I’ve never started a blog post with your moment of zen, but, then, I’ve never felt we were so desperately becalmed.And it’s only one minute and 35 seconds of terrifyingly appropriate mood-setting zen, so wotthehell.Joel Pett marks World Press Freedom Day and, discouraging as his take seems, it’s really only a symptom of a much larger issue, […]

After the shortest retirement in history, or, more precisely, in lieu of it, former New Yorker Cartoon Editor Bob Mankoff has become Esquire Magazine Cartoon Editor Bob Mankoff. The press release is interesting without being indiscreet, but the cartoon Mankoff drew to go with it suggests that he’s happy to be out of a job he […]

Serbian cartoonist Predrag Srbljanin marks May 1 with a reminder that it has been a full century since the Russian revolution freed the workers and that the march towards the Workers’ Paradise hasn’t exactly set any speed records.My initial, five-in-the-morning reaction was that I hadn’t remembered it was the centennary of International Workers’ Day, but a […]

Phew! Just when I was burning out on politics, funny page cartoonists came through with a slew of good, non-political inspiration!Pen DropStart with one I have nothing to comment upon: Today’s Rhymes with Orange.This is just … nah, I’ve got nothin’ but “Wow.”She been hangin’ around with Sergio Aragones or something? John Cullen Murphy is tearin’ me […]

Mike Marland specializes in regional New Hampshire commentary, but got off a good 100 Days cartoon that sums up more than the presidency.What’s that phrase conservatives use to derail civil rights policies? “The soft bigotry of low expectations”?Yeah, well, there ya go. We were so sure Trump wouldn’t be able to keep any of his […]

Today’s Loose Parts is delightfully meta.Larson’s 1984 gag played on the fact that the whole notion of opposable thumbs was something we learned in biology class and then didn’t even file away: We just tossed it into the junk drawer of our minds until the moment it became his punchline.And it worked so well for Larson […]

In case you thought only America was trapped in the Looking Glass world, here’s French cartoonist Anne Derenne on the appointment of Saudi Arabia to the UN Women’s Rights Commission, a development so astonishingly absurd that everyone from TownHall to Teen Vogue is gob-smacked. UN Watch Executive Director Hillel Neuer’s tweet is being quoted widely, and the UN Watch […]

Let’s start the conversation with Tom Tomorrow, whose overall analysis of the Trump administration pleases me mostly because it skips recurring, tired gripes to discuss overall strategies.He is noted for his year-end wrap-up specials and this feels like a mini-version. He doesn’t mention the 100 Day mark and it’s not clear he had it at all in mind, […]

Zits made me laugh, but I quickly realized it’s a bit out of date, since over-controlling mothers these days are not foiled by distance.I’m not sure I accept the helicopter parent horror stories of college administrators — that is, I believe they happen, but I suspect they aren’t so frequent as to be typical.Or, as the […]

Dave Coverly is very old.He’s sooo old that he remembers toy surprises in cereal, as seen in today’s Speed Bump.Though he’s not so old that the toy surprise in the bird feeder looks semi worth having, which makes it seem he’s only my kids’ age and not mine. At the risk of being an old man, […]