Graeme MacKay on The State of The Canary in the Coal Mine (Editorial Cartoonists)
The mission of editorial cartoons — afflicting the comfortable and comforting the afflicted — has been compromised. In recent years,…
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CSotD: Unclear on the Concept
Mr. Boffo often uses the term “unclear on the concept” in portraying a character who genuinely just doesn’t get it….
An Afternoon with Pat Oliphant
Pat Oliphant lost his eyesight a few years ago, but his blue-green eyes still search my face when I sit…
CSotD: Prattle Lines Being Drawn
Jen Sorensen skips the clever rhetoric and metaphors and gets right to the point: Tuesday is going to tell the…
About Those Non-Endorsing Newspapers
I was going to let Mike Peterson handle all this foofarah over newspapers not endorsing Presidential candidates, but I’ve got…
CSotD: Bringing It Home
Jack Ohman (Tribune) offers a combination of the mundane and the insightful. It seems 90% of the conversation about Trump’s…
CSotD: Damage Control
Jack Ohman (Tribune) had this cartoon up before Jeff Bezos broke a pair of rules: Bezos has written a too-long…
CSotD: Catching Up
How on earth did we get here? Robert Ariail notes the positive messages of past presidents, contrasting them with Trump’s…
CSotD: Darkness at News
There have been a number of cartoons responding to Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos having spiked an endorsement for Kamala…
Charles Fredrick – RIP
Cartoonist Charles Fredrick has passed away. Charles Wright Fredrick November 3, 1942 – October 4, 2024 From the obituary: Charles…
CSotD: Knaves, Fools & the Servant of Two Masters
We’ll get to knaves and fools in a minute, but first a salute to unintentional genius, as The Brilliant Mind…
Cartoonists on a Scroll
Featuring Bianca Xunise, Chip Beck, Alan Hardman, Eli Valley, Patrick McDonnell, Herblock, Larry Todd, Matt Wuerker, Ann Telnaes, Michael Ramirez,…
CSotD: The Fourth Estate and the Fifth Column
I don’t know the lead time for Prickly City (AMS), but it’s been a very long time since Harris began…
CSotD: Tension and Contention
Brace yourself, Willie. Here comes a flood, and it’s not just special sauce. Granted, I posted a David Rowe version…
Steven Lait – From Editoons to Costco
Former editorial cartoonist Steven Lait got a couple paragraphs in a recent New York Times article about The Costco Connection,…