An odd week of funny cartoons that hit me for specific, personal reasons, so bear with me. As a reward for your indulgence, I’ll start with the most tasteless, from the Barn.Not that crayons themselves are tasteless, though they’re pretty bland. But they also don’t digest and the result is not fully technicolor poop but […]

  Let’s start with Prickly City, where, for the last couple of days, Winslow has been looking for Carmen and we have what I guess passes for a happy ending now.It is indeed scary what passes for reasonable these days.It’s also scary and depressing, by the way and excuse me for being a Grinch, what […]

I like Tom Toles’ commentary, but, then again, there’s a strong element of “So what?” in the air these days.Not “So what? It doesn’t matter,” but “so what?” in the sense of “So what are you going to do about it now?” because, from the moment Bernie Sanders conceded the nomination to Hilary Clinton and […]

Patrick Chappatte with a cartoon so wonderful that I don’t mind that it may well be obsolete by the time you see this.With the US not qualifying, I’ve been picking teams throughout World Cup only to have them disappear, and I’m reluctant to say that I’m rooting for France today, not simply because there’s a […]

We’ll start with a rare example of an artist beating the bureaucracy, with a hat tip to Bado for pointing out this WashPost article.The Postal Service wanted to feature the Statue of Liberty on a stamp. They found a nice photo of her and purchased the rights from Getty Images for $1500, then ran off […]

Arlo & Janis touches off a low-level rant, because I care more about this phenomenon on radio than I do on TV, possibly because I don’t watch a lot of TV.I appreciate that, in the Olden Days segment, he had the woman come in from the next room, because, if you were right there, phones […]

I mentioned the other day that, in eighth grade social studies, we learned the terms “log-rolling” and “back-patting,” from a teacher who also required us to know the members of the Supreme Court and of the President’s Cabinet, and, in the latter case, what their departments were charged with.It’s become a regular luncheon-speaker horror story […]

Let’s start things off with the Serendipity Award, as Rhymes With Orange drops this gag smack in the middle of a massive heat wave at least for those of us in the Northeast, which includes RWOHQ in Massachusetts.I suspect that, if you had a wax museum without AC, you could set up a pretty impressive […]

David Horsey avoided the two obvious approaches to Fourth of July cartoons: Those simply waving the flag and cheering, and those pointing out the various hypocrisies of celebrating at all.It’s almost as if he walks around actually talking to people instead of sitting in his cubbyhole absorbing and illustrating political rhetoric.The two little kids in […]

July 4, 1954, came just less than a month after Senator Welch spoke the famous lines at the Army/McCarthy hearings, “Have you no sense of decency?” All the talk about “Making America Great Again” makes it seem like a good time to take a look back at those Olden Days of Greatness on Independence Day, and […]