I don’t care a straw for your newspaper articles; my constituents don’t know how to read, but they can’t help seeing them damned pictures. — William M. Tweed, 1875 This NBC poll result was quoted here before, but, then, Tweed’s comment about Thomas Nast has also been quoted and misquoted many places many times. A […]
I’m surprised and a bit disappointed that more political cartoonists in Britain haven’t jumped on Robert Jenrick’s heartless order to paint over and remove welcoming cartoons for refugee kids at processing centers. It’s not simply that Jenrick has no pity on children. He’s apparently not even able to pick them out of the crowd. So […]
Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D-NY) said, “Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but he’s not entitled to his own facts,” a custom more honour’d in the breach than the observance. So we’ll start today with Gary Varvel (Creators)’s cartoon, an attack that has also started popping up on social media, so not simply Varvel’s […]
Jordanian cartoonist Morad Kotkot (Cartoon Movement) asks today’s question: Why is the whole world focused on Ukraine, when it doesn’t seem to pay any attention to other wars? It’s possible to nitpick his choices, given that we started the Iraq war and bailed out on the Syrians and have conflicts of interest that keep us […]
Matt Wuerker (Politico) starts us off with the Big Lie, which is that the 2020 election was fixed. However, that central lie is, like the cloud of smoke he draws, a form of pollution that spreads everywhere. That is, it’s obviously bad that people believe the election was fixed, but the metastasizing evil is all […]
Ann Telnaes (WashPost) on GOP resistance to the hike in the minimum wage, now imperiled by a parliamentarian ruling that it can’t be shoved through in the form of a reconciliation proposal to skirt the so-called filibuster rule. I say so-called because I remember the days when, if you wanted to stall a vote, you […]
Brewster Rockit being set in the distant future, today’s got a chuckle, granted a mordant, dark, very bad chuckle. Well, with, as Gary Varvel notes, editorial cartooning in a state of crisis, we could all use a chuckle. But the people in the newsroom don’t get it, and that’s part of the problem: They’re not […]
Candorville sets the tone for today, and if Lemont and I share a cynical view of society, it’s at least a cynicism based on a sense that we could be a better place if we didn’t simply lack the will. I’ve seen a raft of black hole cartoons with this or that being dragged into […]