There is such a thing has having too much good material, and while Pat Bagley was able to squeeze in seven examples of supremely unqualified Trump appointees, cartoonists strain to keep up. Like a magician pulling rabbits from a hat, just when you think there can’t possibly be another in there and that there’s no […]
Time Person of the Year cartoons are piling up, as are social media posts pointing out that Adolph Hitler also made the cut, but I think Dave Granlund hit the combo with this collection of Dubious Heroes. Though he missed this one from 1979. It’s not intended as an honor. It’s supposed to reflect the […]
I suspect Biden’s decision to let Ukraine fire US-supplied missiles over its border, and his decision to supply the Ukrainians with anti-personnel mines, were an effort to shore up their defenses before Trump comes into office and begins catering to his great good friend Putin. He may well choke off their aid, but it would […]
Rabbits Against Magic addresses a current Sophomore-Dorm-At-2-AM plan with the only way this silly idea might be worthwhile. There seem to be a lot of SD@2 plans floating around on social media, and as much as I appreciate idealistic concepts, and as much as I favored lowering the voting age to 18, there are times […]
Michael deAdder Ben Garrison We won’t get through all the emerging political cartoons about the election today, but here are the bookends: de Adder sees it as the monster returning, referencing Poltergeist, the 1982 horror film about a gateway opening up to the other side, while Garrison cites the Magnificent Seven, in which a group […]
While we wait for Tuesday, how about a break to look at some other things happening in the world? Glenn Fleishman has released How Comics Were Made, a Kickstarter-funded in-depth look at production through the years. It’s a beautiful book and, while it’s pricey at $73 in print, it’s also 280 pages deep and well […]
Pearls Before Swine (AMS) offers a yes-but-no discussion of our situation. There certainly are a lot of people siloed in their own little belief centers, and that’s a problem in a democratic system where people are supposed to make informed decisions. But there is such a thing as truth, and there is such a thing […]
Ann Telnaes shares the ebullience flowing out of the DNC, adding a dash of feminine pride to the contrast between joyous celebration and the sourpuss dread driving the GOP campaign. And she’s not wrong to show Justice and Liberty as boosters for Harris, given that we’ve seen Justice denied amid a flurry of hostility directed […]
Guy Parsons is being somewhat cynical here, but that’s not to say he’s wrong. There was a time, O Best Beloved, when people who loved the Earth recoiled from milk in plastic jugs, preferring to pick up the glass bottles that had to be brought back to the store. In fact, we were going to […]
Eric Allie (Counterpoint) promotes “they,” the imaginary political scapegoat currently being used to exploit the attempted assassination of Donald Trump. It might have been a reasonable guess in the early going, but it’s increasingly obvious that there is no “they” and that Thomas Crook was no more a political operative than Lynnette Fromme. In fact, […]
I will confess that my appreciation of RJ Matson’s cartoon is tainted by my lack of knowledge about donkeys. I know they have a reputation for being stubborn and my understanding is that it is well-earned. However, I have some knowledge of horses, and I know that if you face a horse and pull on […]
Mike Smith (KFS) begins things by expressing doubt that tonight’s debate will change any votes, and he may be right, not because it won’t be a chance to evaluate the candidates head-to-head but because the people who watch will likely be the people who have already been paying attention. Lisa Benson (Counterpoint) makes much the […]
I’m starting by disagreeing with Paul Berge, but I’ll soften it by linking to his essay on this cartoon where he discusses the sexist comments that have drawn the most attention, while also delving into Harrison Butker’s homophobia and transphobia as well as his defense of antiSemitism. My problem is that his objections repeat a […]
I got a chuckle out of John Auchter’s cartoon, though he’s being a bit of an Upper Peninsula snob, if such a thing could exist. (Be glad I didn’t run this at the end and pair it with The Second Week of Deer Camp.) He’s right that those who live near the Canadian border, as […]
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 […]