It’s not really International Obedience Day, and this isn’t a new cartoon. It’s World Press Freedom Day and Molina’s cartoon dates from 2019. I’m featuring it because I particularly like it and because I’m sorry that Molina is still here in America, having fled Nicaragua because there wasn’t a whole lot of press freedom there. […]
From The Buffalo News (or here): Adam Zyglis, Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist for The Buffalo News, has received another high honor. Zyglis captured first place in the Editorial Cartoons category in the 91st National Headliner Award competition, which honors the best print, broadcast and online journalism in the United States in 2024. From the National […]
First, some context: Roosevelt was elected in the midst of the Great Depression, and, in the opening paragraph of his first inaugural speech, he laid out the nation’s real challenge: This is preeminently the time to speak the truth, the whole truth, frankly and boldly. Nor need we shrink from honestly facing conditions in our […]
Arcadio Esquivel reaches for one of my least favorite images, the notion that cavemen mated by bopping women over their heads and dragging them away. This fits no primitive society I’m aware of; in all the hunter/gatherer societies I’ve read about, women are the cornerstones and they make the decisions about who will marry whom, […]
Katauskas isn’t exaggerating by a whole lot, and while the current flood of insanity might make it hard for a fortuneteller to go off the rails, the resulting target-rich environment poses a different challenge for political cartoonists. There is, first of all, the question of which event to pick up on. You don’t want to […]
Tom Toles played on Trump’s call for Russia to hack into Hillary Clinton’s computer, a 2016 campaign ruckus that began when it turned out she’d set up a computer at home on which she did some State Department work that should have been confined to government servers. Although it was a private server and not […]
I’m pretty well done with talking about the State of the Union Address, and Horsey sums it up fairly well. Commentators have referred to it as more of a campaign speech than anything addressing the state of the union or proposing any major policies, or at least any new ones. It did likely help Trump […]
This cartoon is both depressing and encouraging, being an external viewpoint from Denmark. He’s right that we’ve fallen into the clutches of partisan lunatics, though perhaps you have to be old enough to remember the Cultural Revolution to comprehend the realities of an army of extremist disciples roaming the country looking for unfaithful citizens to […]
It’s a pleasant fantasy, to imagine each bizarre, disturbing development coming along in a separate day. If it did, we could brace for it as Katauskas suggests. But, of course, that’s not how a firehose works, though the unbearable daily terror she posits would be an improvement on the flood that actually occurs. As it […]
Guy Venables speaks for the world and most of us in America as well. I wasn’t even going to address the election today, because I’m burned out on it and there’s nothing new anyhow. At this stage, you’re either on the bus or you’re off the bus. I saw somebody on Facebook — a grownup, […]
Jack Ohman (Tribune) offers a combination of the mundane and the insightful. It seems 90% of the conversation about Trump’s rally was about the first tasteless joke by the first tasteless speaker. Not only did everyone ignore the parade of white supremacists and assorted bigots who followed Tony Hinchcliffe, but few of them bothered to […]
Pearls Before Swine (AMS) offers a yes-but-no discussion of our situation. There certainly are a lot of people siloed in their own little belief centers, and that’s a problem in a democratic system where people are supposed to make informed decisions. But there is such a thing as truth, and there is such a thing […]
There isn’t much doubt as to how the debate went: See Ann Telnaes’ animated original here as Donald Trump self-destructed while Kamala Harris looked on. The blame continues to be discussed, however, in a flood of cartoons and memes and wisecracks and serious commentary. RJ Matson poses it as a disaster for the Republican Party, […]
David Parkins, a British-born cartoonist working for the Globe and Mail in Toronto, has captured the mood down here as the Democratic National Convention rounds up. A lot of my favorite overseas cartoonists don’t seem to quite grasp our political system, but I do keep an open mind and, given that Parkins’ political cartoons are […]
Australian cartoonist Warren Brown has produced my favorite attempted-assassination cartoon so far and I recognize that there’s something twisted about having a “favorite attempted-assassination cartoon.” But he’s right that, while the nicked ear is a calamity that gives Trump the chance to play victim and to divert attention from the ghastly proposals of Project 2025 […]