graphic: ©2011 Melissa Kelley

The current public hue and cry over stopping the “vitriol” and “eliminationist rhetoric” seems to me like shutting the barn door after the horses are already out.  Isn’t it possible that “eliminationist rh/… Read full post »

I inadvertently put off my New Year celebration until now.  I even had a huge quantity of champagne last night, and stayed up past midnight…something I didn’t do at the actual start of 2009.  Wasn’t interested.

It occurred to me only this morning, when I jumped out… Read full post »

LIVE-BLOGGING MESSIAH (A report from stage right)

12/23/08 

7:38 p.m. It’s twenty below or something outside and I’m sitting on a windowsill in Room G on the fourth floor of Carnegie Hall, with my feet on the… Read full post »

Founding Brothers
Joseph J. Ellis

[I wrote this review for my personal blog, wherein I goad myself into accomplishing things other than acquiring online game tokens, so it's a bit breezy.  However, since I seem to have a case of cartoonist's block, and I don't want to drop out of si… Read full post »

I moved to New York ten years ago with my youngest daughter A.C., who was then fifteen, thinking if we could make it here, we could make it anywhere. Though we come from a long line of diffident Southern Belles, we bravely put on the armor of enterprise and plunged… Read full post »

[Personal note: I sure missed cartooning during the denouement of the election.  I'm thinking about mounting a retrospective including the cartoons I thought of but didn't get to do.  (Unless everyone's too sick of it.) To explain: hand surgery went very well, but then my hand reac… Read full post »

Yeah, I know this one's overworked, but I and my (recovering) right hand were feeling too blah to edit it down.  (Like Groucho Marx who wrote:  "Sorry this letter is so long, but I didn't have time to make it shorter.")

 UPDATE:  I modified the original image--… Read full post »

(Surgery Update:  I must have the best group of well-wishers known to mankind.  Not two weeks out of surgery, and I think my hand is already better than it was before.   Last time I couldn't even get out of bed for two weeks from the pain, and had a… Read full post »

One more day to draw, and then my right hand will be shut down for renovations.  It really ticks me off to miss cartooning the rest of the campaign season--such ripe, low-hanging fruit!  Read full post »

Okay, not that anybody cares, but I had a really hard day.  I worked my butt off all day at my day job and couldn't get around to drawing until 7:30 pm, and then I couldn't get it to look right, because I was in too much of… Read full post »

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