Yesterday’s sermonette on Photoshopping old comics reminded me of another source of originals, which is the Library of Congress, and, specifically, this collection of classic Blondies, with Blondie’s wedding something of a centerpiece. As noted when I interviewed Dean Young in 2002, “Blondie’s marriage revived the fading strip,” and it became a colossos of the […]
I was listening to a Friday news roundup on public radio yesterday and, when they got to the Jeff Sessions segment, one of them called it “the best item of the week” and they all started laughing.Pat Bagley isn’t the only cartoonist to jump on this wounded duck of a target, but I like his […]
One of the reasons Darrin Bell pops up here so often is that we think a lot alike and another is that he draws two strips and an editorial cartoon, so the odds of him hitting me squarely on any given day are pretty good.But today’s Candorville was a marvel of synchronicity, because just two […]
Chan Lowe boils it down.There are a lot of cartoonists currently mocking Kim’s haircut and portraying him as a nutcase, but Lowe is at least hinting at the real issue in all this:Bluster.Here’s the thing: Unless you are knowledgeable about Korean culture, you don’t likely have any sense of how Kim’s take on the world […]
This is one of those Lord-Where-Do-I-Start days, and Ann Telnaes has won the toss for this salute to our impossibly-not-okay presidency.Her cartoon is not so much a case of being “too smart for the room” as of being “too well-informed for the room,” because she had to append Cliff Notes:Ivanka Trump’s company received provisional approval from the Chinese […]
Not sure if this is the start of an arc or a one-off, but Pajama Diaries has had an ongoing story that pops up now and then about Ben, who is autistic, and Terri Libenson has been handling it with a nice combination of sympathy, homework and humor.It’s a tough balancing act, because, while you can’t […]
Start with some housekeeping: The other day I updated a blog posting late in the day, after I finally tracked down a Harvey Kurtzman/Will Elder Mad Magazine parody of “Archie.”Here’s the entire feature, which Mark Jackson pointed out in the comments was originally in Mad #27, the April, 1956 issue and which I found in “Mad For Keeps” from 1958: […]
Adam Zyglis points out the vast number of positions and promises that Donald Trump has abandoned since he took office.He’s right and it’s a good way to put them all in one place, and, in another context, it might be damaging.John Kerry’s presidential campaign was deeply wounded by both relatively benign and deliberately misinterpreted accusations of […]
It’s April 15, which means little on weekends and less on Patriots Day, but taxes and Easter are sharing the comics pages today and you still can’t do better on the subject of taxes than this Shoe from 1979.An opinion that has absolutely nothing to do with the fact that I’m a writer of opinions. And […]
Amid a host of responses to The Grand Presidential Pivot, Jimmy Margulies focuses on the question I’m asking: Where is the love you said was mine, all mine, ’til the end of time?Talk about buyer’s remorse! Poor Vovochka must surely be awakening to that “you knew I was a snake when you picked me up” […]