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Today’s Cartoon News Roundup

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Featuring a Peter Brookes print and President Trump; Harry Harrison and The Year of the Snake; Steve Hill and the Dallas Stars; Martha Rosenberg on Food, Clothes, Men, Gas and Other Problems; and Eli Valley as The World’s Most Dangerous Comic Artist.

President Trump Presented With a Framed Peter Brookes Cartoon

Former hostage Eli Sharabi presented US President Donald Trump with a framed cartoon which featured Holocaust survivors next to released hostages during his visit on Wednesday.

Created by political cartoonist Peter Brookes at The Times, the cartoon was first published in the newspaper on February 10, two days after the hostages depicted were released.

The cartoon read “Never Again” above the Holocaust survivors, and “Again” above the hostages, which included Sharabi, Or Levy and Ohad Ben Ami, who were released together. 

Full story at The Jerusalem Post.

Peter Brookes prints, including the “Never Again. Again.” cartoon, are available from The Times. As seen at that Times page Trump is proudly displaying a print from a cartoonist who clearly is not a fan of the President.

As long as we are overseas…

Harry Harrison’s Year of the Snake

Harry Harrison’s set of eight original watercolour and ink works takes cheeky digs at Hong Kong culture and politics.

Harry Harrison – Year of the Snake

The South China Morning Post reports on their cartoonist Harry Harrison and a set of his cartoons.

Over the past few months, the state of the economy has been top of mind for many, including Harry Harrison, the Post’s long-time political cartoonist.

That is why it is the key issue addressed in his latest collection of humorous Lunar New Year illustrations, which is titled “2025 … S-S-Snakes Alive!” as a nod to this year’s Chinese zodiac animal.

For Harrison, who has been drawing cartoons for the Post since 2001, the Year of the Snake is set to be full of surprises, which is why many of his witty illustrations this year reflect a general sense of uncertainty.

“Everyone’s hoping the Year of the Snake is going to be good, but snakes are unpredictable and can be dangerous. It might bite you. That’s the general feeling I get from the economy and also a lot of the geopolitics as well,” he says.

Closer to home, if your home is U.S…

Spits and Suds with Sports Editorial Cartoonist Steve Hill

You see his Dallas Stars Cartoons on social media where he is known as Sportstoons. Sports Editorial Cartoonist Steve Hill drops by to talk about drawing various Dallas Stars players with host Gavin Spittle. Steve talks about his love of hockey and where his love of the Stars came from. Which players he loves to draw the most. The art of not just the cartoon but the subject matter that needs to go along with it…

Steve Hill Dallas Stars cartoons
Steve Hill Dallas Stars cartoons

Sports cartoonist Steve Hill sits for a 20 minute audio interview concentrating on his Dallas Stars NHL team cartoons. As seen on his Sportstoon Substack Steve does more than the Dallas Stars including political cartoons, sometimes combining sports and politics, and his Instagram feed also shows more.

Food, Clothes, Men, Gas and Other Problems

I began writing for underground newspapers in New Orleans, then did a stint as an advertising copywriter – which got me so mad at corporate spin that I returned to underground reporting. A few years ago I experienced writers block (nature’s own rejection slip, as they say) so I began cartooning, a skill that uses the right rather than the left hemisphere of the brain.

Martha Rosenberg book
Martha Rosenberg cartoon

Journalist/cartoonist Martha Rosenberg sits down with Hugh Iglarsh of CounterPunch for an email interview.

In the chapter about telling a joke, I note that you can’t tell a “dumb blonde” joke even if you are a blonde, as I am. In Mad Magazine days, people used to say, “That’s not funny; it’s sick.” Today the meme is more like, “That’s not funny; I’m offended.”

Food, Clothes, Men, Gas, and Other Problems is available at Amazon.

