I’m a big fan of Father’s Day. I never thought I’d be a father and didn’t have any Father’s Days until I was 47 years old. So, having been deprived early on, I treasure them all the more now. I have no idea what I’ll get for this Father’s Day from my darling daughter, Sarah,…
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Bob's Cartoon Lounge
Not A Laugh Riot
There has been very little to find funny about this past weekend—protests and riots, but no laugh riots. Good sentiments and bad actors leave all but the most partisan conflicted. And yet, I think cartoons can still shine their light—not by being part of the polarization, but by being part of the discussion and hopefully…
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ZoooomToooons!
On the one hand, I’ve been tethered in place for the last two months. But on the other, I’ve been Zooooooooooooooooming all over the place—teaching a class on The New Yorker caption contest down at Washington and Lee University in Virginia, doing presentations on Jewish humor at JCCs all around the country, and joining a…
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The question I get most often as a cartoonist—besides “where do you get your ideas” (Ans. Cleveland)—is “what comes first, the caption or the picture?” For a cartoon with no caption at all, the answer is obvious. And interestingly enough, for the kind of word-centric cartoonist that I eventually became, in my early New Yorker…
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No Place but Home
Spring is here, and vacation season should be just around the corner. Or is it actually around the corner after that? Or maybe no vacation at all while we’re cornered at home? Whose fault is this? Pretty obvious. Other people. Lots of them. Fortunately, there’s plenty of blame to go around, which is better than…
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