When I first saw Nick Anderson (Tribune)‘s latest, I thought it was another slightly-late Thanksgiving piece, since it seemed half the cartoons yesterday depicted people gathered around a spread board, and half the cartoons today seem like Thanksgiving gags that should have run yesterday. However, he offers a solid hit on Trump’s War Against Fairness, […]
Probably should have run this Jen Sorensen piece yesterday with Bob Englehart’s commentary on silos, but her point is more nuanced, because she addresses the issue of the rightwing silo in connection with attempts to explain why the left’s message wasn’t heard. That first panel echoes the transformation in The Brainwashing of My Dad, which […]
Christopher Downes offers some laughs as the Trump administration begins to take shape, but his exaggerations are well grounded. Trump truly is advancing Christian nationalism despite having no real sense of what’s in the Bible. He went to church as a kid, but the Trumps were congregants of Norman Vincent Peale, who wrote The Power […]
Mr. Boffo often uses the term “unclear on the concept” in portraying a character who genuinely just doesn’t get it. Joe Martin should have used it today, because the term “mailman” disappeared a couple of decades ago, and the majority of actors under 40 use the term “actor” regardless of sex, just as nobody says […]
I wasn’t sure who to start with this morning, so I decided to move the video to the top of the posting and start with the Rock Man from the Point!, whom I quote fairly often: “You see what you want to see, and you hear what you want to hear.” You can catch his […]
Not sure Fiona Katauskas is being terribly helpful with this cartoon, but it’s at least comforting to know that all the low-information nitwits are not segregated into the United States, and that, if they’re also in Australia, they’re probably everywhere. Which isn’t helpful because we still have to deal with ours, but it’s also not […]
After an absence of three days, I expected to have to catch up with things this morning, but I didn’t expect to walk in on this Juxtaposition Without Justification Lisa Benson — Counterpoint Dana Summers — Tribune Mike Lester — AMS Bob Gorrell — Creators I was too busy at the combined American/Canadian editorial cartoonists’ […]
I’m not buying what the woman in this Phil Hands cartoon is selling. She may be busy, but being too busy to keep up with politics in a presidential election year is just silly. It’s like saying you were too busy to notice three feet of snow in your driveway. And it only snows a […]
Scott Stantis isn’t the only media person upset because Kamala Harris isn’t playing the game right, though it should be noted that he’s not one of the celebrity journalists who aren’t getting proper respect. Still, he’s right: She hasn’t made the usual rounds that aspiring politicians are expected to make, and as a result a […]
There isn’t much doubt as to how the debate went: See Ann Telnaes’ animated original here as Donald Trump self-destructed while Kamala Harris looked on. The blame continues to be discussed, however, in a flood of cartoons and memes and wisecracks and serious commentary. RJ Matson poses it as a disaster for the Republican Party, […]
Ann Telnaes combines her anguish over the crackdown on women’s rights under the reconstituted Afghan government with her fury over the assault on women’s rights and dignity by JD Vance and his misogynistic followers. Don’t say “It can’t happen here,” because it’s already happening here with the overturning of Roe v Wade, cutbacks to freedom […]
Lisa Benson — Counterpoint Mike Lester — AMS Oh, somewhere in this favored land the sun is shining bright,The band is playing somewhere, and somewhere hearts are light;And somewhere men are laughing, and somewhere children shout,But there is no joy in Mudville— Donald Trump is striking out. Make no mistake: Trump has not struck out […]
A substantial portion of the public really likes Kamala Harris, but, as Phil Hands notes, the press is losing patience. Having posed the question of how she can make up for lost time with the elections so close, they aren’t very happy with her answer of taking her message directly to the public instead of […]
There have been a number of chicken jokes about Trump backing out of his agreed-upon September 10 debate, but I like Adam Zyglis’s use of the “Cowardly Lyin’,” because he combines Trump’s unwillingness to step into the ring with a solid contender with his dishonesty in explaining his refusal. Trump claims that he won’t debate […]
Dr. MacLeod offers the best cartoon take on yesterday’s appearance by Donald Trump at the annual convention of the National Association of Black Journalists, which has been called both a “Dumpster fire” and a “train wreck” by the press as well as on social media. Oliver Darcy has a nice wrap-up of the coverage at […]