CSotD: Post-Weekend Update
Most Easter and April Fools Day cartoons were mayflies, good for a moment but with no real shelf life. But…
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CSotD: TikTok Timeout?
I gather, from the flood of cartoons on the topic, that I’m the only person in America who doesn’t watch…
CSotD: Perhaps the end of the beginning
I gather Joe Heller is taking no pride in the coming elections, but he seems terribly cynical. It’s true that…
CSotD: Same Song, Same Dance, Same Deaths
Letting Dave Whamond lead off, despite a couple of hesitations. One is about the connection between the shooting and football,…
CSotD: The “Say What?” Files
Chip Bok (Creators) starts us off with a “Say what?” in which he contends that justices are not placed on…
CSotD: Mistaken Identities, Perverted Ideals
Bill Bramhall marks the descent of Rudy Giuliani from “America’s Mayor” to a ridiculous — and now heavily fined —…
CSotD: Commentary in Context
Humor specifically and cartoon commentary in general require context. The context of Paul Fell‘s cartoon is immediately clear to anyone…
CSotD: Juxtapalooza!
Matt Davies Clay Jones By now you’ve heard that Time magazine has named Taylor Swift its Person of the Year,…
CSotD: Say what?
When the little newspaper on Long Island revealed the cascade of lies under which George Santos was elected, it touched…
CSotD: Asymmetric Commentary, Asymmetric War
Zapiro speaks for a large number of cartoonists as they struggle to find something that is both fair and penetrating…
CSotD: AAEC in SF 2 – Marketing and Mattering
Is this a political cartoon? Steve Brodner thinks so, and said so, at the American Association of Editorial Cartoonists convention…
CSotD: The Company We Choose
It was the Pig Fair last SeptemberA day I well rememberI was walking up and down in drunken prideWhen my…
CSotD: Spin, lies and foolish errors
Sometimes it’s easy to call out a cartoonist. In this case, given that, in his profile statement at Counterpoint, Mike…
CSotD: Complaining with our mouths full
Harry Burton offers one of a surprisingly few cartoon takes on Donald Trump’s mugshot, but I think he gets it…
CSotD: A Crisis of Politeness
On the topic of things you shouldn’t have to be told, Gary Varvel (Creators) depicts a kid gleefully heading off…