Steve Bell starts today’s discussion with a demand, backed with a depiction of the atrocities left in the streets of Bucha by the retreating Russian army. A simple depiction, for which he is to be commended, but not at all a simple demand, though it’s hard to disagree with on principle, even in Bell’s British […]
We’ll start with Paul Fell today, because he expresses something fundamental in both the coronavirus matter and dialogue in general. Someone observed the other day that there are a lot of people who don’t remember, or weren’t around for, “smoking” and “non-smoking” areas, but, indeed, O Best Beloved, there were sections of restaurants and airplanes […]
Everybody is jumping on the Manafort sentencing, and I like Stuart Carlson‘s take in large part because he doesn’t specify the offense that the defendant was convicted of. We can assume, racists and classists that we are, that the fellow didn’t evade millions of dollars in taxes, but, unlike some cartoonists that compare a sentence […]
I’ll admit to having been sucked in completely by this Alex, because, while everyone in the strip is contemptible on some level, Clive had been painted as the victim in this ongoing divorce thread. For all the comical excesses of the characters, part of what makes this strip work is their lifelike nature, and I […]
“Do you bite your thumb at us, sir?” “I do bite my thumb.” “But do you bite your thumb at us, sir?” (Aside) “Is the law of our side if I say ‘yes’?” (Aside) “No.” “No, sir, I do not bite my thumb at you, sir, but I do bite my thumb, sir.” “Do you […]