We’re going to take a little break from politics today, while I recover from having spent the past week banging my head on the desk. Like the grandfather in The Buckets (AMS), I’ve been sparring with my computer and various online entities. Both the motherboard and hard drive on my desktop are in hospice, but […]
Adam Zyglis explains the ongoing outrage factor, in which the Republicans work to rile up the public over dubious threats while quietly enacting real ones. Coming up with phony reasons to restrict voting rights is a core goal, but hardly the only one: It’s also reported that, while GOP legislators are fuming over the prospect […]
There aren’t a lot of good cartoons about the Buffalo shootings, and I’m not sure it’s worth waiting, because what can anyone say that hasn’t been said? Yesterday, so many cartoonists reposted work from years past on social media that I had trouble sorting reactions to these murders from reactions to all those other […]
Mykolas Lukosevicius wasted no time commenting on Macron’s victory in yesterday’s French elections, the caption reading, “So, happy?” Liberty looks anything but, and little wonder after the campaign she’s just endured. She chose the lesser of two evils, and Mykolas offers a bit of a visual joke in that, while her bare breast is taken […]
Tom Tomorrow sets the stage today by extending the Republicans’ strategy of fear- and hate-mongering into the absurd, for the benefit of anyone who didn’t think it was already there. And let’s note, in particular, that fifth panel, because, in a functioning democracy, it seems unbalanced to blame one party for trying to destroy everything. […]
Monty (AMS)‘s pal Moondog is still hauling a turkey around and aren’t we all? Thanksgiving leftovers are something people in cartoons complain about but that I suspect people in real life not only don’t mind but actually enjoy. The microwave really shines this time of year, when you can quickly recreate Thanksgiving dinner in miniature, […]
Mr. Boffo is a constant celebration of dumbasses, often, as in this case, accompanied by the side-glance of a woman who realizes what an idiot she married. Granted, whether this dork knows what the Magna Carta was, he clearly knows when it was signed. Which makes me wonder if he knows that, when the Constitution […]
Bill Bramhall (NYDN) captures the moment by contrasting FDR’s first inaugural call for national unity with the current GOPs determination to maintain division. First of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is…fear itself — nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into […]
Tom Toles (WashPost) gives a warning about the scary times to come in the next two and a half weeks. Facing what appears to be total disaster, Dear Leader and his acolytes have thrown caution and taste to the winds in a desperate attempt to do something or other. It’s not clear what. […]
Bill Bramhall illustrates what FDR was talking about in his oft-quoted, rarely contextualized remark that “we have nothing to fear but fear itself.” It was in his first inaugural, as he took the reins from Herbert Hoover and began the task of rebuilding a shattered economy. Specifically, he was making a promise that honesty and […]
Normally, a hurricane is a disaster not only for those it impacts, but for editorial cartooning as well: It’s one of those events, like the death of a celebrity or, for that matter, a kerfuffle at a tennis match, which makes everyone pick up their pens and say nothing. However, these are not normal times, […]
There’s a lot going on today, much of which does not reflect well on civilization. My Kindle edition of Bob Woodward’s “Fear” was delivered at midnight, but, for the moment, I have only the Washington Post coverage of the other day and a few other early reviews to go on. However, I suspect there will […]