Juxtaposition of the Day (Andy Marlette) (Drew Litton – AMS) The deaths of Nichelle Nichols and Bill Russell may leave me without a lot of material to work with over the next little while, since their obituary cartoons seem a large portion of everybody’s current production. I’m not much on obituary cartoons, and most […]
In posting this cartoon to his Twitter page, Pat Byrnes admitted that he’d likely undercounted the number of gun deaths on the left side, but was content to make the point that, despite the successful intervention of a bystander in an Indiana mall shooting, “Good guys with guns” are a pretty poor defense system. And […]
Crabgrass (AMS) sums up my take on all of today’s “broken resolutions” cartoons. It’s a good thing to have some point at which you stop and do an assessment each year, but hearing about it reminds me of why so many writers don’t talk about what they’re working on: Either you’ll do it or you’ll […]
For some reason, I didn’t see a lot of “bear trap in the fireplace” gags this year. Which is a good thing, I would add. However, Monty (AMS) put a spin on that tired old chestnut, and there’s nothing I love more than watching Sedgewick try to be a real boy, while his patient butler, […]
Tim Campbell (WPWG)‘s joke notwithstanding, one of the first things we learned in business law is that a price tag is not binding and that both parties are free to bargain until some kind of consideration changes hands. That’s obvious with the sticker on an automobile window, less so with a tag on a can […]
On the 20th Anniversary of the attacks of 9/11, Steve Breen (Creators) demonstrates that less is more. I’m surprised more cartoonists didn’t feel compelled to mark the day, but perhaps they realized how little they had to add to the conversation. It was hardly a banner day for the art form then, and the proportion […]
(Peter Schrank) (Bob Gorrell – Creators) This Juxtaposition offers a starting point for the day, because Schrank is British, which puts a somewhat different spin on the idea: The world has long criticized America for playing “Cops of the World,” though it has a spotty record for either welcoming or turning down the help. […]
Ed Hall drew this one a few days ago, as the Taliban resurgence was just beginning, and it all fell down about as fast as that. As appropriate a metaphor it is, it’s an ironic one in light of the continuing flood of “evacuating Saigon” cartoons, because, as noted the other day, Afghanistan is not […]
Peter Schrank comments on the report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, specifically noting the wildfires raging in Greece (in case you thought only we here had them). And David Pope echoes the concern, with a slightly less grim cartoon overall but adding some lightning-bolt-hurling on the part of a god depicted not […]
I noted yesterday that I could have done a full day of nothing but “Ted Cruz in Mexico” cartoons, and, as it turns out, I’d have still had enough left over to do it again today. Someone complained that people are forgetting the far more significant horrible things he’s done and maybe so, but I […]
That’s the $750 question, but, while we wait for those cartoons to come in, let’s examine the rest of the evidence: Tom Toles (AMS) plays with a well-known Franklin anecdote, opening a difficult question. The original was “A lady asked Franklin (at the close of the Constitutional Convention): “Well, Doctor, what have we got—a Republic […]
I wouldn’t have brought up Harry and Meghan so prematurely the other day if I’d realized how much their decision to put their marriage ahead of parental expectations was going to explode into an international incident. I like Steve Sack‘s take because it tells the tale so simply, like finding out that Orr paddled all […]
A leftover from yesterday, this Pajama Diaries has been rattling around in my consciousness for a couple of reasons. One is that, as Terri Libenson brings the comic to a close — there’s only two weeks left — I’m going to really miss it but I suspect that she, like Jill, is doing a little […]
Signe Wilkinson answers my question, which was “Where to start?” Let’s start at the very beginning; a very good place to start. When you read you begin with A-B-C, when you read the Mueller Report you begin with DOH! Oh, dear! Wilkinson is right: It’s all there. I will confess I have not read the […]
A half-century ago, the Democratic National Convention in Chicago was under way and all hell was breaking loose in America. It wasn’t just the violence and chaos in the streets, or the violence and chaos inside the convention hall, where Daley’s goons were beating up Dan Rather. It was more the unmasking of the divisions […]