In case you missed it, the world has shifted, and, as Eliot predicted, not with a bang, but a whimper. A bang you would have noticed, and perhaps resisted. A whimper sneaks up, and yet, once it is in place, you wonder how you could have missed it before. Or perhaps you don’t, which is […]
Dr. Bruce MacKinnon Editorial cartoonist Bruce MacKinnon joins a small group in the cartooning community who can legitimately put the honorific “Dr.” before his name. From St. Francis Xavier University and Education News Canada: St. Francis Xavier University graduated nearly 300 students during its Fall Convocation 2025 today. Bruce MacKinnon, one of Canada’s foremost editorial […]
An expression emerged during Watergate that it wasn’t the crime but the cover-up that doomed Nixon. It mostly came from his defenders, who envisioned a wall between the burglary at the Watergate and everything that followed, with an innocent president drawn into the cover-up of a crime he hadn’t known was happening. Tapes and testimony […]
I don’t know that stupidity always wins, but I do know it has the inside track. The fad of biting into detergent pods passed by quickly, but it did happen and was quite a tribute to peer pressure and general idiocy. OTOH, looking back on my own misspent youth, I don’t picture 10 kids standing […]
It’s that time of the year again, Thanksgiving is over and all of your Christmas/Hanukah shopping is done, the only thing left to do, other than drawings your daily editorial cartoons, is to go through your 2025 archives and decide which ones should be sent for consideration to the various award committees. Here is a […]
In case you missed it, and particularly if you didn’t, FIFA has capitalized on the clear path to success in the United States. On the eve of the World Cup tournament, they guaranteed something or other by creating a gaudy, ridiculous “Peace Prize” and awarding it to Dear Leader, whose country will be co-hosting the […]
Editorial cartoonist, sculptor, and painter Ken Crook has passed away. Kenneth Erle (Ken) Crook July 13, 1929 – November 30, 2025 Carl MacGowan at Newsday is reporting the death of their former editorial cartoonist Ken Crook (or here): Kenneth Crook, who drew cartoons for Newsday for more than a decade before leaving in 1970 to pursue […]
Editorial cartoonist Walt Handelsman has announced through his newspaper that he will retire at the end of this year after a nearly forty-five year career. From Kieth Spera at The Times-Picayune: Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist Walt Handelsman is putting away his pen and ink after decades of delighting Louisiana with his alternately humorous and poignant […]
It was a pleasant surprise to see Signalgate back in the news yesterday. I thought it was gone and forgotten, but it turns out somebody had been looking into it all this time and now there is a report saying that what everybody knew happened happened. Rowe combines it with the ongoing, not-to-be-forgotten Epstein saga. […]
The Museum of Australian Democracy has named Matt Golding its 2025 Political Cartoonist of the Year. MoAD’s announcement states: Golding was clear winner in the voting for this year’s award. A master of the pocket cartoon, in 2025 he created work that was funny, poignant and constantly inventive. His cartoons covered the big themes of […]
This may seem a trivial place to start, but stick with me. Tariffs are not hard to understand. When a country wants to discourage people from buying goods from another country, they can require a tariff, so that the person who is importing the product has to add an additional cost to the foreign product, […]
A couple recent hour long conversations featuring editorial cartoonists talking to each other. First up is a wonderful discussion between Kevin KAL Kallaugher and David Horsey about the history of editorial cartooning and the changes over their almost 50 years each in the profession. The dialogue is available at David Horsey’s Substack. Then we have […]
The short answer to the headline question is: Nothing. Though readers of The San Diego Union-Tribune may have thought otherwise. Rick Griffin of the Times of San Diego catches up with former Union-Tribune cartoonist Steve Breen: It was Saturday, Oct. 18 of this year when The San Diego Union-Tribune editorial pages included an editor’s note […]
For those keeping track, Mamdani won’t be mayor of NYC for another month, so it’s a little early to be panicking over what he might do if he becomes the first candidate in recorded history to accomplish everything he promised. Though I say that as someone who lives in a small (14,300) city with free […]
Older people shouldn’t fret over the ACA, since they’ve got Medicare, but don’t put those paddles down yet. I got an email October 24 from Social Security suggesting I log on and see my new rates, so I logged on and was told they didn’t have them yet. Then, on the 31st, they announced that […]