Brewster Rockit (Tribune) is usually silly, except that on random Sundays it will suddenly take a kind of Mr. Wizard shift and explain something about astronomy. (For those too young to recognize the name, Mr. Wizard was who we watched on TV before we had Carl Sagan or Neil deGrasse Tyson.) This is a nice […]
In a genuinely post-Civil-War nation, Dennis Draughon’s cartoon wouldn’t be particularly relevant, as we await details of Donald Trump’s indictments and the reaction thereto. But we are currently involved in a Civil War, which makes the removal of Confederate leaders’ names from US military bases relevant overall, and particularly so in the case of General […]
Sage Stossel gets as political as I’m planning to be today, the Yea! factor here being that the minions are being exposed, the Boo! factor being that they exist at all. And Boo! to the sinless purists who condemn people like Leibovich and Miller for having ever been in the mud, even though they stepped […]
Monty (AMS)‘s pal Moondog is still hauling a turkey around and aren’t we all? Thanksgiving leftovers are something people in cartoons complain about but that I suspect people in real life not only don’t mind but actually enjoy. The microwave really shines this time of year, when you can quickly recreate Thanksgiving dinner in miniature, […]
We’re starting to move kids back into the schoolrooms, and Signe Wilkinson (AMS) questions the wisdom of the move. There are many layers of this issue, and “Follow the science” is deeply tangled up with “Follow the sociology.” Joe Heller takes a similarly skeptical view of the development. Is it science, or is it […]
Having recently discussed how often cartoonists land on the same concept, here’s Adam Zyglis (Cagle) with an example of accepting the fact and making it work. Rockwell’s painting is “Freedom from Want,” one of his four freedom classics, celebrating the best of American culture and tradition, and, specifically, the Four Freedoms laid out in FDR’s […]
Wouldn’t it be nice if they carried signs like this fellow in Macanudo? But we don’t discuss politics on Friday. However, discussing both life and philosophy is permitted and Macanudo (KFS) is often the sort of thing you could spin a whole day from if you slowed down enough. Is a humble-bragger more to be […]
A lady once asked him how he came to define ‘pastern’, the knee of a horse: instead of making an elaborate defence, as might be expected, he at once answered, “Ignorance, Madam, pure ignorance.” — Boswell’s “Life of Samuel Johnson” Sometimes the best defense is no defense at all, but for an arrogant egotist like Johnson […]
There are a lot of environmental cartoons out there and perhaps there is some shift in public perception. However, I’m not prepared to say “Now they get it!” until I see more proof. But Pat Bagley lays out the situation without predicting what will happen next, and he’s on firm ground. Let’s begin with the […]
Rolling Stone Magazine profiles XKCD cartoonist Randall Monroe and his new book, “What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions” Since 2012, Munroe has also been answering weekly reader questions about science, ranging from “What would it take to stop an out-of-control freight train using only b.b. guns?” to “What would happen if you tried […]