash the moment and make us all become very, very serious about very, very serious things. After writing this, he went down to […]
Non Sequitur (AMS) manages to strike an appropriate note through serendipity, given Wiley’s lead time. Indeed, things could have gone worse and, also indeed, fate is recalculating. In any case, the second day of political cartoons about the attempted assassination have mostly indicated that we should give cartoonists a little more time, so we’ll back […]
Today’s Rubes (Creators) brings back memories of being a reporter at a paper in a city on Lake Champlain, which has its own cryptozoological mascot that people honest-to-Marlin-Perkins believe in, “Champy.” A lot of people believe in him but nobody seems to have ever gotten a clear shot of him, but I do remember one […]
If “timing is everything in comedy,” this is a darned hilarious F-Minus (AMS), because I dreamt all night of laying out pages and this morning I feel like I might as well have stayed up and done it for real. Your mileage may vary and I hope it does, but while I make some more […]
Frazz (AMS) starts us with a reminder that some things can’t be purchased, except of course that they can. As it happens, the strip ran just after the Boston Marathon, as likely planned, but also after a local news story here mentioned that they used to put the medallions indicating that you finished on a […]
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 […]