The World’s Most Dangerous Comic Artist

Eli Valley was a dangerous artist long before Donald Trump’s Christian nationalists took power, openly aspiring to a near-future apocalypse in Israel—or rather, post-Israel, minus Jews who decline to convert. In the introduction to this newest work, Valley says of his already famously (or notoriously) satirical work that his critics hate him most for calling upon memory. Memory that “has come alive, history is both metaphor and alarm, and past trauma [that] has the power to illuminate and help mobilize against our current catastrophe”

Eli Valley

Paul Buhle and Raymond Tyler for CounterPunch (again) reviews radical cartoonist Eli Valley’s newest book Museum of Degenerates: Portraits of the American Grotesque.

Valley has long been hated for his attacks on the rising U.S. Right, but never so much as now. Assaulted as a Nazi by “Zionists who had never encountered a Yiddish cartoon” of the kind that ridiculed the Jewish rich and foolish, and described by Seth Mandel as “everyone’s favorite Nazi cartoonist,” Valley yielded not one inch of ground…

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  1. Trump looks so angry in that photo. His roids must be flaring up again.

  2. Eli Valley’s antisemitism is notorious. He’s up there with Torqumada (whose grandparents were Jewish) as among the most talented of the worst we in the tribe can produce.

    Don’t believe me? Are you thinking “UG! ol’ Eric’s just accusing someone on the left of antisemitism yet again!?” Go here: (https://www.amazon.com/Diaspora-Boy-Comics-Crisis-America/dp/B073S47DZ6) download the sample page on the right, and READ THE DAMN THING! You will notice the extreme loathing of every single American Jew dripping from every line and penstroke.

    1. I did what you suggested. The anti-semitism he parodies is Zionist Jewish disgust toward non-Zionist Jews, which he references with direct quotes from Zionist writers. He’s a Jewish artist calling out Jews who are using anti-Semitic tropes to vilify other Jews they disagree with.

      1. You have no idea what Zionism is, do you?

      2. I am specifically talking about the emergence of Zionism.
        Like the Jim Crow south? There was no vote to deprive, intermarriage was forbidden in all religions, and the only public places were religious. Restricted from certain trades and institutions? So was everybody else! Before the American and French Revolutions, there was simply no such thing as equality among citizens. Everyone’s, from the peasants’ to the king’s, duties were defined by their respective social group. After Napoleon (the assimilationist) was gone and the old oligarchs returned, they tried to restore the old heierarchies, and when that didn’t work, create new ones (with them on top, of course) based on secular ideas like nationalism and “scientific” ones like racism and antisemitisn. It was in this milieu that some secular Jews started their own nationalism, Zionism.
        For further reading, Salo Baron’s Ghetto and Emancipation
        https://ia904602.us.archive.org/25/items/ghettoemancipati00baro/ghettoemancipati00baro.pdf

      3. אני לא יודע למה התשובות בלי סדר בטלפון שלי.
        התכלית שלי היה לבאר מצב העולם לעומת ״נשיניליסם״ במאת התשע עשרי אשר בו נולד ציונות (ולא, לדוגמא, בימי שבתי צבי)
        האם אתה קראת את הלינק שלי? יש קצת גוזמא, אבל יש לה אמת.
        אני קראתי הלינק שלך. הוא ״שפיל״ על מחשבות הציונים הראשונים על היהודים הדתיים בזמניהם. ממה שקראתי, הוא נראה כנטורי קרתא-ניק.
        אני מודה לל שלא טות לגלות מחלקות ישראל כזה ברבים, על כן כתבתי זה בעברית.
        נא לסיים ההבל הזה. סליחה על מה שהכעסתי אותך.
        פורים שמח!
        Happy Purim!

        {D.D.Degg}What iTranslate informs me the above says:
        I don’t know why the answers without order on my phone.
        My purpose was to well the world’s status compared to “Ninilism” in the nineteenth century where Zionism was born (and not, for example, during the days of Zvi’s)
        Did you read my link? There’s a little overdue, but she has truth.
        I read your link. He “spoil” on the first Zionist thoughts on religious Jews in their time. From what I read, he looks like Karta-Nick Holidays.
        I thank God not to discover such Israeli departments in many, so I wrote this in Hebrew.
        Please finish this cord. Sorry for what I angry you.
        Happy Purim!

