Who Drew It Funniest? We Laugh at the Very Thought

Perhaps because political cartoons typically must traffic in real-world issues and should offer a true opinion, they don't as frequently make me laugh aloud. And by laugh aloud, I mean that burst of honest guffaw that leaves your body before you have a chance to edit your reaction.

These four cartoons, however, literally made me emit a chuckle audible to at least several quizzical cubicle-mates. It's the most absurdly subjective of reactions, but I offer these Final Four up, in the spirit that some of you will chortle, too..

(STEVE BREEN / San Diego Union-Tribune) Enlarge Comic

"CAM" CARDOW / Ottawa Citizen Enlarge Comic

(ROB ROGERS / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette ) Enlarge Comic

(GARRY TRUDEAU / Universal Press Syndicate) Enlarge Comic

TODAY'S FUNNIES...

Could any Post comic strip be more deeply satisfying today than "Mark Trail"? At last, the karmic showdown we wanted to see: An unarmed Ken the Broken Man vs. the Buck That Won't Stop Here. Comic Riffs invites you to guess: Just what will happen Tuesday? And will a humbled Ken see the light, or--fatally wounded--see The Light?

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Perhaps the pet deer itself become tragically ensnared in Ken's Man-Suit of Gore-Tex, Kevlar and Silent Shame? And what, exactly, are Mark and Ken's wife feeling before the Gore-Tex gets gored? The floor is now yours.