After an absence of three days, I expected to have to catch up with things this morning, but I didn’t expect to walk in on this Juxtaposition Without Justification Lisa Benson — Counterpoint Dana Summers — Tribune Mike Lester — AMS Bob Gorrell — Creators I was too busy at the combined American/Canadian editorial cartoonists’ […]
Brazilian cartoonist Amorim (Cartoon Movement) leads us off today with a reasonable critique of the humanitarian disaster unfolding in Gaza, where Israel’s response to the horrific Hamas attacks has combined air attacks on suspected terrorist sites with warnings to civilians to evacuate an already crowded area, while food, water, fuel and electricity have been cut […]
Punchbooks has posted this cartoon from April 16, 1919, in which British Prime Minister David Lloyd George cheerfully presents the Paris Peace Agreement, citing the 1895 Punch cartoon which had turned an old joke into a permanent part of the culture: Parts of the agreement that ended the First World War were excellent, but it […]
There is a temptation to simply display Morten Morland’s absolutely brilliant commentary on Russian atrocities and shut down for the day. There’s also a temptation to save it for last, to end with a crescendo. But we have to be wary of temptation; I saw a posting from someone who wished Twitter had a button you […]
Today’s Candorville cracked me up because I recently was showered with some of what I call “talk show drunk” rhetoric. That goes back to my brief career in talk radio, which began with an evening show, six to nine, but advanced to a morning show from nine to noon. The night show rarely went without […]
Let’s start with David Fitzsimmons‘ panel today, because, while he’s not the first to point out that Evangelicals are willing to overlook the entire New Testament and substantial portions of the Old, his depiction of Trump brought something to mind. When I was younger, and not a whole lot younger, I was always bothered by […]