Cartoon Saturday

Thanksgiving is over, and we're into the home stretch for Christmas, although you wouldn't know it from the news ...

Police in Austin, Texas, killed a man who fired more than 100 shots at a federal courthouse and a Mexican consulate, which he also apparently attempted to set afire; the University of Massachusetts Amherst, alma mater of comedian Bill Cosby, has cut all ties with Cosby as a result of allegations of sexual assault and rape made by at least 15 women; Pope Francis, during a rare papal visit to largely-Muslim Turkey, called for religious tolerance and dialogue to counter extremism in the Middle East*; the town of Ferguson, Missouri, exploded in violence after a grand jury declined to indict a white police officer who shot an unarmed black teenager in August; and at least 35 people were killed and 150 injured in an attack on a mosque in northern Nigeria.

At least you can be thankful for the cartoons, if nothing else ...

This week, our theme cartoons look at letters, numbers, and other symbols.

Even punctuation marks need to stay in good shape ...

Getting cursive? ...

Nice serifs! ...

Yes, sometimes people can be very mean ...

And it's important to hang out with the right people ...

Well, I guess it all evens out ...

Turning to other topics of cartoonology, I'd like to see a few of these ...

Yes, there is a limited case to be made ...

I have a physical exam scheduled for this week. I think this is a likely scenario ...

And finally, it's interesting how perspectives change through the years ...

So there you have it ... our last Cartoon Saturday for the month of November. I hope you all had a good Thanksgiving and stayed out of the stores on Black Friday. Here's some free advice: stay out of the stores on all weekends between now and Christmas. You'll thank me.

Have a good day. Come back tomorrow for Poetry Sunday.

Bilbo

* Good luck with that.