(Jack Ohman – WPWG) (Ann Telnaes – WashPo) Here’s a Juxtaposition of two cartoonists whose work I greatly admire, but I’m giving Telnaes the advantage this time around because, while I like and agree with both cartoons, there are times when understated banality is more powerful than comic exaggeration. Besides, wit all doo respeck to […]
Loretta Lockhorn (KFS) offers an apolitical commentary on the cancel culture, which lets us open the topic gently before diving in. “How dare they?” being the operative connection, and, if you want to trace its political applications back far enough, it becomes “How dare they offer medical care and food and mortgages to people who […]
Peter Brookes gets to do a “torn speech” cartoon here for a couple of reasons, the first being that I admire his artwork. Another is that I’m willing to forgive a furriner for not realizing that the Democrats never expected to remove Trump from office, and I’m also willing to accept that Dear Leader is […]
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 […]
Well, perhaps not so much of a bang as a whimper, but I like David Horsey’s take on the Iowa Caucus tech failure because the donkey has a full cloud of balloons in hand but is focusing on the one that burst, or fizzled, or whatever. There’s been a lot of chatter over the failure […]
I’ve complained about cartoonists taking their own sweet time to respond to breaking news but there was no such problem Friday, as the GOP Senators voted, as RJ Matson puts it in an echo of Watergate, not to hear any witnesses or see any evidence. He’s not the only cartoonist to summon the ghost of […]
Jack Ohman starts us off today by pointing out that Republican complaints that John Bolton is only offering to testify in order to sell books might be more compelling if they weren’t defending the biggest snake-oil salesman, grifter and shameless profiteer in major politics since the Teapot Dome. Trump also sells books, and, as Ohman […]
Tom Tomorrow scores in an increasingly difficult sector of the editorial cartooning world. Altie cartoonists like him, like Tom the Dancing Bug, Matt Bors, Jen Sorensen, have carved out a niche in which they use multi-panel cartoons to make a point through reductio ad absurdum fantasies. It was an easier gig back when politics and […]
(Mo) (Clay Jones) Two of the more engaged people I know express outrage over those who are not engaged. Jones, as is his wont, accompanies his cartoon with an essay on the topic of willful, deliberate ignorance, noting appropriately that it’s one thing for Deplorables to remain ignorant of the charges against their […]
Mike Marland anticipates the New Hampshire Primary, coming up February 11. According to 538, Bernie has a comfortable lead at the moment, with Biden in second place and Buttigieg and Warren in a statistical tie. Bernie is our hometown boy, and his strength here should be balanced against whatever happens in Iowa, where he’s less […]
Stuart Carlson may have the best perspective on the impeachment trial and the public. One continuing flaw in the liberal game plan is the notion that people will respond to logic, and it’s a misunderstanding of human nature that goes at least as far back as Jimmy Carter, who thought that, if he explained the […]
I’d like Mike Smith‘s cartoon better if he had widened the scope, because we’d be in a different situation if Dershowitz were the only character in the drama who does not appear to have read the basic document. Though, to be fair to Dershowitz, he has a long record — as Nick Anderson points […]
I’m going to reach across the sea to start the day, with a Chris Riddell cartoon that, in fact, ran a few days before the Impeachment Trial began. Not only is the whole world watching, but the whole world knows what they’re watching. And I suppose we should know, too, but seeing it unfold yesterday […]
I’m not necessarily standing behind anything today, but I’m promoting the idea of doing your damn homework, so I got a laugh out of Ann Telnaes’ reaction to a new federal policy cutting back on people working at home rather than at a desk in an office. As she notes, Dear Leader is more […]
I’m generally inclined to snicker derisively when a whole bunch of cartoonists go tearing off on the same topic, but this is different, mostly because (A) it matters a whole lot and (B) it’s not the usual dribs and drabs over a couple of weeks but a sudden rush of all-but-simultaneous commentary. And, BTW, it […]