The Stupid, It Burns Once Again

Richard Bartholomew, 12/17/12:

Gun violence has nothing to do with national culture -- Canada, with a similar number of guns per capita to the US, has much fewer spree killers -- or with mental-health issues, or size of magazines, or with phases of the moon, or any other superficially plausible explanation.

No, gun violence rises and falls in a pure link with unemployement, which is why there have been so many since 2008 and none before that -- as, for example, 1999, the lowest in 30 years.

Once again, cartoonists -- five minutes on Wikipedia. That's all we ask.

Seating Arrangements

Richard Bartholomew, 9/3/12:

Bartholomew would like it noted that, even if his guy is an empty chair, the other side's guy -- well, not the current guy, but the old guy, the one he prefers to attack -- once was reading an appropriate book to preschoolers when something horrible happened!

So there!

Call Paul Ryan What You Want -- But He's Not "Dumb"

Richard Bartolomew, 8/13/12:

Note that this cartoon works precisely as well if you flip the two tickets. This is what high-powered political-cartooning operatives call a "target-rich environment" and what we random guys on the Internet call "lazy."

I Know You Are, But What Am I?

Richard Bartholomew, 5/8/12:

It takes a very special level of obliviousness to claim one candidate is moving backwards when his opponents are calling for:

• Repealing the major legislative achievement of the last term, to replace that with nothing in particular
• Rolling back regulatory laws to at least the 1970s (or 1928, for the financial markets)
• Returning to the sexual mores of the 1950s
• among many other backwards-looking policies

Luckily, Bartholomew has that, in spades.

Oh, a Wise Guy, Eh!

Now, this is a much more unlikely pairing, but, still, it's two cartoons with exactly the same joke, from Bruce Plante:

and Richard Bartholomew:

By the way, Uncle Sam in Plante's cartoon really should be saying "Nyuk-Nyuk-Nyuk."

Three Things Makes a Cartoon

Richard Bartholomew, 3/18/11:

A potential meltdown with several days of warning is just as bad as a wartime raid that killed about 80,000 people instantly.

Also, Edvard Munch wants royalties.

Shaky

Richard Bartholomew, 3/11/11:

Don't quote me on this, but I think that guy on the right is supposed to be Japanese.

Richard Bartholomew: 2/11/11

Richard Bartholomew, 2/11/11:
You ever heard the phrase "if you give them an inch, they'll take a mile"? Well, if you let democracy topple one Middle Eastern dictator, then you're just setting the stage for a bloody purge in US daytime television. Do you want blood in the halls of ABC? Then prop up those dictators with all your might!