This Juxtaposition at GoComics struck me today not just because two cartoonists played with the same concept, but because it’s a pair of evergreen gags.
Which is not the same as a stolen gag, the difference being that Superman is such a widely parodied topic that we don’t expect earth-shattering originality, and I say that with confidence, given that it’s May 5th and so yesterday we were assailed with Star Wars gags, most of which were comfortably familiar riffs on a Beloved Topic.
Superman is not only a Beloved Topic, but the twisted, contradictory storyline his own creators have invented is simply begging to be mocked, for instance in the area of eye exams.
Timing is everything, and I’m in firm agreement with the woman in
Christopher Weyant’s cartoon, because the pollen right now is kicking my ass, and maybe putting the mask back on would be a good idea, even though I’ve had both my shots.
Our governor has canceled the mandate, a little prematurely I think, but since most of my interactions are outdoors, it hardly matters.
But most stores are still requiring it, so this
Steve Kelley (Creators) cartoon strikes home. It’s some tribute to my subconscious mind that I don’t think much about it when I go to the grocery store, but it still feels funny masking up to go into the liquor store.
Matt Bors to interview him about his now-in-the-past editorial cartooning career and what he plans for the future.
I was motivated from the beginning to say something political about what was going on originally, that was the Iraq war, and that turned into other things over the years. I had grown tired of it at various points in time, because following the news and social media constantly can be pretty draining. But I was pretty successful and fairly good at it, so it became automatic for me to do it every week.
I had a lot more clients back in the day, too. A lot more papers ran me in the early 2000s, and it’s been kind of a steady decline. In the last 10 years, I’ve probably had more success in my career in a way certainly more visibility online and all that but fewer paying outlets where my stuff was running.
April 16, 2021
Let’s start by saying it could be worse: This isn’t a cartoon but a classic illustration by Elizabeth Butler of
The march to Jalalabad began with 4,000 soldiers and 12,000 civilian supporters, but was reduced to badly wounded ass’t surgeon William Brydon, alone on a pony that died of its own wounds shortly after arrival.
Granted, the British returned to level Kabul, put their chosen leader back in power and maintain him for about another decade, but there’s a reason Afghanistan is called “The Graveyard of Empires.”
Drew Sheneman (AMS) asks how we can exit gracefully, and the answer is simple: If there were a graceful way out, we’d have taken it long ago.
Plantu, has drawn his last cartoon for
Le Monde.
As he announced in January, the designer Plantu, who has just celebrated his 70th birthday, has asserted his retirement rights within the daily newspaper. He signs his last drawing in one of Le Monde in the edition published on Wednesday and dated Thursday. We see an Emmanuel Macron not knowing what measures to take to curb the Covid-19 epidemic. “Nothing was easy because it was my last drawing,” he told France 24.
For his latest drawing on the front page of the benchmark French daily, which adorns the edition published on Wednesday and dated Thursday 1