CSotD: Commentary in Context
Humor specifically and cartoon commentary in general require context. The context of Paul Fell‘s cartoon is immediately clear to anyone…
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Odds & Ends
The “best” of The New Yorker and Roll Call and Editorial Cartoons (Eppys) and a failure. If the algorithm is…
CSotD: Bellyrubs for Bullies
Clay Bennett (CTFP)‘s cartoon introduces today’s theme by happenstance, because we all know that Ukraine needs our continued help, and…
Signe Wilkinson Gets AI Profile? – update
Signe Wilkinson is widely acclaimed and celebrated for her remarkable contributions as an editorial cartoonist at The Inquirer and the…
CSotD: And now the sports …
The best way to start today is with Paul Fell’s cartoon, which should please people who dislike sports. You don’t…
CSotD: Strange Choices
We’ll lead off with a strange choice of little current relevance, just to kind of ease into the grimmer ones….
John Yardley-Jones – RIP
Editorial cartoonist John Yardley-Jones has passed away. John William Yardley-Jones May 1, 1930 – December 6, 2023 From The Edmonton…
CSotD: Weekend Update
Today will be a combination of the absurd and the frightening, so we’ll start somewhere in the middle with Graeme…
Editoonist Evans Responds to Upset Readers
Peter Evans has been contributing editorial cartoons to The Islander News of Key Biscayne for nearly 30 years. During that…
CSotD: Juxtapalooza!
Matt Davies Clay Jones By now you’ve heard that Time magazine has named Taylor Swift its Person of the Year,…
Wayback Whensday: Scrappy, Seuss, Gordo
Harry McCracken in Scrappyland Preeminent Scrappy historian Harry McCracken returns, after a two year absence, to present a print off-shoot…
U.K. Political Cartoonists of the Year 2023 – Update: Suella Heckled, Adams Honored
Winners of The 2023 Ellwood Atfield Political Cartoon of the Year Awards have been announced. Ellwood Atfield with The Political…
CSotD: Wars, and Rumors of Wars
The resumption of war in Gaza is no rumor, though Glen LeLievre manages at least to inject a note of…
MoAD’s Behind the Lines 2023
Artificial intelligence, the Voice referendum, the cost-of-living crisis, King Charles III’s coronation and the Matildas. These are just some of…
CSotD: Say what?
When the little newspaper on Long Island revealed the cascade of lies under which George Santos was elected, it touched…