Time Person of the Year cartoons are piling up, as are social media posts pointing out that Adolph Hitler also made the cut, but I think Dave Granlund hit the combo with this collection of Dubious Heroes. Though he missed this one from 1979. It’s not intended as an honor. It’s supposed to reflect the […]
This is a “where to start” day, but we’ll lead off with Non Sequitur (AMS), because, while I don’t blame it all on the media, I agree with Wiley that the states that were so important a few weeks ago are no longer on anyone’s mind. Election promises are famous for being empty, but I […]
Ian Boothby is right: Paying attention to what’s going on is not good for you. Unfortunately, failure to pay attention to what’s going on is even worse for everybody in the long run. And while there may be some dark satisfaction in schadenfreude, hoping for people to realize what they’ve wrought won’t stop what they’ve […]
Christopher Downes offers some laughs as the Trump administration begins to take shape, but his exaggerations are well grounded. Trump truly is advancing Christian nationalism despite having no real sense of what’s in the Bible. He went to church as a kid, but the Trumps were congregants of Norman Vincent Peale, who wrote The Power […]
We’ll get to knaves and fools in a minute, but first a salute to unintentional genius, as The Brilliant Mind of Edison Lee (KFS) magically riffs on the McDonald’s e coli outbreak despite having been scripted and drawn well before it happened. Sometimes the Fates smile and make you look really smart, but, alas, there […]
Nick Anderson (Tribune) salutes the 118th Congress, one of the least productive congresses in history, as it disbands to go home and run for office based on having done little but squabble and preen. They’ll be gone until after the election, which won’t make much of a difference to the nation, since I’m quite sure […]
Lets begin with a personal laff I got from this Flying McCoys (AMS). One of my jobs as a business writer in the late 80s was to cover openings and closings at the local mall. The publicity director there was a pal, but she had a job to do. I wrote an update on the […]
Adam@Home provides an opportunity for me to complain about something relatively trivial and segue into something more substantive that I’ve been reluctant to bitch about. Rob Harrell and I could quarrel about what the ends of an untied bow tie look like, but floppy is floppy. On the other hand, I think he’d agree that […]
John Branch provides a welcome alternative to the flood of Emma Lazarus re-writes currently flooding the editorial cartooning pool. I’m not sure that the best cartoons are wordless, but it’s not a theory I’d argue against, either. The Emma Lazarus knock-offs are at a disadvantage anyway, because, while most people are familiar with more or […]
Radio Patrol is, granted, a Vintage strip I read for its camp qualities, but today’s final panel knocked me out of my chair because “Cheese it! The cops!” is a stock phrase like “23 Skidoo” that I can’t believe anyone actually said in real life. Though I’ll admit to having said “Far out” until it […]
Pros and Cons puts matters in a way I like: Whimsical on the surface, darker inside. It’s a good starting point for today’s post. The face you present to a jury and the face your friends and relations see might be an extreme example, but much in your life depends, I think, on the distance […]
It would be awfully hard not to lead off with Patrick Blower‘s commentary on the new, voluntary trade wars, simply for the color and dynamism of the piece. But it’s more than eye-catching, with the absurdity of Trump and his little leash-and-collar, about to be ignominiously crushed by household appliances rather than suffering the more […]