    2. No. He’s visually calling out Jews (95% of Jews consider themselves zionist, BTW) for being Nazis in the in the cartoon shown in the post and attacks ALL Jews as vile in the page on the link.

      Please note that there are no references on either page.

      1. The fall-out of the Napoleonic wars led to the emergence of Nationalism (the belief that a state should bevcomprised solely of an individual nation: people with common descent, geography, language, history, and culture) in European countries. This lead to antisemitism, the belief that Jews threatened the integrity of the nation-state. In response emerged Zionism, Jewish nationalism; like the antisemites, they saw the traditional Jewish community as degenerate, but rather than believing the Jews should be killed for that, they said the problems would go away once the Jews had their own nation-state.

      2. What antisemites said was an innate racial characteristic, the early Zionists said was a result of the diaspora condition of the traditional Jewish community

      3. Boy are you WRONG!!!!! Jews were treated like Blacks were in 1880s Mississippi or the Belgian Congo or Apartheid South Africa before Napoleon.
        https://www.ushmm.org/collections/the-museums-collections/collections-highlights/500-years-of-antisemitic-propaganda

        This was both in Europe and Islamic Asia.

        Boney was the first in France to treat them with the least bit of respect.

        Being Jewish was a CRIME in many places. Discrimination against Jews was everywhere. Shabbtai Svi was in 1666.

      4. To Solomon J. Behala,

        It was actually WORSE than the Jim Crow South for Jews. Sure it was bad for everyone. After all the equivalent of the upper middle class was living in what would be now considered poverty, but the governments at the time criminalized Jews and Judaism. ALL of THEM.

        Nowhere were Jews thriving before Napoleon. The Governments of all nations were antisemitic. Jeez! Remember Shabbtai Svi.

  3. Brookes’s cartoon uses deft juxtaposition to expose the sad and harsh reality of ongoing antisemitism…Pulitzer Prize-worthy! What an honor to have it presented in such a manner to our Peacemaker President.

    1. You know he’s not going to give you a job, right?

  4. I don’t think there’s a link to the actual Valley book review, but just the book.

    1. there is now. thanks

  5. Okay, so much for subtlety. My (admittedly lousy) Hebrew comment reads
    “I don’t know why replies are out of order on my phone.
    My goal had been to give international context of ninetenth-century nationalism that led to Zionism (and not, say, Shabbesai Tzvi).
    Did you read my linked article? It is a little exaggerated, but contains truth.
    I read your link. It is a “shpiel” on early Zionists’ attitudes towards their religious contemporaries. He actually sounds like a member of the Neturei Karta.
    I agree with you that these sort of internal Jewish divides should not be aired publicly, which is why I wrote in Hebrew.
    Let’s end this fruitless discussion. I’m sorry for upsetting you.
    Happy Purim.”
    The awkward syntax comes from my initial translation into Hebrew off the top of my head, and then translating that back into English.
    And thank-you for that hilarious translation.

  6. NO problemo. Satire is a form of non-violent violence and the best of it is nasty as hell. If you compare Valley’s stuff with Steve Hill’s and Martha Rosenberg’s you can see the difference between social commentary and pure bile.

    Hill shows fine draftsmanship and mild criticism, while Rosenberg’s is just illustrative. There is nothing wrong with either of those; the problem is where the line is. Larry Feign’s THE WORLD OF LILLY WONG was rather mild but the government of China went after him like a ton of bricks. I’m not sure what the PRC thinks of Harry Harrison…

    It is a pickle. Thanks.

  7. I’m surprised that trump didn’t have Peter Brookes arrested, like Mahmoud Khalil. … One (of many) thing(s) that amaze(s) me is that the trumpists call Knalil “antisemitic.” He apparently IS semitic (“peoples who speak Semitic languages, especially Hebrew and Arabic.”).

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