Mamet satirizes a growing sense that certain politicians have no idea of how real life works. It’s funny that Mamet can’t tell a credit card from a library card, but not so funny that the president of the United States thinks you have to show identification to purchase groceries. And he specified photo ID, so […]
It’s Free Comic Book Day, A History of American Comics in 6 Panels, Tex Avery creates Bugs Bunny, Colleen Doran has advice for youngsters entering the cartooning world, and Michael Cavna talks to cartoonists about Pope Francis obituary cartoons. A quick reminder that it is Free Comic book Day. Visit your Local Comic Book Shop. […]
From The Buffalo News (or here): Adam Zyglis, Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist for The Buffalo News, has received another high honor. Zyglis captured first place in the Editorial Cartoons category in the 91st National Headliner Award competition, which honors the best print, broadcast and online journalism in the United States in 2024. From the National […]
I like to alternate humorous and political cartoon days, but sometimes the categories cross so here we are. Mike Baldwin has the least political of the funny cartoons today, but the Boring Company is owned by Elon Musk. He claims he thought of the name while stuck in a traffic jam, which is problematic because […]
You may recall that the Biden administration had a plan to hire IRS staff, mostly to replace retired staffers and augment customer service personnel, but with an eye towards greater enforcement of tax cheating in the upper levels of income. This was immediately branded (i.e. “lied about”) as a plan to send jackbooted thugs after […]
There are so many cartoons about the death of Pope Francis that I had to make decisions, one of which was to lead off with a Nick Anderson piece that he did for Easter, before the Pope died. It’s one that could have been done any Easter, because we have become very good at giving […]
Sometimes the jokes just write themselves. ICYMI, our president actually said “An old fashioned term that we use — groceries — I used it on the campaign. It’s such an old fashioned term, but a beautiful term. ‘Groceries.’ It’s a bag with different things in it.” This is, of course, the same president who believes […]
The new administration has made a move towards Truth in Advertising, or at least Truth in Tourism, ordering Washington DC to erase Black Lives Matter from the street, since they no longer do. They’ve also ordered the city to rename Black Lives Matter Plaza to Liberty Plaza or lose federal aid. Any time the word […]
Clay Jones gets to represent the large number of cartoons decrying the Democrats’ silent protest at the SOTU for two reasons. One is that he’s a big boy and I’ve complimented him enough times that he won’t get bent out of shape if I disagree with him, and the other is that he attached, as […]
Sometimes it’s easier to be a gag cartoonist than a political cartoonist, but this is not one of those times. I had, briefly, planned to run humorous pieces today while I waited for the editorialists to catch up, but fortunately they leapt to their drawing boards, because, like Sipress, I don’t find anything very funny […]
I’m tempted to invite you to read Joel Pett’s cartoon, thank you for coming and remind you to tip your waitress, because he manages to pack an awful lot of current events into his piece, with greedy billionaires and without a lot of exaggeration or irony to puzzle the reader. Obviously, they’re not this direct, […]
Just in time for Valentine’s Day, Maeve digs herself into yet another self-defeating romantic hole. This story arc actually began a few days ago, and now she has run into her ex, who is someone she can really talk to. I suspect that Simon is like a lot of the better exes in life, who […]
Rod Emmerson offers this view from New Zealand, which is that he is gobsmacked that we put such an undeserving person in charge of our nation and, given America’s international standing, in charge of much of the world. While in Britain, Ella Baron is appalled at how Trump swooped in to turn a tragedy into […]
Rick McKee provides a context for the quote, “Where ignorance is bliss, ‘Tis folly to be wise,” by Thomas Gray, who wrote a few better poems but not many better quotes. It’s gobsmacking for one portion of the population to hear the utter nonsense, toxic lies and frightening promises of the past week, and then […]
I could launch a separate blog titled “Cartoon Maps,” given the number of cartoonists who have reimagined the Western Hemisphere according to Trump. Some were pretty good, some were not. But Bob Englehart went for simplicity rather than cleverness, and wins for going to the heart of the matter and pointing out the arrogant jingoism […]