Turkish cartoonist Halit Kurtulmus Aytoslu is not the only cartoonist to file a quick overnight response to the bombing at an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester last night.However, he makes the most profound statement, neither simply weeping nor raging in abstract defiance.There is in these moments the dichotomy Shakespeare described in Macbeth, when MacDuff learns his […]
Yes, that would be a good name for a band. Meanwhile, it’s also a good theme for the day, taken from Robert Burns’ classic poem about a prideful woman in church who doesn’t realize the people behind her are not admiring her fashionable beauty but watching a louse crawl around on her.Let’s start with a Juxtaposition: (Omar Al […]
As if to inflame a simmering controversey in the comments of a few days back, Paul Gilligan offers Poncho a choice of super powers and he picks one that would of course place him in the Alternate Comestible Universe, a series that Marvel will be launching next month.It consists of 12 variant editions released every week […]
I’m cheating: My rule is that a cartoon is fresh until it has been replaced, regardless of date of issue.This Clay Bennett cartoon actually ran a week ago, and, while there are several editorial cartoonists for whom a week-old cartoon remains “current,” Bennett is considerably more prolific than that.Nonetheless, if not “timely” under the rules […]
I’m not really assigning anything, but school has ended for my young writers in Colorado and I’m sure many of them were sent home with summer reading lists. I don’t like summer reading lists because, as I noted long ago, they are too often larded with classics the creator of the list hasn’t read and that make no sense. Or […]
I put this together the other day, upon the news that Trump had straight-out asked Comey to back off the investigation, but I’ll admit that, at the time, I didn’t actually foresee poor ol’ Sol being led to the car.Now, well … maybe Tom won’t get him off the hook. Maybe he won’t be able to, […]
The best part about that classic Geico commercial — aside from the number of times the camel says my name — is that, however annoying he may be, the people trying to ignore him are apparently locked into work they don’t enjoy. It’s not like he’s distracting them from something they want to be doing. Which means I […]
A little housekeeping, first. As Marla has been searching for a new assistant manager in Retail, hiring Val has been hanging out there as the obvious move.Today, that gets cleared up in a style that reminds us of the boutique Marla has long dreamed of owning, and that Norm Feuti worked in retail for many […]
Mike Marland comments on the poor, delicate flowers in our Granite State legislature.I wouldn’t headline a regional piece like this, except that the New Hampshire state legislature often becomes national news in the form of “Can you believe these nuts?”It’s rare for any of the fringey, nonsensical bills that come up in the legislature to […]
I will confess that Jimmy Margulies’s cartoon is serving as a backdrop today to a thought that knocked me out of my recliner last night, rather than a direct result of his work.However, it’s a good graphic tie-in, because you can pick at Trump for firing Comey, for nepotism, for monetizing the presidency, for appointing […]