I’ve often quoted a frustrated exclamation that pops up in commedia dell’arte plays, “I cannot tell if he is a knave or a fool!” The laughs in the farce are based in large part on it not being clear whether the harlequin is lying or truly believes the nonsense he spouts. It hardly matters, because […]
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 […]
There’s a lot of political stuff I won’t be addressing today, because I’m tired of politics but also because there are several recent developments that will become cartoons over the next couple of days and I want to wait for them to mature. My objection to Clay Jones’s latest cartoon is purely editorial. I agree […]
It was the Pig Fair last SeptemberA day I well rememberI was walking up and down in drunken prideWhen my legs began to flutterAnd I fell down in the gutterAnd a pig came up and lay down by my side. As I lay there in the gutterThinking thoughts I dare not utterI thought I heard […]
Alex offers a grim prediction for writers, or at least those who don’t go to the right cocktail parties in the right cities. Publishers already use the term “slush pile” for the vast quantities of unsolicited manuscripts that arrive on their doorsteps, and it’s newsworthy when something from the slush pile gets published. It’s nearly […]
There have been additional cartoons about the rewriting of the late Roald Dahl’s books, but, having covered the topic, I’m disinclined to feature anything that doesn’t rise above the norm. Martin Rowson did just that, blending the revisionist literature with Vladimir Putin’s absurd claim that Ukraine started the war. A pair of rubbish rewrites, indeed. […]
Cartoon coverage of last night’s State of the Union Address began in advance, and Scott Stantis (Counterpoint) echoed the Clay Bennett cartoon featured here yesterday: The State of the Union is disunion. Reasonable people can disagree, but, then again, reasonable people can also agree, and, while Stantis and Bennett are from opposite sides of the […]
I wish I could disagree with Clay Bennett (CTFP), but, yeah, that’s pretty much the State of the Union, and the only quibble I can add is that the pieces might perhaps be more bent from being pounded into places where they don’t fit. But maybe he’s right. Maybe the pieces fit perfectly without spelling […]
We’ll give dissident cartoonist Badiucao the lead off on this discussion of the Chinese balloon, in part because he’s earned it, and in part because his use of Winnie the Pooh and a formidable American eagle presaged the outcome of this foolishness. (h/t to Cathy Wilcox) We can forgive him the Disney red shirt, while, […]
Let’s start the day with a grim chuckle from Wiley Miller, because, while today’s Non Sequitur (AMS) is funny, it’s not. Whatever the lead time for his strip, this was safe commentary, because we’re seeing book after book come out from both former White House apparatchiks and reporters who covered the Trump administration, explaining all […]
I’m sure Dave Coverly simply intended to make a funny with this Speed Bump (Creators), but it hit at a moment when it struck a nerve. And if you hate sports, trust me and stick around. The death of John Madden brought out a lot of tributes, including some rebroadcasts of games from when he […]
Some days are political, some days are comical. Today is a mix, but we’ll start with the shock of Michael Ramirez (Creators) pointing out that Marjorie Taylor Greene is an embarrassment to the Republican Party. Constant Readers will know I often disagree with Ramirez, but he doesn’t simply illustrate talk radio nonsense and this is […]
I don’t know if Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereals is a “political cartoon” or a “funny cartoon” but it is certainly an “on-target cartoon” today. There’s an old wisecrack about how every time you come up with something foolproof, they invent better fools. Well, we’re mass producing them on-line, and it’s not so funny. But it […]
Clay Bennett (CTFP)‘s latest inspires a couple of reactions. One is to take it at face value, because it does feel that we’ve put a lot of bad vibes and hard feelings behind us. I’ve said before that I don’t expect a lot from Joe Biden, but a simple Jerry-Ford-like chance to exhale is good […]
I realize it’s Super Bowl Eve and we’ll get into that later, but it’s also the 11th anniversary of the start of this blog, which, as you see, began with a favorite strip and a single sentence inviting people to enjoy it. Comic Strip of the Day has evolved quite a bit since then, but […]