I don’t necessarily admire Amelia’s lack of patience or occasionally unpleasant ways of expressing displeasure, but I agree that it’s tough watching geniuses craft the voice of a generation. There’s room for debate and disagreement, of course. That’s been a fundamental part of democracy since the days of Athens. Whamond raises a good current example: […]
Joe Heller explains how we have responded to the collision of a passenger plane with a military helicopter. We’re not waiting for investigators to sort through what happened, because we know who is at fault. Liberals believe it’s because 10 days ago changes were made in the top ranks of the FAA which immediately filtered […]
Garth German makes a good point, though I suspect he’s too late and we can’t reverse the process now. Here’s a relevant quote from Herman Wouk in the Caine Mutiny: The Navy is a master plan designed by geniuses for execution by idiots. If you are not an idiot, but find yourself in the Navy, you […]
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 […]
Dave Granlund Marc Murphy I’m okaying Granlund and Murphy for the hardhats because, while their cartoons salute his post-presidency Habitat for Humanity work, they do so while praising his other accomplishments, marking his whole life, not just one aspect of it. I won’t, however, feature cartoons that portray him entirely as a carpenter or that […]
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 […]
There are scores of cartoons questioning who is the president, Donald or Elon, but I particularly like Jeff Stahler (AMS)‘s take because it suggests some sneakiness on Elon’s part, rather than a willing handover by Dear Leader. The way to get Musk out of government is not by direct demands. Trump hates being told what […]
Time Person of the Year cartoons are piling up, as are social media posts pointing out that Adolph Hitler also made the cut, but I think Dave Granlund hit the combo with this collection of Dubious Heroes. Though he missed this one from 1979. It’s not intended as an honor. It’s supposed to reflect the […]
Kevin Necessary offers the first of a planned sequence of cartoons going through the stages of grief, and he seems to speak for a lot of his fellow political cartoonists, as well as a lot of civilians. Kyle Bravo expresses much the same feeling on behalf of those outside the trade, who face different challenges […]
Michael deAdder Ben Garrison We won’t get through all the emerging political cartoons about the election today, but here are the bookends: de Adder sees it as the monster returning, referencing Poltergeist, the 1982 horror film about a gateway opening up to the other side, while Garrison cites the Magnificent Seven, in which a group […]
Jack Ohman (Tribune) offers a combination of the mundane and the insightful. It seems 90% of the conversation about Trump’s rally was about the first tasteless joke by the first tasteless speaker. Not only did everyone ignore the parade of white supremacists and assorted bigots who followed Tony Hinchcliffe, but few of them bothered to […]
Jack Ohman (Tribune) had this cartoon up before Jeff Bezos broke a pair of rules: Bezos has written a too-long piece for his newspaper explaining why he decided not to publish a presidential endorsement but not explaining why they earlier published congressional endorsements or why he waited until eleven days before the election to make […]
There have been a number of cartoons responding to Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos having spiked an endorsement for Kamala Harris, many of them playing on the Post’s motto “Democracy Dies in the Dark.” Ann Telnaes gets the top spot in part because she works there and her cartoon joins with 16 Washington Post columnists […]
I wasn’t sure who to start with this morning, so I decided to move the video to the top of the posting and start with the Rock Man from the Point!, whom I quote fairly often: “You see what you want to see, and you hear what you want to hear.” You can catch his […]
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 […]