Bibbidi Bobbidi What-the-Hell?!

Graeme MacKay, 1/26/13:

This is actually how Canadians pick their political leaders -- through the time-hallowed ceremony of The Shoe Fittings.

Note that Hell Has Rolling Racks

Graeme Mackay, 10/23/11:

This may be a minor theological point, but I believe that in most conceptions of the Christian Hell -- and that's what Gadaffi's in, despite his own religion -- the damned souls are tortured, and fallen angels are the torturers.

But, here, Gadaffi is apparently being given an immediate battlefield promotion from the ranks of those stabbed with pitchforks to those doing the stabbing. I suspect Mackay did not intend this, but it's what he drew.

Too Poor to Protest

Graeme Mackay, 10/18/11:

You might think that Occupy Wall Street is an amorphous, leaderless movement, and that new protests are popping up because the people in those places have similar complaints and demand to have their voices hear.

If you do think that, it must be because you've been brainwashed by the "lamestream" media! OWS is actually a fiendish cabal, entirely controlled by shadowy figures, just off-panel here, who are rolling it out worldwide as part of a diabolical (but deeply murky) plan to do something-or-other.

Or am I thinking of the Tea Party and the Koch brothers?

Plugged and Harnessed

Graeme MacKay, 10/13/11:

I try to avoid local cartoons, since they're inevitably confusing to everyone outside that particular area.

And I also don't pick on non-US cartoons as much as I could, for similar reasons: they're unfamiliar just because they're foreign to me.

But this cartoon is one I just couldn't resist, even though it's about Bob Bratina, the mayor of the fine city of Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.

I'm assuming that the criticism here is that Bratina isn't independent enough -- that he's a tool of the city council -- but that's a creepy, unpleasant image, even if Bratina does have a shiny harness proudly emblazoned with "The Mayor."

Sit On It!

Graeme MacKay, 3/3/11:

The off-panel Admiral -- what else is that braid doing on his cuff? -- is either going to swat Gadaffi with "the West," though it looks inadequate for the job, or hand it to him so that he can continue to slaughter the hornets bedeviling him.

Tunnel of Mild Distaste

Graeme MacKay, 2/22/11:

Canada is not so enthusiastic about the US these days, and they may even be whispering disparaging comments about our border crossings.