Every time comics become a little more accepted in the overall zeitgeist, the more often I wonder if the medium’s traditional madness will be smoothed over. Most comic covers have already ditched exposition and teasers in favor of character poses and mid-fight snapshots.
Now this?

That’s a fucking cover. It’s a shame that the actual story [...]

I have no clue where this image comes from, but I am goddamn sure that having a Rushmore golem patrolling the countryside cannot possibly go terribly wrong. This is the future of politics, people.

It turns out the fellow who draws Mother Goose and Grimm also draws editorial cartoons. The daily strip is an exercise in the banal, but the editorial cartoons are actually pretty good.

It’s strange watching the right-wing attempt to protest; their heart is in it, but they don’t know what they’re actually supposed to do. To be fair, the right isn’t any better than the left at staying on message.

Operation Coffee Cup was a campaign intended to organized opposition to “socialized medicine”, or Medicare. Regan cut a record for it.

On the recording Reagan states the following about Medicare –

…one of these days you and I are going to spend our sunset years telling our children, and our children’s children, what it once was like [...]

The exact length of Dr. Doom Fulminations as determined by Google. Important data that, finally, has been visualized. The jpg artifacts are a value-add.

Graph pulled from SA. I don’t recall who originally put it together.