Marc Murphy sums up the impending overturn of Roe v Wade, at least in its immediate significance. We’ll get into some more analysis tomorrow, since the flood of cartoons in the past 24 hours has yielded more good material than I have room for even in an extended posting. Murphy demonstrates the power of minimalist […]
F-Minus (AMS) hit me solidly this morning because I’d just been through my morning check-in on social media, which included a whole lot of people declaring their defiant intent to something-something-something in the New Year, mostly involving not takin’ nothin’ from nobody. I’d rather they pledged to lose weight, which isn’t going to happen either, […]
Bill Bramhall starts us off with a bit of optimism, and he’s correct that a lot of people are fed up with the anti-vaxxers who refuse to accept the normal responsibilities of living in society. The problem is that it really doesn’t matter how many actual, real people want the crybabies to shut up, get […]
I would likely have placed this Jimmy Margulies (KFS) cartoon lower in the blog today, had events not likely had him tearing out his hair. I’m playing with timing myself. It’s a very good piece, because, while the infrastructure bill matters, the eviction issue was more pressing, and it would have led to a whole […]
(Ann Telnaes — WashPo) (Matt Davies — AMS) We could have a full day of nohting but Cruisin’ Cruz cartoons, but here are two and they pretty much tell the story (nice snow shovels), though it’s important, I suppose, to note: (A) Cruz lied about having promised his daughters a vacation and simply taking them […]
There are some good cartoons on the impending impeachment trial, and we’ll start with Dan Wasserman (Tribune) because he sets the scene: It’s going to require at least 17 Republicans to vote guilty in order to convict. Watergate was different in that the actions being investigated were contained within the Executive and there was little […]
The Gamestop/Reddit gambit creates one of those “Where do I start?” sorts of days, but certainly Alex (Telegraph.UK) is an excellent place, even though he wasn’t commenting specifically on that. I often — perhaps too often — admit that Alex can be kind of nerdy for those who have not been immersed in the business […]
We’ll start with the easy one today: Greg Kearney (Ind) reminds me of when I lived in Maine and you didn’t dare complain about the cold, because the Yankee response was, “Well, ya live in Maine …” They weren’t expressing resignation. I was used to places where, at winter break, everyone fled to Orlando, so […]
Morten Morland (London Times) provides a pretty good picture of what Joe Biden is facing. Between things that never happened and things that never should have happened, this isn’t going to be a matter of quietly continuing but of a massive cleanup. The good news is that, having been a vice-president who was genuinely consulted […]
Dave Brown indulges in what I think is a perfectly valid case of whataboutism, as the Republican Party and its Dear Leader ignore the beam in their own eye to attack the mote in Joe Biden’s. Only, as his parallel drawings suggest, there isn’t even much of a mote. For Trump and his myrmidons, it’s […]
I’ve held this Mike Thompson piece longer than I like to, but I’m going to use it now because it illustrates, perhaps by what it isn’t, a factor in much of what’s going on. Which is to say that I like it because of its depiction of AOC’s cheerful, stress-free, total obliteration of a bullying […]
This Robert Cenedella poster seems like a kind of Grinchy way to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the moon landing, but stick with me here, because the topic today is spin, lies and professionalism. I’m seeing a lot of political cartoons based on the idea that the Apollo landing united a fractured nation, which it […]
RJ Matson offers one of the more neutral cartoons regarding Michael Cohen’s planned appearance today before the House Oversight Committee. Cohen blew a previous plea bargain by lying, and, as all fans of “Law & Order” (the TV show, not necessarily the concept) know, it’s standard procedure to attempt to impeach any witness — even an […]
I hadn’t pulled Ed Hall‘s cartoon out of the pile, despite having seen Dear Leader’s tweet in which he, yes, invoked “global warming” in the face of the Polar Vortex. First of all, I hated that movie. I don’t see much difference between the disabled person who teaches us all a lesson about life and […]
I’ve seen about half a dozen Carol Channing obituary cartoons, which sent me to IMBD to find out the last time she worked. Turns out it’s not quite as long ago as this TV Guide cover, which was in 1966. She did some voice work a quarter century ago and a couple of cameo appearances […]