The observation in this Jeff Stahler cartoon would be obvious any other time, but it’s important at the moment. Evaluating it depends on whether you consider everyone having a voice an example of equality or one of leveling, because when the greatest wisdom is placed next to the greatest folly, it puts quite a burden […]
Start with the good news, which is that I agree with Dave Granlund’s idea though not with the sense of crisis it suggests. That is, kids shouldn’t get drunk and drive around, but while you can’t stop all of them from doing it, it’s not the issue it was when I graduated (gasp) 57 years […]
Prickly City (AMS) reiterates the high-minded, analytical approach familiar to grade-school alumni: “I know you are, but what am I?” Trump having been seen dozing off while he was on trial, the response is to declare that Biden dozes off all the time. It’s not the only example, particularly if you plumb the depths of […]
Sometimes a person makes an innocent mistake, sometimes someone tells a deliberate lie. Most times, the effect is the same either way, but if what conservative Christians say of the Final Judgement is true, intentions matter. So we’ll start with the twisted view of religion laid out by Mike Luckovich: It is impossible to venture […]
Joel Pett (Tribune) both announces the upcoming presidential debates and does a good job of defining the stakes in the coming election. A major issue over the past several years has been that the explosion of media has not simply offered people a variety of approaches to the news but has allowed them to avoid […]
Harley Schwadron speaks for me, because there is a flood of topics being cartooned about at the moment and my desperation is in trying to cover the ones that won’t keep, combined with the prospects of a drought if I cover them all today and nothing surfaces for tomorrow. My desperation, though, is never quiet. […]
Gonna start off with this one because, first of all, the garish colors are not only appropriate given the subject matter but also because the lack of specificity adds to its appeal. It’s by Steve Bright, aka Brighty, who is a Scot. That’s not relevant to the point of the cartoon except to provide a […]
Lisa Benson (Counterpoint) sums up the situation as we head into the weekend: Trump has a major debt hanging over his head and no comfortable way to pay it. To be accurate, it’s not $454 million that he’s got to raise. When you add in the cost of the bond, or, as the fellows he […]
Kal Kallaugher offers an antidote of sorts to all the polling and panic, pointing out that party members barely make up half of voters. (Gallup says 27% Democrat, 25% Republican, 45% independent, presumably with some rounding.) He emphasizes his point not just by having the fellow bang on the ceiling, but by referring to “the […]
Jack Ohman plays with the Nativity story to illustrate the plight of the poor and homeless in San Francisco. It’s nicely played, though, of course, he’s hardly the first cartoonist to make the comparison. But his multi-panel approach really pays off, adding detail and frustration to a common plaint. One way to differentiate among these […]
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 […]
Tim Campbell (Counterpoint) may be urging voters to make good choices, but, as noted here the other day, clarity matters, and this could easily be interpreted as a variation on “Don’t vote. It only encourages them,” which was witty when Scottish comedian Billy Connolly first said it. But we had more space for cynicism a […]
Timing matters, and Lee Judge (KFS) offered this cartoon yesterday. That, plus the elephants, indicates that he meant the metaphorical war in the Capitol, not the actual shooting war that has once again burst out, this time in Maine, but which was too late to be part of his consideration. But the question applies there, […]
Zapiro speaks for a large number of cartoonists as they struggle to find something that is both fair and penetrating to say about the bloodbath going on in Israel and Gaza, with the additional burden of knowing that anything of any substance will — intentionally or not — be misinterpreted by a portion of your […]
(photo: NBC) With all due respect, they got it wrong. When Cheers was taken over by a corporation, they brought in Rebecca Howe and she was the boss and eventually Sam bought the bar back and he was back in charge. Well, it was a comedy after all. In the real world, as in the […]