Pat Bagley brings the latest terrorist weapon into his commentary, with Trump driving over our allies by cancelling America’s participation in the multi-nation deal to control Iran’s nuclear program.Two things to note:He doesn’t include Russia and China in this line-up, though they were signatories to the deal and are likely as unhappy with the feckless, […]
I find most generational/technical-gap gags pretty lame, but I really like today’s Zits, and would be curious to know how postcard sales have been impacted, first by digital cameras and second by the Internet.According to Wikipedia, there was a craze for postcards touched off by the Columbian Exhibition, which opened 125 years ago this coming […]
There was a time when, if some movie star or other random celebrity gave a good speech, someone might say “That’s who should be in the White House!”And everyone would agree, but nobody would take it seriously. There was never a sincere effort to make Mark Twain or Will Rogers president, much less Mary Pickford […]
Today’s Big Nate provides a cliffhanger to which every wiseass and class clown can relate.I used to draw/write little fake newspapers full of parody news pieces that weren’t terribly masked in terms of whom I was spearing, and they got passed around a lot.The only blow-back I recall was a story senior year about the […]
Mark Anderson offers a good jumping off point today, because he’s right that people want confirmation, not confrontation.That should provoke more of a sad smile than a hearty laugh, but, in any case, it’s a good illustration for a topic in which I will be discussing trends but not breaking the Prime Directive by pointing […]
Mike Marland on a local story that about put me off the road yesterday.Yep, according to NHPR and a few other places, Steve Bannon is coming to the Granite State to raise money for a right-wing group, with the proceeds to “support training and support for local Republican candidates in 2018.”Presumably the ones they manage to […]
Several cartoonists posted work from the past on Facebook and Twitter yesterday, and I began collecting it on the assumption that few would move quickly to address the Vegas shootings.In fact, quite a few did, but I’m leading with this John Cole 2015 piece because it’s an excellent summary of a common thread, and it’s […]
As I expected, there have been a lot of DACA cartoons landing in the past 24 hours, though there are also a lot of cartoons about the approaching hurricane, which make the courageous, controversial editorial point “Here comes a hurricane.” David Horsey gets to represent all the Dream/Nightmare cartoons because he puts it in such stark, […]
Amid a flurry of tepid cartoons about John McCain’s not-so-great diagnosis, David Fitzsimmons keeps focus on things.Yesterday, I ran into a friend who has, in the past two weeks, gotten word of an aggressive cancer. I gave her a hug and reminded her that I’d had the same bad news a little over a year […]