In Agnes (Creators), Trout is only pretending to be obsessed with uncertainty, but she’d do well on social media, where knee-jerk skepticism is generally mistaken for wisdom. It’s good to be skeptical. You should question everything. Howsoever, there is a level of fundamentalist disbelief which is every bit as irrational as fundamental belief. Also, equally […]
Mother’s Day brought out a sort of history, unintentionally emphasizing that oddly untethered view of time and society comic strips offer, so let’s pick on Luann (AMS). She’s a good character to launch the topic, because she’s one of those loveable cartoon airheads, and, in this case, has absorbed the current pop culture concept that […]
We’ll lead off with the National Cartoonists Society winners from yesterday’s virtual convention, which, by the way, was a really good idea. The more you can bring in fans, the more you motivate them to continue being fans. And, as DD Degg has noted, the whole shebang is perserved on YouTube and he’s posted the […]
Alex notes the slight easing of quarantine and, one hopes, the slight easing of tensions caused thereby. The element of holiday visitors is a lively one here, because, when NYC blew up in the pandemic, a lot of people with second homes in New England skedaddled up here. There was some resentment at first, on […]
I’m leading off today with this Ann Telnaes piece for two reasons. One is that I like it and that she’s right: The president’s claims that he didn’t know have been further undermined by facts, specifically a revelation that he ignores his Presidential Daily Briefings. The PDBs warned of the virus and tracked its spread […]
Ben Jennings scores. This is one of those pieces where the only real response is, “Good for you,” because there are plenty of paintings that depict crowds but this is the right one. Here’s the original, not that you haven’t seen it but I wanted a second look to see how crowded the scene […]
Half Full is one of several cartoons about the switch from Good Ol’ Reggaler Time to Daylight Saving Not “Savings” Time, but it’s my favorite. Maria Scrivan is more iconic than gag-oriented and this is a topic well-worn enough that there aren’t a lot of good gags left, but an illustrator with a sense of […]
Lio may be on the right track. One advantage of a parliamentary system is that elections can be called anytime but then they only last a few weeks. Yes, Brexit went on — has gone on — forever, but that’s an exception. Under a parliamentary system, the Democrats and Republicans would each choose a party […]
A tip of the hat to Africartoons for picking up this Paolo Calleri cartoon, which uses an admittedly tired image to make a decidedly current and modern point. As noted here the other day, there is a bonding between grandparents and kids which I remember from my own youth, when “old folks” like Benjamin […]
Kal Kallaugher opines on the mystifying Mitch McConnell, who apparently doesn’t like being called “Moscow Mitch,” but, as Kal notes, refuses to allow a vote on legislation to protect the security of our election system from Russian meddling. It is a puzzlement, indeed. I was watching the Netflix series on Bobby Kennedy yesterday. It’s very […]
Thanks, Greg Cravens. It’s always particularly nice when a cartoonist puts one of the things you’ve thought to yourself into graphic form, and even nicer when it’s a wise-ass observation. And even nicer than that when it’s a wise-ass observation you never get to share because it occurs to you when you are, if not […]
This isn’t a political cartoon. We don’t do political cartoons on Friday. It’s a New Yorker cartoon, a wry observation by David Sipress on life in the city and its more comfortable suburbs. And it cracked me up just as if it were a regular cartoon and not political at all, because my social networks […]
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 […]
I recently likened Iran’s Revolutionary Guard to the middle-school bully who repeatedly pokes his finger in someone’s chest, hoping to get a response so he can say “He swung first.” Darrin Bell reverses things, and I don’t disagree. Can you imagine if Iran flew a drone off our Atlantic Coast and then tried to argue […]
Not to worry, Pig. It’s Friday Funnies! And you don’t have to actually turn it off, as Clyde demonstrates. You can just blow it off. People like Winslow and Carmen will take care of everything for you. Hope you like their plans, by the way. The difference between Pig and Clyde being that […]