Either this week or next week, I plan to write a column about the issue of jealousy. Or envy. The two are not the same, obviously, but not everyone knows that. The reason I bring this up, the reason I’ve been thinking about it, is that I have mentioned the jobs and awards that certain cartoonists have earned in conjunction with my criticism of their work. Am I jealous of them? Not of their careers, certainly not of their work, but I do think it’s relevant to point out when people get praise that they don’t deserve at the same time that others who do better work are ignored. It shows that the system isn’t working. In the meantime, I thought I would give some critiques of cartoons that came out over the last day or two.

Here my complaint is about the format. This sort of metaphor using big block letters is so out of date, it’s hard to imagine that anybody under the age of 75 would be moved by it.


