(Mo) (Clay Jones) Two of the more engaged people I know express outrage over those who are not engaged. Jones, as is his wont, accompanies his cartoon with an essay on the topic of willful, deliberate ignorance, noting appropriately that it’s one thing for Deplorables to remain ignorant of the charges against their […]
(Mo) (Non Sequitur) (Arlo and Janis) “Where’s your social consciousness?” Abbie Hoffman screamed, and then broke into giggles at the humorless politicos who decried anyone who dared to have fun while a war was going on. This three-way Juxtaposition sums up my current mood: I share Mo’s despair, but I agree with Kate […]
I like this old photo of a Boise fire brigade racing off to a fire because the firefighters are hanging on, still struggling into their gear, while the horses are at full speed, on the job and having the time of their lives. As this piece from Merrimack, NH, Fire Rescue explains, the horses that […]
I always hesitate before using Mo because it only comes out once a week and you really should be giving it clicks yourself. Still, at a time when I feel like we should all be panicking, her muted disappointment in the world echoes my own. By contrast, Jeff Stahler drops some for-real cynicism in […]
After nearly a week of odd isolation — five days with no company beyond some of the most brilliant editorial cartoonists in the country — Ann Telnaes and Mo come home to find something strange rolling down the street. I don’t know about the other attendees, but I had enough of a superficial view of […]
I’m mostly sharing this week’s Mo because if Ann Telnaes is going to stick me with this earworm, I’m gonna pass it along like mumps. I’m sympathetic to vegetarians, but I’m unconvinced by the faux hamburger everyone’s going on about. It’s not a luxury, but it’s not cheap. I suppose if we all bought it, […]
Mo points out that those who serve and wait rarely get a chance to stand, and there are indeed people working Labor Day and, I hope, still plenty of people who aren’t. Here’s my rant on the topic, worth saying, worth reading, but not worth repeating as often as it becomes relevant. When I first […]
Start with an old man’s correction to a lot of Moon Landing cartoons. It was not the Moon landing that made people aware of the need to preserve the Earth. It was Apollo 8, seven months earlier, from which this iconic photo of the Big Blue Marble was taken. Seeing the Earth rise over the […]
There are several editorial cartoons about the US women’s World Cup win; I like Mo because it’s joyful and then comes back to The Point. It’s important to point out that the women, for the most part at least, recognize that they can’t get the same number of dollars as the men because they don’t […]
Today featured a lot of good work on the funny pages, but, just to show I’m not ignoring the current crisis, I’ll start with Non Sequitur, which is good commentary on the Department of Justice. And I’d add that, while I’m not sure of Wiley’s timing on posts, it’s not easy for a comic strip […]
Bizarro explains it all, or, at least, most of it. There are any number of directions you could go from here, starting with a reminder of how daunting it is to come up with 313 daily laffs, plus 52 Sundays. Charles Schulz used to recommend that aspiring cartoonists start by doing a year’s worth of […]
Juxtaposition of the Whimper, not the Bang (Mo) (RJ Matson) Mo and Bartender can fret all they want over the hijacking of the Fourth of July Celebration in Washington, but the best outcome would be a massive boycott and no crowds and — Guess what? — that ain’t gonna happen. Alice Roosevelt Longworth said of […]
I’m as distracted as Mo — this has been quite a weekend, and if the worst outcome is a chunk of pineapple in your martini, you got away with a better taste in your mouth than the rest of us. It’s even worse than this. Ann Telnaes apparently drew this one before Trump first failed […]
As my colleague DD Degg noted recently, Stephan Pastis has been getting more philosophical at Pearls Before Swine lately, with his tribute to his dog getting a great deal of attention. This shift means that the strip doesn’t always produce the belly laughs it did when it was new, but it probably wouldn’t anyway. We’re […]
Marty Two-Bulls has standing to comment on the incident at the Lincoln Memorial, or maybe he should recuse himself, I’m not sure which. The Rashomon element of this event is incredibly strong, with plenty of blame and a bit of unfortunate timing and a huge element of “Where were the grown ups?” not only in […]