Hugh Hefner has died, leaving behind a very mixed and difficult heritage, well covered here and so I’m not going to get too deeply into it, except that he set the standard for James Bond: Polite, educated, suave and considerate, but then exploitive and superficial. And a terrific market for cartoonists.Not Bond; Hefner. The best description of […]
While we wait for the rest of the Take A Knee cartoons to drift in, here’s today’s Prickly City, which is less entertaining for the particular strip itself as it is for the look inside the mind of a thoughtful conservative.”Thoughtful Conservative” sounds like an oxymoron but is more of an endangered minority. Granted, if […]
Today’s offering really is just one huge Juxtaposition, and I had trouble knowing where to start. Ann Telnaes won the lead position for best setting the overall mood without arguing a specific point.That sounds like damning with faint praise, but it takes a safecracker’s touch to make a statement this piercing without getting distracted by […]
We’ll start and end with a cartoon-invoked memory today, and Mother Goose & Grimm fits right in with hurricane season, because in the late ’90s, a hurricane tore apart schools in Antigua and I ended up leading an effort among newspaper education programs to assist.My counterpart there was able to skirt the usual security problems […]
Dear Leader’s Friday night off-script tirade drove Steve Artley to his drawing table for this commentary, which shows Trump taking a knee to protest and reject the burden placed upon him.For those who missed it, Trump, who can see the good side of Nazis who chant anti-Semitic slogans, expressed no such tolerance for anyone who […]
Here’s a scheduling insight, at least for the print end of the business:The Sunday paper being, in most markets, two or three or more times the size of the daily paper, the sections which can be printed in advance — chiefly Features, Classifieds and Editorial — are often done Friday in the late afternoon and […]
Canadian Gary Clement sums up international response to Dear Leader’s UN speech, with his own blind self-satisfaction being what makes the cartoon click.Every world leader is surrounded by sycophants, but I wonder how many hand-pick them for just that reason? There is something very Third Worldish about this, and that observation doesn’t change the situation. At […]
(Clay Jones) (Rob Rogers)I wasn’t sure which of these to lead with, so here’s a Juxtaposition in alphabetical order, on the topic of bringing out Sean Spicer as the punchline to Stephen Colbert’s Emmy monologue, which you can see here.You can scroll back from there and watch the whole monologue, but I thought it was […]
The whole world was watching, but French cartoonist Anne Derenne captured it best. I’ll come back to this after things settle in a little and a few more cartoons have appeared, but, in the meantime, she’s worked past the nonsensical rhetoric and seized upon the kernel of what that speech was about. We can parse the specifics, […]
David Horsey writes an appreciation of the musical “Hamilton,” praising the way it purposefully departs from a true historical setting in order to illuminate the timeless issues its real-world characters faced.Which may be the case (I haven’t seen it), and I don’t have a problem, for instance, with productions of “Hamlet” set in modern totalitarian […]