I was glad to see Steve Brodner’s latest commentary, which is about banned books, and about the way the right wing has embraced Cancel Culture and about how young people are not accepting it. The Granbury School District is banning books. Banning them. Not simply removing them from a curriculum as we discussed yesterday, or […]
John Cole shows both reactions to Biden’s press conference. He gets the time wrong: It was just under two hours, hardly four, but still a prodigious effort. The dual response, I think, is between those who did the assigned homework — who watched the conference and judged it for themselves — and those who fake […]
Matt Wuerker (Politico) suggests that reports of the death of the GOP have not been greatly exaggerated, and not only do I agree, but I think he’s kind in labeling that monitor “Grip on Reality” rather than “Brain Function,” though they amount to the same thing. As noted here the other day, Republicans who, in […]
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 […]
Today’s Frazz (AMS) makes me wish for the days when I was Caulfield’s age and expected to live forever. For that matter, I wouldn’t mind going back to those days, because JFK was alive, we weren’t in Vietnam, the economy was booming, and I expected all that to go on forever as well. Though, […]
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 […]
Tom Tomorrow lays out the State of the Union, and it’s good that he goes into such detail, because a large number of cartoonists are either going into end-of-the-year round-up holiday mode or else pointing out that tornadoes are sad, leaving a reduced number of watchdogs at the gates. The destruction in Kentucky is indeed […]
Michael Ramirez (Creators) is not the only cartoonist to ask this question, but I particularly like the snow-globe imagery, which echoes the quarantine concept. It might have been presented as a Juxtaposition with Martyn Turner‘s piece, but they pose the overall question in very different terms, with Ramirez being metaphorical while Turner is direct. […]
The passage of the Infrastructure bill seems to have caught political cartoonists flat-footed, with most of the published commentary this morning assuming it remains stalled. I’m not sure I’d go as far as Steve Brodner and compare it to the coming of the Paraclete — Okay, I’m sure I wouldn’t — but it was still […]
Nick Anderson (Counterpoint) manages the only tasteful riff I’ve seen on that accidental movie set shooting. It’s not a real gun and GOP claims of a stolen election are equally fake and, alas, they’re both equally deadly. The question is not whether Donald Trump believes his Big Lie — he’s been a bullshit artist all […]
There’s a lot to like in Steve Sack‘s cartoon, which plays upon the recent decision to allow booster shots of whatever is available rather than the specific vaccine you had before. Not only is it a good wrap-up of the major lies being promoted and accepted, but the dizzy, satisfied smile on the face of […]
First Dog on the Moon touches on several points, beginning with how stories get assigned, but you’ll have to go here to read the whole thing Most newsroom people at daily papers work from just after lunch until roughly 9 pm or so, which means that, for the most part, they only know each other, […]
Starting out with a point of personal privilege: As Rod Emmerson notes, Covid is becoming a greater problem in rural areas than in urban centers, and I’ve been concerned about the old home town. This report from Kaiser Health News lays it on the line: Rural Americans are dying of covid at more than twice […]
Patrick Chappatte’s cartoon provides a warm-up exercise today. The latest Bond film is on the verge of release in theaters only, which may avoid some issues but why avoid controversy when, as Chappatte puts it, the mission is to resuscitate the audience? So, having previously gotten everyone riled up about Bond becoming Black, the latest […]
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 […]