Cartoon Saturday

Welcome to the first Cartoon Saturday of May, not like you need it.

The U.S. and Ukraine signed an agreement granting American access to Ukraine’s vast mineral resources, a move Ukraine hopes will convince Der Furor to continue American military and economic assistance to fight Russia's ongoing invasion; Canada elected a liberal government in national elections this week, a move seen as a reaction to Der Furor's economic and political attacks on Canada; a group of detainees at an immigration detention facility in Texas, afraid of deportation to a notorious prison in El Salvador, formed an SOS message that was captured by a Reuters drone; the US economy shrank by 0.3% in the first quarter of the year, a decrease promptly blamed by Der Furor on former President Biden; a new proposal by House Republicans would levy a series of new fees on legal immigrants to pay for Der Furor's immigration enforcement actions; and in Minnesota, the state Supreme Court has overturned the 2022 indecent exposure conviction of a woman accused of walking topless in a local parking lot, evidently ruling that it was not a righteous ... uh ... bust.

This week, because pretty much all I want to do any more is take the cushions off the couch, build a book fort, and spend the day hidden in it, reading, I thought some cartoons about books and reading would be fun. Certainly more fun than watching the news every day and asking "He did what??."

Sounds about right ...

He's riding the wave ...

I'd be careful with my opinions if I were you ...

It's true ...

"Literary selfies!!" I love it! ...

He needed a better agent ...

Medieval paywall technology ...

I can relate to this guy ...

There's a genre for everybody ...

Not everyone can make a noir entrance ...

And that concludes the first Cartoon Saturday of the new month - I hope it helped you get over the stresses and strains of the past week.

Have a good day and a great weekend, and come back tomorrow for Musical Sunday, when we'll dance to the end of love with Leonard Cohen. More thoughts then.

Bilbo