Cartoon Saturday

If I put up a 22-foot gold statue of me in my front yard, would you worship it?

Der Furor responded to a reporter's question about how he takes Americans' economic worries into account as he pursues his war with Iran by saying, “I don’t think about Americans’ financial situations, I don’t think about anybody. I think about one thing—we cannot let Iran have a nuclear weapon;” in Japan, a company that manufactures the "Monster Wolf" - an animatronic scarecrow with flashing red eyes that howls and growls menacingly to scare away wild animals - is swamped with orders from persons afraid of bear attacks; CIA Director John Ratcliffe met with Cuban officials during a high-level visit to the beleaguered island; the latest attempt to invoke a war powers resolution to rein in Der Furor's war against Iran failed by a vote of 50-49 when Pennsylvania Democrat John Fetterman, a staunch supporter of the war, once again broke with his party and voted with Republicans; and in (where else?) Florida, a website featuring local news has closed down after its "local journalists" were exposed as AI-generated figures who republished content stolen from other sites, and whose Editor-in-Chief is not a real person.

This week, we take a cartoon look into the world of books and literature.

One upmanship ...

And if that doesn't work, try a sequel ...

She took a wrong turn coming out of the rabbit hole ...

When the apothecary has second thoughts ...

I wonder what books they were reading ...

That's just what they want you to think ...

I think her research may have been a little thin ...

She probably would have. And the book would have been more gripping ...

Do cockroaches really dream?

They subcontract to great Neptune's oceans ...

And that's it for this week's collection of cartoons - I hope it helped get your weekend off to a good start, and encouraged you to do some reading instead of sinking into your screens.

Have a good day and a great weekend. More thoughts tomorrow, when Musical Sunday serves up a beautiful and thought-provoking tune from the late Nanci Griffith. See you then.

Bilbo