Juxtaposition of the Day (Andy Marlette) (Drew Litton – AMS) The deaths of Nichelle Nichols and Bill Russell may leave me without a lot of material to work with over the next little while, since their obituary cartoons seem a large portion of everybody’s current production. I’m not much on obituary cartoons, and most […]
Let’s start with some good news and a laugh, as RJ Matson notes the emergence of forged elector ballots, and we learn that the January 6 Committee has subpoenaed Rudy Giuliani and several others connected to the attempt. It’s not the White House tapes in which we heard Nixon actively plotting to pay off the […]
My initial response to Clay Bennett (CTFP)’s cartoon is not “maybe it’s me” but “yeah, it’s definitely me.” I was thinking that because you can declare an Ace to be 1, he still had a straight flush, J-Q-K-1-2. I’m less embarrassed by thinking a flush could — how you say? — go around the corner, […]
John Cole shows both reactions to Biden’s press conference. He gets the time wrong: It was just under two hours, hardly four, but still a prodigious effort. The dual response, I think, is between those who did the assigned homework — who watched the conference and judged it for themselves — and those who fake […]
We’ll start out with some good news, via Steve Brodner: Not only did the Kellogg’s workers ratify a new contract, but it seems like they got pretty much what they wanted and that management — who had threatened to replace them with scabs — got pretty much not a whole lot except several months of […]
Clay Jones takes a poke at cartoonists who have drawn Joe Manchin as the Grinch, and I’m happy to pass it on because I didn’t really want to do an entire posting of Grinch/Manchin cartoons. Several Grinch cartoons had appeared before the current flood of Manchin cartoons, and it’s not surprising, given how the Grinch […]
There have been a lot of cartoons about Joe Manchin and coal this holiday season, including this piece from Jeff Danziger (WPWG), which dropped on Friday, before he made his stunning announcement that he would not support the Build Back Better proposal. The “lump of coal” motif is so common this time of year that […]
Matt Wuerker (Politico) illustrates the words of Ralph Waldo Emerson, that “a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.” Emerson encouraged inconsistency, recommending that you “Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict […]
Graeme MacKay starts us out easy, with a supply chain gag that, for some reason, doesn’t depict a broken chain with some politician in the middle, hanging on by the broken ends. Perhaps he didn’t get the memo. However, he hit me at the right moment, because I bought my Halloween candy the other […]
John Auchter states one of our major problems, though he’s being a bit unfair about it. He’s right that we have at best a tenuous grip on math and a firm prejudice towards believing what we want to believe. One of the more popular social media posts is when the poster states that they’ve never […]
Paresh Nath (Cartoon Arts Int’l) posted this cartoon before the elections in Iran, but that’s an irrelevant detail, since everyone already knew the results before the elections took place. He may have been taking artistic advantage of the term being used in Iran, that the election was “engineered” by the hardliners of the Guardian Council. […]
Dave Granlund posted this, appropriately, on Flag Day, which meant I’d already filed by the time I saw it. But it applies throughout the year, so here it is on Day After Flag Day. There is no law against wearing apparel that looks like the flag, according to the American Legion, as long as it […]
Sometimes, as discussed here yesterday, you can be too smart for the room, and that doesn’t necessarily require making jokes about the Brontë Sisters. My first response to this Prickly City (UFS) was to shrug it off, but, while it is obvious, it is also compact and concise. Granted, depicting Trump as a skunk is […]
Ann Telnaes is hardly the only cartoonist to show people — particularly Republican politicians — wearing their covid masks over their eyes, but she does some of the best caricatures in the business and keeps up with Who’s Who in Washington. And she doesn’t insult your intelligence with labels. She assumes you keep up with […]
Suddenly, there’s a lot going on, so we’ll let Tom Tomorrow start us off with the equivalent of the five-minute NPR news wrap-up at the top of the hour before we dig into any details. The bland-restatement format used in This Modern World and some other altie comics tends to fall flat in good times […]