Robert Ariail depicts the Republican elephant whistling past the graveyard, and it certainly seems the GOP is coming apart at the seams and could, indeed, cease to exist. The Whigs, however, may not be the best example of that, though they did go from being able to put candidates in the White House — not […]
The last minute continuing resolution renders a lot of this past week’s political cartoons obsolete, but Paul Noth’s panel is not only worthy of inclusion anyway but can serve as a reminder that, while the immediate crisis may have (mostly) passed, the overall problem remains. As others have observed, the Constitution was written with the […]
In Edward Albee’s “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf,” a hard-drinking couple center their lives and their relationship around a cruel series of shared memories of extremely dubious truth. Any more would be a spoiler, and, if you’ve never seen Mike Nichols’ 1966 film of the play, you should. But don’t expect to laugh, because, in the […]
Kevin Kallaugher is one of those rare cartoonists whose artistry is so fine that you might like his work even when you don’t agree with his premise. However, he’s in another too-rare category, that of the political cartoonist who does his homework rather than illustrating a myth or resorting to personal insults in place of […]
There has been a sudden flood of Liz Cheney cartoons from the left side of the aisle, and Jack Ohman (WPWG) explains why, in perhaps a roundabout way. When cartoonists from the right all start pursuing the same topic, it’s often because an influential conservative website, radio show or TV network has sounded the call. […]
Topics for cartoons are beginning to come out of Washington like the firehose of which Dan Perkins warned, and Chip Bok is only one of several conservatives who dismissed reports that Dear Leader had referred to veterans as “losers and suckers” because the sources had requested anonymity. If they were telling the truth, they’d have […]
Tom Toles leads off today with the central issue our country is facing: Donald Trump and his minions are promoting a cult of personality. For those who only know the term through rock music, “Cult of Personality” emerged as a political term in 1956, when Nikita Khruschev took power in the USSR and began attempting […]
I’ve held this Joe Heller cartoon too long, since it obviously ran on Ash Wednesday, nearly a week ago, but I hadn’t forgotten it and there’s a reason for that. There’ve always been jokes about giving things up for Lent. One of my favorite Mr. Dooleys is about his father trying to give up smoking […]
I’m thinking of doing an entire blog consisting of nothing but cartoons of the Wall Street bull statue wearing a surgical mask. At this stage, it’s still a coincidence, but time’s up, gang. If you would like to examine the coronavirus in more detail, I’d suggest you go to the Guardian and read the […]
Tom Tomorrow scores in a time when it’s hard to make more than one valid argument, never mind popping off nine of them. Most of the multi-panel commentators at the moment seem to start well and then either fade to pointlessness or wander off into delusional conspiracy theories. Granted, there are prolific one-panel cartoonists who […]
A leftover from yesterday, this Pajama Diaries has been rattling around in my consciousness for a couple of reasons. One is that, as Terri Libenson brings the comic to a close — there’s only two weeks left — I’m going to really miss it but I suspect that she, like Jill, is doing a little […]