We’ll get to knaves and fools in a minute, but first a salute to unintentional genius, as The Brilliant Mind of Edison Lee (KFS) magically riffs on the McDonald’s e coli outbreak despite having been scripted and drawn well before it happened. Sometimes the Fates smile and make you look really smart, but, alas, there […]
“In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can’t build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery, and death. I see the world gradually being turned into a wilderness, I hear the ever approaching thunder, which will destroy us too, I can feel the […]
“(N)o plagiarist can excuse the wrong by showing how much of his work he did not pirate.” — Judge Learned Hand Mike Lester (AMS) is hardly the only conservative to be dancing on the grave of Claudine Gay’s career, now that she has been pressured into resigning as president of Harvard University. I begin today with […]
This could have been a short day for me, because Jen Sorensen has said everything I have on my mind. Instead, I’ll elaborate. One challenge in critiquing editorial cartoons gone wrong is trying to determine if the cartoonist is genuinely mistaken or deliberately lying, but I like to think that deliberate lies come from farther […]
The whole world is watching, and, as Cathy Wilcox notes, they’ve stopped laughing. I can’t speak for Australians, but, from here, it was always a kind of horrified laugh or sometimes, given that we’d elected him, an embarrassed laugh. But the laughter is dying down, as she notes, because he’s gone from being a buffoon […]
Might as well start with a laugh, or as close as we can get to one. RJ Matson steps back from attempting to inspire horror over the lack of ethics on the Supreme Court, and the Chief Justice’s refusal to take it seriously. Maybe mockery is more effective than head-on criticism. It has been said […]
This is one of those “Where do I start?” days, but Eric Allie (Counterpoint) offers a segue from yesterday, in which I chided Bob Gorrell and Mike Lester for writing Title 42 cartoons before the fact arose that, rather than their expected flood of migrants with the demise of the act, the number of crossing […]
I’m sure Dave Coverly simply intended to make a funny with this Speed Bump (Creators), but it hit at a moment when it struck a nerve. And if you hate sports, trust me and stick around. The death of John Madden brought out a lot of tributes, including some rebroadcasts of games from when he […]
Non Sequitur (AMS) captures the current situation, and the Biblical reference is worthy. Exodus is, if not a tale of herding cats, at least a story of how Moses had to continually keep his people moving forward by addressing their unending doubts and grievances, until, when Jehovah had reached out with some specifics, he came […]
I’ll save the other Memorial Day cartoons for later, but Ed Hall provides a fitting starting point for looking at yesterday’s vote, in which the GOP spared us the painful burden of proving that there was no insurrection, that it was, in fact, BLM and Antifa crisis actors pretending to be Trump supporters peacefully behaving […]
The Red Queen, who was running as fast as she could just to stay in one place, has been taken from the board, to be shortly replaced by the White Queen, who can believe six impossible things before breakfast. Yes, I know: Ann Telnaes has drawn her in good Republican red, but Elise Stefanik is […]
At first glance, Rob Rogers (Ind)’s cartoon sparked a “Yes, I know,” response, because we’ve all watched the GOP spinelessly acquiesce to Dear Leader’s assault on the electoral system. But his caption adds a disturbing element, at least for those of us who remember the days when we chose to believe that the mass of […]
And isn’t that an enticing headline? Alex made me laugh but, as it often does, also made me ponder, which isn’t the same as making me think. That is, nothing cosmic, but, rather, a question of how much job-hunting and head-hunting happens over the phone these days? In 1999, when I was aching to get […]
One of the keys to looking up contemporary coverage of historic moments is that you really have to look at the newspapers of the next day, though if you look at June 6, 1944, the time difference between France and even the East Coast of the United States meant that morning papers who were on […]