CSotD: Deflect, Deny, Discourage
Teresa Burns Parkhurst sets today’s mood, combining pointless carping about clocks with meaningful fear of Tuesday’s outcome. Most of the…
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Russians Using Cartoons to Influence Midterms
Graphika, a network analysis firm, has released a report on foreign actors, specifically Russian, trying to influence the United States…
CSotD: The Final, Most Essential Command
The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential…
CSotD: And another thing …
Nick Anderson (Tribune) with the only hammer cartoon you need. Or, at least, the only one you’re going to see…
CSotD: Men With Hammers
One of my first memes, from back when a man with a hammer declared “Mission Accomplished” before several thousand American…
Ward Sutton Wins 2022 Berryman Award
The National Press Foundation has announced that Ward Sutton has won the 2022 Clifford K. and James T. Berryman Award…
CSotD: Twitterpated
It’s Halloween, but that seems to mean “Cartoonists’ Day Off.” I found myself resisting the urge to post an entire page…
CSotD: Asymmetrical War on a Darkling Plain
I’m going to have to be frugal with cartoons this coming week, given that most are either Halloween gags, which…
Harvard Magazine Profiles Harvard’s Own KAL
Grotesquerie is Kevin “Kal” Kallaugher’s bread and butter. For fifty years the cartoonist has rendered newsmakers in a fleshy museum…
A Brief History of Britain’s Political Cartoonists
An article takes time to read, but a picture speaks to us instantly. In the 18th century, William Hogarth campaigned…
CSotD: Weekend Wrap
First, “He Who Must Be Dealt With,” and Ben Jennings bursts through the crowd of Musk-Freeing-Trump and Musk-Weaponizing-Twitter cartoons with…
CSotD: The Abyss Gazes Back
Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you…
Print Cartoon is Dead Long Live the Online Cartoon
The death of print editorial cartoons is a worldwide phenomena. Online platforms are full of editorial cartoons… the era of…
CSotD: Don’t bother. They’re here.
As we come within two weeks of the midterms, Paul Berge riffs on GEICO’s riff on cheesy horror movies to…
Pascal Élie – RIP
Editorial cartoonist Pascal Élie has passed away. Pascal Élie 1959 – October 21, 2022 From Terry Mosher and The…