Dave Ostow comes up with the most frightening first-person game ever. As I’ve said before, I reached a level of enlightenment when I realized that, as middle management, I could adopt the practice of other bosses: Show up, have a drink, greet the people in my department and get the hell out before anybody starts […]
The Walkley Foundation has announced the winners in this year’s Walkley Awards. This year’s Cartoon of the Year goes to Cathy Wilcox for her cartoon ‘Break glass’ for The Sydney Morning Herald. This is Cathy’s fourth Walkley Award (2007, 2013, 2017, 2024). She is current president of Australian Cartoonists Association and according to her bio […]
When we were reading Hamlet junior year, the professor asked why there was the gravedigger scene, and we all dutifully responded about easing the tension, to which he said, “Shakespeare had a clown in his troupe and had to write something for him.” I don’t know if I accept that, but for either reason, here’s […]
Patrick Chappatte calls the Trump election a wake-up call for Europe, which demands more analysis than a first reaction might suggest. I invoke Robert Burns in today’s headline, the full closing lines of To A Louse, On Seeing one on a Lady’s Bonnet at Church being “O wad some Pow’r the giftie gie us To […]
Tommy Siegel offers an explanation of what happened this week, and, while foolish arrogance doesn’t explain it all, I feel free to skip politics today and just offer some laughs and general social reflection. I think the political cartoonists need some time to reflect and refocus. There have been some good responses, as seen here […]
I’ve noted in the past that for empty-nested, retired folks, holidays are when the banks are closed and there’s no mail delivery, but I’ll happily let Arlo & Janis (AMS) make the point again. The United States has two levels of federal holidays: Those we actually observe — New Year’s Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, […]
Note: One of my father’s favorite expressions was “If you don’t want to know the answer, don’t ask the rebbi.” This would be an excellent day to skip reading if you don’t want to know. Rob Rogers brings up a matter you’re not supposed to bring up, which makes me wonder if any newspapers will […]
The Walkley Foundation has announced the finalists for its Walkley Awards for Excellence in Journalism. In the category of Cartoon of the Year, the finalists are Matt Golding, Fiona Katauskas, and Cathy Wilcox. The Walkley Award is the most prestigious honor in Australian journalism, akin to the Pulitzer Prize in the U.S. The award recognizes […]
I promised more coverage if there were more cartoons about the VP Debate, so we’ll start with Walt Handelsman’s contribution, because the buried joke here is that the undecideds didn’t likely watch the debate but he’s right that they are likely still peddling the same-old-same-old excuse. It’s so much better than admitting that you can’t […]
My initial response to this Cathy Wilcox cartoon was negative, and I still think it is politically unfair, if only because she features Biden, Harris and Walz decrying violence when it is the Democrats who have attempted to limit the problem. There’s a great deal more hypocrisy in the “thoughts and prayers” approach of those […]
Pearls Before Swine (AMS) offers a yes-but-no discussion of our situation. There certainly are a lot of people siloed in their own little belief centers, and that’s a problem in a democratic system where people are supposed to make informed decisions. But there is such a thing as truth, and there is such a thing […]
Ann Telnaes combines her anguish over the crackdown on women’s rights under the reconstituted Afghan government with her fury over the assault on women’s rights and dignity by JD Vance and his misogynistic followers. Don’t say “It can’t happen here,” because it’s already happening here with the overturning of Roe v Wade, cutbacks to freedom […]
Michael Ramirez (Creators) offered a curious take on CNN’s candidate interview. It appeared the morning after, but that likely means it was drawn before the interview aired. He assumed, then, that Harris was incapable of answering questions without Walz to save her. Now, judging it in retrospect, it’s clear from the transcript that absolutely nothing […]
The Australian Kennedy Foundation has announced this year’s winners of the Kennedy Awards for Outstanding Journalism. In the category of Outstanding Cartoon, the prize goes to Cathy Wilcox of the Nine Network & The Sydney Morning Herald, for her cartoon Solid Ground. Solid Ground by Cathy Wilcox Finalists for the award are: The Kennedy Awards […]
There have been times when emigrating to Australia seemed like a good idea, but it doesn’t take a lot of reflection to recognize the futility. After all, Nevil Shute wrote On the Beach in 1957 and Stanley Kramer turned it into a movie in 1959 in which Australians waited for death to arrive in a […]