I like Tom Toles’ commentary, but, then again, there’s a strong element of “So what?” in the air these days.Not “So what? It doesn’t matter,” but “so what?” in the sense of “So what are you going to do about it now?” because, from the moment Bernie Sanders conceded the nomination to Hilary Clinton and […]
Pretty harsh treatment by Belgian cartoonist Luc Descheemaeker, and, yes, it’s pretty easy to yell “Hitler!” Calling people “nazis” has weakened the insult over the years, and comparing egotistical leaders to Hitler has weakened that simile as well.I guess the neglected part of the story of the boy who cried “Wolf!” is that he wouldn’t have pulled […]
Joy of Tech speaks for me and I’m grateful not only for the laff but for the assurance that I’m not the only one and that it has nothing to do with my being old and not a digital native. I’m convinced that Facebook has a system of showing you things you don’t give a damn […]
It’s World Press Freedom Day, which seems to be noted in other countries more than it is in the United States. This cartoon is one of several on the topic at Cartoon Movement and is by Egyptian cartoonist Doaa Eladl.I’ll admit I haven’t kept up with the specifics of the back-and-forth in Egypt since the Arab […]
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 […]
I could start and end with this Tom Toles piece, which not only summarizes our incoherent, solipsistic foreign relations stance but also captures the same tendencies in Dear Leader.It’s no surprise that a man who lies incessantly about things a third-grader could prove were false — like claiming not to have spent the night in […]
I like Mike Luckovich’s obit cartoon for Barbara Bush, because it suggests an edge to her that I could certainly see and that others reported from time to time.And which you sure wouldn’t pick up on from the mawkish, sentimental glurge so many other cartoonists provided.I would normally despise a tear in a cartoon, particularly […]
Having appropriately devoted yesterday to the passing of Mort Walker, here are a few Sunday cartoons I might otherwise have run, starting with this hail-and-farewell from Piranha Club.Bud Grace is his early 70s, so I don’t begrudge him the retirement, but I’m certainly going to miss the strip, which appears to be petering out in […]
The thoughts I wrote about on youth and writing yesterday had been bouncing around for a few weeks, but came into focus when I read JP Trostle’s “Nautilus,” a graphic memoir of his mother’s death and the extended mountain of stuff she left behind.It was a moment of “Yes – this is what I mean!”This […]
Betty has been touring Italy for the past month and a half, longer if you include all their preparation for the trip, but today there is a pause in the travelogue for a shot at the volks back home.Even on holiday on the other side of the globe and more than 2,000 years in the […]