In his Comics Riffs blog for the Washington Post, Michael Cavna writes about the dilemas that are facing the nation’s political cartoonists in light of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab’s failed attempt to blow up a plane about Detroit on Christmas Day: Terrorism generally isn’t very funny, most of them are on holiday vacations anyway and yet there is the irrisitable pull of underpants. Well worth a read and keeping in mind in the coming days, as cartoonists return to their drawing desks and the nation’s other various humorists get back to work and try to find ways to joke about something that’s hard to joke about.

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