When George Washington Talks, People Listen

Jimmy Margulies, 11/8/13:

Money has more followers on Twitter? Does money tweet often?

(I'm sure this is supposed to be a comment on the Twitter IPO, but it's mixing up the service Twitter provides and the valuation of the ownership of Twitter, which have very little to do with each other.)

Name a 66-Year Old White Southerner You're SURE Has Never Used That Word -- I Dare You

Jimmy Margulies, 6/24/13:

The KKK was not, as we may have heard, a terrorist organization that killed hundreds and ruled communities by fear for decades before their power was finally broken.

No, they're just white people who used "the N-word" once or twice, which is exactly as bad.

The "I'm Rubber, You're Glue" Argument

Jimmy Margulies, 10/21/12:

The National Collegiate Athletics League has sex with men for money, and therefore betting on their games is morally acceptable.

What's worse: they charge relatively low sums of money.

Presumably, the NFL, NBA, NHL, and Major League Baseball also trade hummers for twenties, thus giving New Jerseans ample moral cover to try to cover the spread on that next Niners game in Atlantic City.

For the Chop

Jimmy Margulies, 5/7/12:

So Murdoch manufactured the entire phone-hacking scandal -- the hacking itself, the media outcry over it, the Parliamentary inquiries, the investigations into his holdings, the demotion of his own son, the possible loss of the phenomenally profitable BSkyB network -- to sell more of his money-losing newspapers? (Such a shrewd businessman!)

And, if that's the case, why does the headsman have his axe backwards? Is that part of Rupert's plan as well?

Where's the Bandstand?

Jimmy Margulies, 4/20/12:

If a single person in this world can produce one example of a work for solo harp that "has a beat," I'll eat my hat.

What we have here is a case where the other standard It's Sad When Someone Dies cartoon -- the dead guy meeting Saint Peter -- would have been infinitely preferable, and slightly less stupid.

I Spy With My CBS Eye

Robert Ariail, 4/9/12:

It's always a great day in editorial-cartoon-land when a famous person dies: you've got your choice of Single Tear or Saint Peter cartoons, and you can be even duller and more sentimental than usual.

For the Saint Peter cartoons, see David Fitzsimmons (4/9):

and John Darkow (4/9):

and Jimmy Margulies (4/9):

and Milt Priggee (4/9):

(A few others had Satan or a God-like figure trembling at Wallace's coming, which is still cliched and dull, but at least is better than these absolutely bog-standard entries.)

I Prefer Carnac the Magnificent

Jimmy Margulies, 3/29/12:

Gas in the US is so expensive...

HOW EXPENSIVE IS IT!?

It's so expensive that it's almost half as much as most Europeans pay!

Or, as my fourteen-year-old likes to say, "Suck it up, you big babies!"

Sing It With Me, Fellas!

Kevin Siers, 10/18/11:

and Jimmy Margulies, 10/19/11:

Please tell me "Wonderful World" is Cain's official theme song; otherwise, this is just too creepy for words.

Hot Enough for Ya?

Scott Stantis, 7/21/11:

Sometimes it gets hot in the summertime, and this is surprising.

Also see cartoons by Jimmy Margulies, Paul Fell, Robert Ariall, and Jeff Stahler.

Pat Bagley gets away with it by actually including an element of political humor, which was once considered a prerequisite for this job. Chris Britt attempts a non sequitur that should rightfully been done by a cartoonist in Kansas.

At the Start of a Pretty Big Downer

Jimmy Margulies, 4/19/11:

So it's better if he gets sliced by two knives at once? Perhaps this metaphor has not been thought through with the precision that one would have hoped.

Still, it's clearly bad times for pasty, flabby white guys in New Jersey.

Pants on the Ground

Jimmy Margulies, 4/17/11:

Recipe for a Sunday editorial cartoon:

• take one exceedingly minor scandal, in this case, the revelation that some New Jersey state employees have a uniform allowance even though they wear normal office clothes
• connect to some outdated and extremely cranky characterization of people younger than the cartoonist -- extra points if there's a whiff of class or race condescension
• whip up quickly in order to make a Saturday-afternoon tee time.

I Only Budget for the Articles

Jimmy Margulies, 2/16/11:

The fat Statue of Liberty clearly represents the U.S. budget, and the three dollar bills -- Wars, Entitlements, and Tax Cuts -- are the only things keeping her decent at all. So those three things must be maintained, while Lady Liberty is sent to take long, strenuous runs on the beach to lose some extra weight.

Also, Margulies creepily draws the obese Liberty with almost precisely the same face as New Jersey Governor Chris Christie.

Jimmy Margulies: 2/8/11

Jimmy Margulies, 2/8/11:
Mubarak might be a repressive dictator, but, for Israel, he's about the only repressive dictator within a thousand miles that hasn't declared a desire to immediately destroy their country. So they're not necessarily happy about the outbreak of democracy. Either that, or they just finished paying for that statue.