Cartoons Sunday!

More than a dozen political potshots. Plus: Ray Charles, Brian Eno and John Cale fall into June Carter's ring of fire.

Greg Mitchell is the author of more than a dozen books and now writer/director of three award-winning films aired via PBS, including “Atomic Cover-up” and “Memorial Day Massacre” which are still up at PBS.org. Before all that, he was a longtime editor of the legendary Crawdaddy. You can still subscribe to this newsletter for free.

When I was growing up, my father and others would refer to the multi-page color section of “comics” that wrapped around the Sunday newspaper (remember them?) as the “funny papers” or just “the Sunday funnies.” Well, the selection below may not be rib-ticklers but it is Sunday and they are cartoons. And unlike those newspapers, my subscriptions are still free, so please do.

But first, we watched the new doc film.”June,” on June Carter Cash, via Showtime/Paramount+. It certainly reveals her longtime musical (and even screen work) long before she met Johnny Cash, and then more or less gave it up while saving him from not one but two serious drug spirals. Interviews with Emmylou, Willie, and many others. Also provided a needed reminder that June herself co-wrote one of the most popular and most covered songs of the day (from Dylan and Springsteen to Blondie and Olivia Newton John). Here are two of the greater if wildly different versions from Brother Ray Charles and then Brian Eno with John Cale singing.

Sunday Cartooning

A takeoff on ending to one of greatest movies, Kurosawa’s “Ran”?

Herrrrre’s Donny!