Simple pleasures

Of all the cartoonist’s tools, tactile (pencils, erasers, brushes, erasers, crayons, rounded scissors, more erasers) and cerebral (sarcasm, irony, humor, utter frustration), none are so elusive as sheer, unadorned simplicity. John Branch’s Olympic brass knuckles pack a punch with no punch line. Rex Babin fired off just a couple of explosively loaded words at the high-flying former first lady. And Tom Toles nicely sewed up the arrogance of the outgoing administration while simultaneously reiterating the point of this column.

-- Joel Pett