Pros and Cons (KFS) relies on three main characters: Samuel, the incompetent attorney; Stan, the somewhat brutish but kind-hearted cop and Lyndon, the psychiatrist continuously flummoxed by the twisted egos of his patients. Today, Lyndon has inadvertently led one of his regulars down the wrong garden path, hoping to shame him into taking control and, […]
(Jack Ohman — Pulitzer Prize, 2016) (Joel Pett — Pulitzer Prize, 2000) (Kevin Siers — Pulitzer Prize, 2014) This is, alas, a Juxtaposition of the Fired. The McClatchy chain of newspapers, which has been struggling in bankruptcy for more than three years, has decided to cut costs by eliminating three of the nation’s leading editorial […]
Jack Ohman (Tribune) scores what I guess you could call a “pen drop” with this summation of the deal struck between Joe Biden and Kevin McCarthy. While the President and the Speaker reached what used to be considered a sensible compromise on the debt ceiling and coming budget, they’re both surrounded by problems. And Ohman […]
There’s not a whole lot we can agree on these days, but Michael Ramirez (Creators) touches on one sacred principle: When the margins are tight, everybody counts, including people who, in better times, would be jettisoned. The two situations are not identical: Dianne Feinstein is a long-serving, heroic figure, and it’s tragic that she can’t […]
Having waded through the Coronation (mostly, see below), National Cartoonist’s Day, Cinco de Mayo and the Kent State Anniversary, we’re left with today’s demonstration of Wretched Excess, the Kentucky Derby. Marc Murphy not only reminds us that Derby Day is a celebration of slavery but, in his comments, links to the author of an excellent […]
Chip Bok apparently went to the drawing board as soon as the election was called, but before Lightfoot responded. “Obviously, we didn’t win the election. But I stand here with my head held high and my heart full of thanks,” Lightfoot told supporters shortly before 9 p.m. That’s how it’s done on the blue side […]
Tom Tomorrow sums up the bizarre problem of life in a country divided between two realities. Sparky lays out a litany of abuses that ought to arouse at least concern, if not fury, in a civilized mind, only to discover that they bounce off because the person he is talking to lives in a totally […]
Kevin Siers plays upon all the cartoons over the past week or so about the coming of the Year of the Rabbit by pointing out that, whatever traditions may prevail in other countries, of rabbits or tigers or whathaveyou, we have an unchanging tradition here: We kill each other. The image of the Wild West […]
I’ve had enough cartoons about the speakership voting, but I did get a laugh out of RJ Matson’s commentary because he plays around with a kerfuffle over McCarthy having moved into the Speaker’s office before he held the position, and adds a bit of theatrical flair when the sign went up. Matson’s depiction of the […]
The big news today is that Steve Kelley (Creators) has embraced Critical Race Theory and has begun promoting that view of history in his cartoons. Or at least in this one. And he has the situation right: Democrats have long been critical of their party’s legacy in Civil Rights. As Biden suggested, and as Kelley […]
The political stuff today is mostly awful, so we’ll deal with that tomorrow and just go for silliness, starting with Bizarro (KFS), an exploration of the wonderful world of poop signs. I don’t know what there is about dog poop that makes sign painters become so illiterate, but, besides this, there are also a number […]
At first glance, Rob Rogers (Ind)’s cartoon sparked a “Yes, I know,” response, because we’ve all watched the GOP spinelessly acquiesce to Dear Leader’s assault on the electoral system. But his caption adds a disturbing element, at least for those of us who remember the days when we chose to believe that the mass of […]
(Kevin Siers) (Clay Jones) Here is a Juxtaposition that might have been two panels of the same cartoon: “Defund the Police” is a lousy slogan that plays into Republican hands. It’s a great idea, to shift funding in order to ease the burden on police and let them focus on actual law enforcement while other […]
I’m giving JD Crowe top billing because less is more and he kept it plain, but managed to sweep in what happened and why it matters. He didn’t swap in the Statue of Liberty or the Statue of Justice or otherwise adorn a scene that speaks for itself, nor did he ask an obvious rhetorical […]
Nick Anderson captures the moment, and I would add that not only has Facebook (and Twitter, for that matter) become a seething cauldron of coronavirus stupidity but seems to be ramping up the political idiocy as well. And while I chuckle, too, at all the cartoonists saying they’ve practiced social isolation all their lives, part […]