Yes, I’ve seen “Avatar,” and I really wasn’t that impressed. Neither was my youngest daughter, who is not quite 10. Unlike me, she had every reason to love “Avatar.” She’s both a sci-fi fan and a student of myths and legends.

Me? I don’t fly much. I’ve got travel issues. I’m not afraid to fly, mind you — though I’ve never bought the notion that airline travel is much safer than traveling by car.

I admit to swinging both ways, sometimes, when I express my editorial viewpoint. It’s just too easy to poke fun of politicians whether or not I disagree with their policies. Like most editorial cartoonists, I’m easily amused but rarely outraged by the shenanigans in Washington.
So, judging from the cartoons that illustrate this blog, just how [...]

Over a long career drawing caricatures and editorial cartoons, I can report that Sarah Palin is one of the greatest gifts ever to our profession! She’s more fun than Bill and Hillary combined. She has the intellectual wattage of George W. Bush coupled with the paranoia of Richard Nixon! And that presents endless comic opportunities [...]

My view on health care reform will outrage many: I support a single-payer system. There, I said it.
BUT, for those of you who’ve just written me off as a “socialist,” please bear with me for a few paragraphs before you…pull the plug. Or call me a LIAR!
At this point in the debate, I don’t care [...]

Yep — this is a cheap shot! I make a living at it, however measly.
But, come to think of it, I have something in common with the esteemed professor Henry Louis Gates: Nineteen years ago, I was held at gunpoint by three policemen right outside my own studio door. And I’m unmistakably white!
The incident started [...]

In December of 2008, Tribune Media Services, my syndicate at the time, commissioned me to draw an illustration featuring Barack Obama and several of our other presidents, for a special Inaugural Edition to be published by The Chicago Tribune.
Recently, I’ve been asked why there are two versions of this illustration? The one posted to the [...]

I’ve discovered that I have something in common with Sarah Palin: The ability to ramble incoherently. So, permit me to blather away! If you get bored, multitask while you’re reading, or skimming, this blog. That’s what I’m doing as I write it.
But don’t worry, I won’t talk about Bristol Palin or the rest of the [...]

Something must be wrong with me. Three giants of showbiz died two weeks ago, yet I wasn’t a big fan of any of them.
Ed McMahon? He was a very talented pitchman. But I preferred the hilarious send-up of McMahon, in the guise of “Hank Kingsley,” on “The Larry Sanders Show.” Actor Jeffrey Tambor’s signature Kingsleyism, [...]

…Sniff…Sniff. Hey, what’s that smell? Ugh, looks like the Speaker of the House has really stepped in it! Oy — and such expensive shoes! And now she’s leaving a circle of foul footprints in the Capitol Rotunda. So, just how much did Nancy Pelosi know about waterboarding, and when did she know it?
“MADAME SPEAKER! Point [...]