CSotD: The Blogger Who Saw Everything Twice
As everyone struggles to explain the young man who tried to shoot Trump, I thought of this Tom the Dancing…
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CSotD: Seven More Days in May
“History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.” — Stephen Dedalus As Doonesbury concluded back in 1971,…
CSotD: Kissinger in the Rear View Mirror
Henry Kissinger died last evening, too late in the day for American cartoonists to do more than replay some of…
CSotD: The Dagnabbit Files
I laughed at this New Yorker cartoon, though they don’t bother crediting their cartoonists and if you Google “New Yorker…
CSotD: Two Score and 14 Years Ago … (YMMV)
The tradition is to mark history in round numbers, and 54 years ago is hardly that, but March 31, 1968…
CSotD: The Die Having Been Cast
There have been several cartoons comparing Putin to either Hitler or Stalin, but I like Robert Ariail’s, because it is…
CSotD: Trading New Years for Old
Happy New Year 1897 There is an old tradition in New Year’s cartoons of looking forward to a more…
CSotD: Without a Trace
(Dr. Macleod) (Jeremy Banx) Two threads in this particular Juxtaposition: The backgrounder is the current dustup in the UK about…
CSotD: News briefs
Jeff Koterba starts us off with a “Yes, but No” take on Michael Flynn’s bizarre declaration that the US is…
CSotD: Analyzing the Analysts
Critiquing cartoons is the point of this blog, but I try to be constructive, because pointing out good work is…
CSotD: Armistice Day in the midst of war
We defer to the Honolulu Star-Bulletin to set the scene for November 11, 1942, the first Armistice Day after Pearl…
CSotD: 30 years ago – Anita Hill
Thirty years ago, cartoonist reactions to Anita Hill’s testimony in Clarence Thomas’s confirmation hearings began to fill the editorial pages,…
CSotD: Traces of smoke and scat
I’ll be sending you off to some good stuff today, but let’s lead with a cartoon I absolutely cannot understand….
CSotD: Advent Potpourri
It used to be a tradition this time of year to break the fourth wall and wish readers a Merry…
CSotD: It’s getting cold out there
We’ll start with the easy one today: Greg Kearney (Ind) reminds me of when I lived in Maine and you…