Yesterday I featured JD Crowe’s cartoon of Musk with baby Trump on his shoulders, noting that there were several variations going around. I’ve seen so many of them that I was tempted to do a whole day of nothing else, but decided that sarcastic repetition doesn’t make much of a point. Ditto lately with cartoons […]
The tribute cartoons marking Ann Telnaes’ courageous departure from the Washington Post continue to appear, and DD Degg has links to several. This one is by Tjeerd Royaards, editor at Cartoon Movement, and that organization has released a statement on the situation which is worth a read, because it talks about the state of political […]
Let’s start with this depressing cartoon from Jonesy. It might be funny if it were some kind of exaggeration, but it functions as an editorial cartoon that, as editorial cartoons can do, elicits a grim smile of recognition. The speed with which AI is taking over everything has made it impossible for the greater society […]
This is a “where to start” day, but we’ll lead off with Non Sequitur (AMS), because, while I don’t blame it all on the media, I agree with Wiley that the states that were so important a few weeks ago are no longer on anyone’s mind. Election promises are famous for being empty, but I […]
I think today’s Deflocked (AMS) is largely an example of lead time. When the first cell phone bans in school were announced, editorial cartoonists leapt to depict disheartened children, though my own suspicion was that the kids would largely shrug it off and either adjust to life in the here and now or find new […]
Letting Dave Whamond lead off, despite a couple of hesitations. One is about the connection between the shooting and football, but my main quibble is with “How could this happen?” because, come on, who’s surprised anymore? Which is his point, so he should have reworked it. He does make up for it with the looks […]
Adam@Home (AMS) is in an optimistic mood as 2024 has launched, though not quite as much in a hurry as his wife, who I suspect is only trying to encourage him, given that they’ve been married long enough to have a couple of kids on the brink of middle school. After all, encouraging him has […]
Following 9/11, I used this Peter Schrank cartoon in my school presentations. It’s brilliant not simply because the world was, indeed, traumatized by the event, but because he melded both that horror-stricken face and Munch’s original drawing of the bridge with the image of people fleeing down the street from the collapsing buildings. And it […]
I wish I could believe in Paul Fell’s vision of a world in which labor unions had the upper hand on management. He’s got a point in that the falling unemployment rate gives workers a degree of leverage they haven’t enjoyed in quite a while, and it’s also true that there has been a jump […]
Matt Golding starts us off with this cheerful vision, and, while exaggeration is one of the main tools of political cartooning, this is less a case of exaggeration than it is of, as the phrase goes, “saying the silent part out loud.” While he didn’t intend a two-part comic, Golding returned to the overall theme […]
In a sane world, Gary Huck‘s cartoon — perhaps transformed into bumperstickers and T-shirts — could be a game changer. They knew. They lied. They played their audience for suckers. In a sane world, the backlash would do more harm to Murdoch’s empire than any penalty handed down in the Dominion lawsuit, as furious MAGA […]
This will be a relatively short CSotD, but don’t be fooled, because the links truly matter and you’ll have plenty of reading. First up is the new Supreme Court session which begins today, and Ann Telnaes lays out the issue with solid caricatures of the justices, putting the sure-fire conservatives in Spanish Inquisition Red, the […]
There are a number of MLK cartoons up for the holiday, but Bill Day captures the essential question of how things could possibly have changed so much, and yet so little. He does it with a pair of graphics suggesting that Martin Luther King is still the same person he was in life, and a […]
I’m feeling old and grumpy, but, thanks to Paul Berge, I feel less alone. I was tempted to do an entire blog entry of Saigon Evacuation cartoons, but he posted this on his page and it satisfies the urge, even if it doesn’t quell the frustration. Some of the more recent variations at least acknowledge that […]
Clay Jones posts a cartoon in anticipation of this weekend’s holiday, raising an issue that, while hardly new, remains of interest. He also conflates the Declaration of Independence with the Constitution, which was written a dozen years later and has a completely different function. (And if you blow it up, you’ll see he conflates it […]