You can tell this is an old Arlo & Janis (AMS) — it’s from 2000 — because I don’t think many people defrag their hard drives anymore, or, at least, it’s not as easy to climb into the guts of the machine as it was back in the days of C-prompts. I don’t have a […]
Let me lead off today’s retrospective by admitting I don’t have dates on all of these cartoons and they may well not be in chronological order, nor were they all preserved in the best possible format for use here. However, I do know that Peter Schrank’s 9/11 cartoon should be first, because I used it […]
There were a boatload of primaries the other day and now it’s on to November, and, as Dave Granlund says, we’ll be anxiously covering the mud slinging as part of what in media parlance is called “Horserace Coverage.” We won’t talk about policies or plans, because that’s boring. Besides, nobody cares. They just want to […]
We’ll start the day with a quick, unexpected history lesson, courtesy of Jeff Danziger (WPWG). I went to look up Vyacheslav Molotov to confirm that he was Stalin’s Minister of Defense during the Hungarian uprising, and discovered that he wasn’t: He was Foreign Minister. More important, I discovered that the Molotov cocktail, though used to […]
The best part of this Daddy’s Home (Creators) is that he’s right, sort of. That is, we shouldn’t believe what they say, because we all use more than 10 percent of our brain, though the people who keep saying this perhaps do not. It’s appropriate that she’s on her laptop, because that’s a flowing river […]
Ben Jennings offers the best view of what’s going on in Ukraine. Other cartoonists are either showing a bear retreating from the fray, or one vaguely bothered by a small biting animal of some sort. The former approach greatly overstates the balance of force in play, the latter infantilizes a courageous resistance. Jennings hits a […]
It being a day to debate various unclear topics, let’s clear our palates with John Darkow’s straightforward commentary on “legitimate political discourse,” in which he skips all the metaphors and the reductio-ad-absurda and goes straight to the point: There is absolutely no moral world in which what happened on January 6 qualifies as “legitimate political […]
Juxtaposition of the Date (Andy Marlette – Creators) (Walt Handelsman) I remember taking angry phone calls in the newsroom on a December 7 in the early ’90s because we hadn’t acknowledged the date on Page One. It wasn’t my decision: I only got the calls because, as the business writer, I was there before […]
Jeff Stahler (AMS) wins the day for dissenting from the fulsome praise being ladled out for Colin Powell without going too far in the other direction. There is an absolute flood of cartoons mourning his death, and it is a death to be mourned. But let’s not be guilty of reversing Marc Antony’s dictum (okay, […]
I’m feeling old and grumpy, but, thanks to Paul Berge, I feel less alone. I was tempted to do an entire blog entry of Saigon Evacuation cartoons, but he posted this on his page and it satisfies the urge, even if it doesn’t quell the frustration. Some of the more recent variations at least acknowledge that […]
Ed Hall drew this one a few days ago, as the Taliban resurgence was just beginning, and it all fell down about as fast as that. As appropriate a metaphor it is, it’s an ironic one in light of the continuing flood of “evacuating Saigon” cartoons, because, as noted the other day, Afghanistan is not […]
‘The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones.’ — “Julius Caesar” Act 3, scene 2 Several cartoonists did Pearly Gates cartoons about the death of Donald Rumsfeld and more than one took advantage of his infamous “You go to war with the army you have, not the army you […]
(Kevin Kallaugher) (Matt Wuerker – Politico) The State of the Union speech was, indeed, a welcome relief from years past. It began on the East Coast well after the bedtime of anyone who has to be up by 4 am, but I decided to catch the first few minutes, hit record and watch the […]
Over in the Economist, Kal Kallaugher wonders if Europe will ever trust us again, given that she’s got reasons not to. I’m leading with it because yesterday I promised to look into the missile strike against a launch base in Syria, admitting that, given my feelings about our having abandoned our Kurdish allies, I had […]
If we’re going to have a round-up, we might as well start with a round-up, and, besides, any excuse to feature Dog Eats Doug is worthy. I’m not sure anyone as young as Doug would have a fantasy this well planned out, or that kids know anything about cowboys anymore anyway, but I’m also pretty […]