If you follow any cartoonists on social media, you’ve probably already seen Ann Telnaes’ interactive analysis of the January 6 insurrection, because her colleagues have been praising and forwarding it since she unveiled it yesterday. That’s unusual, not because of professional competition but simply because cartoonists tend to sit back and watch the market rather […]
Happy New Year 1897 There is an old tradition in New Year’s cartoons of looking forward to a more prosperous future, and it goes back at least 125 years to this piece from the Brooklyn Eagle, unsigned but credited to the New York Press, a crosstown paper whose writers, according to Wikipedia, came up […]
We’ll start out with some good news, via Steve Brodner: Not only did the Kellogg’s workers ratify a new contract, but it seems like they got pretty much what they wanted and that management — who had threatened to replace them with scabs — got pretty much not a whole lot except several months of […]
Clay Jones takes a poke at cartoonists who have drawn Joe Manchin as the Grinch, and I’m happy to pass it on because I didn’t really want to do an entire posting of Grinch/Manchin cartoons. Several Grinch cartoons had appeared before the current flood of Manchin cartoons, and it’s not surprising, given how the Grinch […]
“We’ve all heard that a million monkeys banging on a million typewriters will eventually reproduce the entire works of Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true.” — Robert Wilensky Juxtaposition of the Day (Jen Sorensen) (Tom Tomorrow) A simple start: Sorensen mourns what we tried to have, but which […]
Graeme MacKay starts us out easy, with a supply chain gag that, for some reason, doesn’t depict a broken chain with some politician in the middle, hanging on by the broken ends. Perhaps he didn’t get the memo. However, he hit me at the right moment, because I bought my Halloween candy the other […]
We’ll start this discussion of misunderstandings and outright lies with an easy one: Steve Kelley (Creators) resurrects an old canard that, rather than holding off rallies because of the pandemic, Candidate Biden was “hiding in his basement,” and uses it to make a point about his falling approval ratings. You can find any sort […]
Given that today is only the 17th, I have no idea how many people will turn out tomorrow to protest the arrests of people who attempt the violent overthrow of the government. Nor, assuming they show up, do I know whether they will be met with the rubber bullets, truncheons and tear gas used against […]
On the 20th Anniversary of the attacks of 9/11, Steve Breen (Creators) demonstrates that less is more. I’m surprised more cartoonists didn’t feel compelled to mark the day, but perhaps they realized how little they had to add to the conversation. It was hardly a banner day for the art form then, and the proportion […]
I wish I could agree with Jack Ohman on this one. Given the disloyalty of the Republican Party in recent years — resisting inquiries into the insurrection and helping to keep the pandemic raging, etc. — it’s easy to condemn them for their role in second-guessing Biden throughout the evacuation from Afghanistan, with, yes, the […]
One of my favorite passages in “War and Peace” comes when young Nicholai Rostov gets his first, and nearly last, taste of combat. Unhorsed and injured, he’s lucky to escape at all, but what he has left behind are his romantic notions and his childish sense that he is not subject to the same rules […]
(Clay Bennett – CTFP) (Michael Ramirez – Creators) (Gary Varvel – Creators) Clay Bennett best sums up yesterday’s unexpected resignation of Andrew Cuomo, though I got a chuckle out of Michael Ramirez’s take. Political cartoons aren’t required to be funny, but it’s a nice bonus if you can slip in a laugh without […]
Rabbits Against Magic (AMS) establishes today’s theme with a joke that should make you weep rather than laugh. Facts are facts and opinions are opinions, but truth seems to waver somewhere in the middle, and saying “seems” only emphasizes the uncertainty. There are limits: When George Berkeley wrote that reality was only what our minds […]
Clay Bennett (CTFP) starts our discussion of health issues. We’re awash in misinformation and disinformation, and this was quite the week, even for poor Baby Tuckoo, who specializes in purposefully spreading it. Not only did he get called a bad human being, but one of the few people willing to advertise on his show no […]
Jack Ohman (WPWG)’s phrasing differs slightly from Ron White’s classic bit, which is also a reflection on the current state of medical science. The nice thing about that video clip is that White, a veteran of the Blue Collar Comedy Tour, cannot possibly be dismissed as a liberal. Which means even rock-ribbed rightwingers should listen […]