As everyone struggles to explain the young man who tried to shoot Trump, I thought of this Tom the Dancing Bug from 1999, when we were trying to figure out Columbine and everybody had a theory. We didn’t actually come to a conclusion, or, at least, not to one that solved the problem, though, as […]
Jack Ohman plays with the Nativity story to illustrate the plight of the poor and homeless in San Francisco. It’s nicely played, though, of course, he’s hardly the first cartoonist to make the comparison. But his multi-panel approach really pays off, adding detail and frustration to a common plaint. One way to differentiate among these […]
On the topic of things you shouldn’t have to be told, Gary Varvel (Creators) depicts a kid gleefully heading off to the College of His Choice, leaving a pair of apparently bankrupt parents behind. He’s got a point, given that the kid is headed for State U and not Rich Kid Private Emporium, because even […]
This first point isn’t trivial, but it is personal. Greg Kearney notes the looming cuts at UMaine Farmington, a school I had contact with when I was editing the local paper. The school impressed me because I’d lived in another college town and it was nice, for a change, that downtown merchants didn’t have to […]
I saw the first corgi cartoon on the funny pages today, so I guess that tells us the time lag and, no, I’m not going to feature it here. But I will feature Martin Rowson’s farewell to the topic, which only has two corgis, which is quite a few less than you would get in […]
Jeff Koterba comments on Amazon’s purchase of a health care chain, which adds to the growing collection of stuff the octopus owns. It’s not quite the same thing as a monopoly, since there’s no logical connection between Amazon’s main business as a seller of things and the health clinic’s business as a seller of services, […]
There’s a full docket today, but let’s start with something specifically timely: Marc Murphy’s commentary on the start of the Kentucky Derby, which will be run Saturday in Louisville, where Murphy is cartoonist for the local paper. In posting the cartoon, he explained, “It’s almost time to sing just the good parts of the old […]
Kieran Meehan couldn’t have known how funny today’s Pros and Cons (KFS) would be when it hit, or, at least, how timely. We’ve had “news” that someone was caught throwing out ballots, only it turned out he was just discarding a sheet of instructions. And then we had “news” that dead people were voting in […]
As noted before, David Rowe has the advantage of being 14 hours away from Washington, but this is a very well-finished, timely commentary anyway, so there’s no point, in this case, of my waiting for everyone else to catch up. Details of the shooting didn’t emerge until late last night, but it was obvious at […]