Aaand... Happy 2026!

Counting down... (reprise) [Happy #NewYearsEve, everyone!] #NewYear2026 klaustoon.wordpress.com/2025/12/31/c... [Background image: “Carparkville-by-the-Sea”, from my cartoon for Arquine #112: Beaches (Summer 2025)]

Clap, clap, clap

How I am walking out of 2025

I remember a night in Boston, waiting side-by-side with a very impacient Jon Malkovich for our respective luggage to turn up at Logan airport.

You're damn right Norman Rockwell was antifa.

"fear of an educated proletariat+ resistance to secular, integrated public schooling have been the central motive for defunding public education... public education, the closest thing to a lasting success amid the broader failure of Reconstruction, is in danger." www.chronicle.com/article/the-...

-Creo que eres cleptómana. -Eso son cosas tuyas. -Por eso lo digo.

-¿La asociación del rifle? -Aquí es. -Apúnteme.

A really interesting conversation. @katewagner.wehwalt.net has more than a bird's eye view of the desecration of the White House. She's deeply knowledgeable & reflective about trends in architecture & the politics involved. The ballroom phenomenon is emblematic of wider forces.

Brigitte Bardot 1934 -2025. Icône des années 50-70, elle est décédé ce 28 décembre à l’âge de 91 ans. Brigitte Bardot lisant la bande dessinée franco-belge LUCKY LUKE. Vers 1964. #BB #brigittebardot

Magnificent Franquin, as usual.

La guirlande clignotante. #Franquin

We see what you did there, Pluribus.

Courses de Noël. 🎄 #Noël

2025

Make a Bond film casual Sometimes say some time again.

Beautiful tribute by Scorsese:

Ian McQue @ianmcque.bsky.social

And here's the first, and merrier iteration from 5 years ago: Merry Sterrett Christmas #architecture #cartoons #klaussketches #MerryChristmas klaustoon.wordpress.com/2020/12/25/m...

Merry Christmas, everyone! Merry Sterrett Christmas (II)! [Frank Gehry, in Memorian] klaustoon.wordpress.com/2025/12/25/m...

Current mood.

vs. André Franquin (1924-1997): Doodles.

La película número 1 de cuando tenias 10 años es como va a ir tu 2026...

One of my all-time favorite clips of Rob Reiner, from his Friars Club Roast in 2000, as he reads aloud Roger Ebert's infamous scathing review of his movie North. The man had an amazing sense of humor about himself. RIP.

And in today's entry on the ongoing series 'How to be a sorry excuse for a human being'... [RIP legendary Rob Reiner, by the way]

New monsterus2 drawings up on my free patreon post. follow the link below through the wardrobe if you want to see Soph Franz’s incredible Satyr #drawing #inkonpaper #chroniclesofnarnia #mistertumnus : www.patreon.com/posts/faun-s...

Dick Van Dyke (who turned 100 today) and Mary Tyler Moore, back in the day….

This is insane.

Blanche is pretty amazing. And Dorothy's up there, too.

I can't unsee this:

Happy #BrutalWednesday (Why not?) As an architecture historian, let me recover this article on this building that I love: Alastair Best: 'Belfast united' (Design Journal #278, Feb 1972; 30-35) || Francis Pym: Ulster Museum Extension, Belfast, 1964-72 (V) #brutalist #architecture

Yes YES

I can't stop thinking about the purported drug smugglers being murdered by the US military. The punishment for drug offenses isn't the death penalty. This is just bloodlust and men in suits playing with lives they don't care about. It's truly grotesque and gravely compromises this country.

"Eighty-three percent of heavy AI users couldn’t recall key points from what they’d “written,” compared to only 10 percent of those who composed unaided. Students aren’t just learning less; their brains are learning NOT to learn." www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...

Not one, but two waterfalls: 'Tintin au Congo' (v.o. 1930-1931), and 'Le Temple du Soleil' (1946-48).

#comics, #architecture, & the (Japanese) #city: Some morte crazy-ass dream sequences in R.Ueshiba's 'Nazo no Kanojo Ekkusu' (Mysterious Girlfriend X, 2004/ 2006-2014) #mangapolis

#comics, #architecture, & the (Japanese) #city: Impressive Dream city sequence in R.Ueshiba's 'Nazo no Kanojo Ekkusu' (Mysterious Girlfriend X, 2004/ 2006-2014) #mangapolis

"...Because I'm your father and I tell you so!"

And, in our section 'One sociopath a day', let me itroduce you today to...

This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥

Mark Strong is great in this.

Drop some CARTOONS.