We sure do, and on both sides. Those who think we are in crisis need to settle down and come up with a plan. Running around screaming isn’t a plan, nor is hurling insults. Mass protests and voter registration drives are plans. Reclaim the flag. Celebrate the intentions. If someone quotes Stephen Decatur’s “My country, […]
As I’m writing this, the House is in an all-night session, not so much debating Trump’s major bill as seeing which side can hold on longest. By time you read it, we may know the answer. But what we already know is that there is a cult of personality and an atmosphere of fear governing […]
The Association of American Editorial Cartoonists (AAEC) has opened the window for submissions to compete for The 2025 Rex Babin Memorial Award for Excellence in Local Cartooning. The award recognizes editorial cartoons that focuses on state and local issues, particularly “champion[ing] those cartoonists who work for small and local newspapers.” From the AAEC: The Rex […]
note: this story has been updated to include a KAL interview with the Baltimore Brew After 31 years (1988-2006, 2012-2025) Kevin (KAL) Kallaugher has been let go by The Baltimore Sun. From KAL: I am disappointed to announce that after 31 years of award-winning cartoons in The Baltimore Sun, I was abruptly dismissed from the […]
I’ll confess to having paid more attention to the wretched excess in Venice than it deserved, which is any. But, unlike the couple in Milbrath’s cartoon, I did have my chair swung around the other direction, and I have also been paying attention to the wretched excess being foisted upon us all in Washington. According […]
I’ve been having a debate with myself over when you say a person is misinformed and when you call them a deliberate liar. It’s a debate the entire nation has been sucked into. The third possible category is “raving looney,” however, and if you’d like a fairly detailed justification for that one, I strongly recommend […]
Vermont cartoonist and writer Jeff Danziger has been scoffing at the powerful and skewering politicians for half a century. His cartoons have been syndicated in newspapers around the world, and he’s been nominated twice for a Pulitzer Prize. He still draws every day using a blue pencil and churns out about 300 cartoons a year, […]
Today is the Big Day — the start of three Big Days — if you think the Bezos/Sanchez wedding is the event of the season. For my part, I’m mystified by the whole thing, though, unlike Le Lievre, I wouldn’t imply that the entire $50 million should have been spent on the homeless instead. I’d […]
Following up on the obscenity trial of Zehra Ömeroğlu in Turkey comes great news: After five long years of proceedings, punctuated by postponements, the Istanbul Court of First Instance finally ruled in favor of acquittal on Thursday, June 26. The Turkish cartoonist was tried for “obscenity” for a cartoon published in LeMan magazine in 2020 […]
I wish Kikkert hadn’t bothered adding a caption to this, since its meaning is clear, but I like the thought of helpless deportees being dumped off on a random desert island, because some of the other places we’re dumping them off are just as unable to sustain the people already there and every bit as […]
Landmark AI Copyright Win – Fair Use Anthropic has scored a major victory in an ongoing legal battle over artificial intelligence models and copyright, one that may reverberate across the dozens of other AI copyright lawsuits winding through the legal system in the United States. A court has determined that it was legal for Anthropic […]
People have noted that Dear Leader campaigned on a promise of no new wars and of ending the war in Ukraine his first day in office, and yet somehow the war in Ukraine drags on and we appear to have a new war in Iran. Also the price of eggs remains high and groceries in […]
So checking the Tribune Content Agency (TCA) comics page I noticed a “new” feature had appeared. Actually a comic that has been around for 14 years but new to TCA – Reply All by Donna A. Lewis. Last year when the Washington Post Writers Group (WPWG) dropped comics from the agenda Donna took her daily […]
The Association of American Editorial Cartoonists (AAEC) has set up hotel booking and registration for their 2025 Convention being held at Bethseda Maryland from September 11th through the 14th. The lineups for workshops, panels, and events are still in the early stages for both conventions. From the AAEC: Our confab starts Thursday, September 11, with […]
Rowe gets a laugh out of Dear Leader’s attack on Iran despite feeling it represents the death of the UN Charter, because there’s absurdity in the arrogance and chaos in the messaging. One of the factors in our liberation of Kuwait was that GHWB had obtained cooperation from a wide array of allies, and then […]