We’ll end the week with a bit of politics, as Gary Clement (Cartoon Arts) hits with one of the first cartoons to shift from war to cease-fire in the Middle East. I found it particularly interesting because I stumbled onto the press conference the White House scheduled with the President Biden and South Korean President […]
David Rowe points out Biden’s success in forcing through his stimulus with the help of a successful vaccine rollout. As noted in his marginal tip-of-the-hat, it’s a take on W.A. Rogers’ cartoon about Roosevelt, which leaves me wondering if Rowe thinks it’s all such a good thing after all, since the original Big Stick […]
I’m often impatient with Gary Markstein (Creators). He keeps up his partnership with Tony Rubino at their daily strip, “Daddy’s Home” consistently, but posts his own political commentary so rarely that I’m sometimes tempted to drop him from my GoComics lineup. However, it’s paid off this time around, because he posted this one January 12, […]
Tank McNamara (AMS) dips a toe into troubled waters this morning, with the joking suggestion that an NFL team that has finally abandoned its offensive name might consider a politically correct but absurdly clumsy one instead. By which I mean that I can’t imagine sportscasters saying “The Indigenous People” in place of the still awkward […]
Matt Wuerker starts off today’s review of conspiracies with the widespread notion that the stock market is reflective of the overall economy. As he notes, the connection between the Dow Jones and how average people live is tenuous at best and, at the moment, we’re not “at best.” The market is inbred: It’s no longer […]