CSotD: Current Events Roundup
I don’t know if today’s Non Sequitur (AMS) counts as “fortuitous” timing, since nobody in Vermont or the lower Hudson…
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CSotD: The Anarchist’s Cooked Books
Those were the days, my friend. We thought they’d never end. Dr. MacLeod piggybacks on the success of the new…
Call For Entries: 2023 Rex Babin Memorial Award for Excellence in Local Cartooning
The Association of American Editorial Cartoonists (the renovated AAEC website will return soon) has opened the window for submitting cartoons…
Cavna Calls on Cancelled Cartoonists
On Tuesday, three Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonists — Ohman of the Sacramento Bee, Joel Pett of the Lexington Herald-Leader and…
CSotD: Bankruptcy of another kind
(Jack Ohman — Pulitzer Prize, 2016) (Joel Pett — Pulitzer Prize, 2000) (Kevin Siers — Pulitzer Prize, 2014) This is,…
CSotD: Subjective Reality
If we’re going to talk about subjective reality, we might as well begin where the term was hatched, in the…
CSotD: Don’t despair, but don’t lose focus
Scott Stantis (Counterpoint) notes another rate hike at the post office, but I’m not fretting over it. I don’t like…
CSotD: More Cartooning Controversies
I’m surprised and a bit disappointed that more political cartoonists in Britain haven’t jumped on Robert Jenrick’s heartless order to…
Overseas Outrage – Cartoon Controversies
The Australian Financial Review is being scolded for running what some see as a racist cartoon advertisement. From The Guardian:…
Froomkin: WaPo Choice of Editoons Failing
Press Watch, “devoted to encouraging political journalists to fulfill their essential mission of creating an informed electorate,” is not happy…
CSotD: Picking at Loose Threads
We’ll let Joy of Tech introduce today’s topic, which is about a new app that millions of people have signed…
CSotD: When in doubt, spin it out
Prickly City (AMS) continues the thread cited here yesterday, on the negative perceptions people attach to politicians. Historical perspective matters:…
CSotD: Independence Day wrap-up
Constant Readers know how strongly I identify with Arlo and Janis (AMS), and certainly I do on this strip. It’s…
Pedro X. Molina, Nicaragua to Ithaca
Ithaca N.Y.—“My country is under a dictatorship, so even if you don’t want to talk about politics — politics is…
CSotD: Independence Day, half a century ago
This Doonesbury ran on May 30, 1973, not July 4, but it’s an important intro to the political cartoons that…