Ann Telnaes notes some bad news coming out of Afghanistan, as the Taliban shows how empty its promises of respecting women turned out to be. She does well to point out the dismal situation, but there’s a question as to whether it qualifies as news, since it seems to fall under the category of “What […]
Mike Lester (AMC) continues to press the rightwing fantasy that Critical Race Theory is taught in elementary schools, when, as a formal inquiry, it is generally confined to collegiate graduate courses. However, he hits on an element that I agree with, not about the real CRT as practiced by serious historians, but in how it’s […]
According to this Steve Kelley (Creators) cartoon, vaccinated people who wear masks are showing off how caring and thoughtful they are. I got into a conversation about “Virtue Signaling” and “Social Justice Warriors” the other day, with someone who felt it was wrong to suggest that some people are showing off. Well, some people are […]
There’s a lot to be said for simplicity, and Bruce Plante scores with a cartoon that tells the story and thereby sets the scene for today. The verdict came in so late in the day that it likely sent cartoonists scrambling to their drawing boards, though it’s common, on the eve of an election or […]
This Steve Kelley (Creators) comic provoked some back-and-forth on Facebook, and let me start off by giving Kelley props for responding. Too many cartoonists set up Facebook and Twitter pages and then leave them untended. Either join the conversation or, if all you want is publicity, buy an ad. But here’s what matters, and it […]
I’m going to let John Branch (KFS) stand in for a lot less honest, or less accurate, commentators, because his piece is both clever and, I think, accurate. Westerners are used to seeing those pumps constantly going up and down on the plains, but I heard them likened to grasshoppers early enough that I didn’t […]
Apparently, Minnesota is where we’re at in New Hampshire, because this Steve Sack (Star-Tribune) cartoon pretty much sums up our world, too. Despite the horrors that surround us politically and socially, the leaves are lovely, which is almost, as the fellow here says, enough to send you into an Anne Frankian optimistic view of most […]
Start with this rueful chuckle from Clay Bennett, which is as close to a laugh as you’ll get these days, even if you have an appetite for gallows humor. Policy proposals and political leanings aside, if you watched any part of the two townhalls this past week, you saw one candidate handle himself smoothly and […]
Kal Kallaugher captures the current situation, in which Dear Leader feigns bravery by boldly confronting a strawman to the applause of his followers. It does little good to argue whether his accusations are right or wrong or if they make any sense at all, because we’ve shot past the phase where Big Lies were challengeable. […]
I’m giving JD Crowe top billing because less is more and he kept it plain, but managed to sweep in what happened and why it matters. He didn’t swap in the Statue of Liberty or the Statue of Justice or otherwise adorn a scene that speaks for itself, nor did he ask an obvious rhetorical […]
Nick Anderson captures the moment, and I would add that not only has Facebook (and Twitter, for that matter) become a seething cauldron of coronavirus stupidity but seems to be ramping up the political idiocy as well. And while I chuckle, too, at all the cartoonists saying they’ve practiced social isolation all their lives, part […]
John Branch starts us off with a political laugh. Trump’s standard defense is “I don’t know the guy,” which means that, if you rob a bank, the police should only interview witnesses you’ve had lunch with. I know politicians who pride themselves on the number of people they know, and even cheat the number up. […]
Ann Telnaes continues to draw the committee as it works and her array provides a nice precis of the day’s events, which is handy for viewers and ought to be intimidating for other cartoonists, since, while a lot of cartoonists can put out multiple sketches of an event, her half-dozen are each about one step […]
John Branch provides a welcome alternative to the flood of Emma Lazarus re-writes currently flooding the editorial cartooning pool. I’m not sure that the best cartoons are wordless, but it’s not a theory I’d argue against, either. The Emma Lazarus knock-offs are at a disadvantage anyway, because, while most people are familiar with more or […]
I really puzzled over which of several cartoons on the topic to lead with, but Tom Toles puts it on the line: Despite having only been a Republican for a few weeks before running for President on their ticket, Trump has since been welcomed in, sheltered and protected by a silence that can only be […]