Our first conflict was brought forth in part by this morning’s Tank McNamara (AMS) and in part by my having missed the first three weeks of the football season and not feeling all that bad about it. There was a point at which I would agree with the fellow suggesting a three-concussions-and-you’re-out approach, and I […]
Today is a holiday, though it’s another of those American wage-slave holidays where the banks, the schools and the post offices close and everything else goes on as normal. Most of the cartoons acknowledging MLK Day seem pretty bland, but Marc Murphy breaks ranks by making a point, adding on his Facebook page: People think […]
The whole world is watching, and, as Cathy Wilcox notes, they’ve stopped laughing. I can’t speak for Australians, but, from here, it was always a kind of horrified laugh or sometimes, given that we’d elected him, an embarrassed laugh. But the laughter is dying down, as she notes, because he’s gone from being a buffoon […]
I don’t know if today’s Non Sequitur (AMS) counts as “fortuitous” timing, since nobody in Vermont or the lower Hudson Valley is calling much of anything “lucky” at the moment, but there’s certainly a load of synchronicity in it, since I’m sure Wiley did the strip some time ago but today a lot of people […]
Ann Telnaes lays out the real situation for anyone who thought Dobbs was a single movement. People who predicted that it was only the first shot of a war on women were neither paranoid nor hysterical. They were right, as subsequent tightening of the laws against women’s personal autonomy has shown. Clay Bennett (CTFP) is […]
Jen Sorensen describes the lack of actual, principled ideas in our current world, an example of sarcasm in defense of freedom, which should be the purpose of editorial cartooning, though we also see it used for just the opposite purpose: To reinforce prejudice and paranoia. Drew Sheneman (Tribune) echoes her argument, but is more […]
REMINDER TO CARTOONISTS: There are still three or four of you who have not yet drawn your cartoon of the Olympic Rings supplanted by the coronavirus. Please submit them before the Games have ended. Meanwhile, Michael Ramirez (Creators) cuts to the chase, or such chase as there is. Cities vie to host the Olympics and […]
Ward Sutton admits he drew this some time ago and it languished in the files at the NYTimes Review of Books until this week, but even if the concept is evergreen, I’d call the application of it now timely. Not that I look to the NYTimes for intelligent analysis of graphic commentary. I don’t boycott […]
Rob Rogers offers a response to the “Cancel Culture” kerfuffle, but in these times, it’s really hard to tell a joke without reflecting something real. Donald Trump has begun issuing position papers and people on social media argue that nobody should post or share them because it gives him the attention he craves. There’s some […]
Mike Peters might want to resurrect this 1973 cartoon, now that we have found peace in Afghanistan. That link includes the text of the agreement between the US and “the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan which is not recognized by the United States as a state and is known as the Taliban.” Which terminology I guess […]
Tom Tomorrow scores in a time when it’s hard to make more than one valid argument, never mind popping off nine of them. Most of the multi-panel commentators at the moment seem to start well and then either fade to pointlessness or wander off into delusional conspiracy theories. Granted, there are prolific one-panel cartoonists who […]
Scott Stantis unintentionally wraps up how I’m feeling about social media specifically and the body politic generally. His intention is almost certainly a “What if?” by which I mean that, when he posted this at Twitter, he commented So this president has taken to coddling and pardoning war criminals. Just when you thought this administration […]
The idea that everyone was glued to the hearings is a bit fanciful, though somebody posted a photo taken on an airplane where all the screens were playing the same thing despite the choices available, including the choice of nothing at all. However, the laundromat TV was tuned to a comedy when I put in […]
Graeme MacKay comments on an interesting and instructive story most Americans probably hadn’t heard about. Seems a Canadian company sold about 2,500 tons of what was supposed to be recyclable plastic to a company in the Philippines. However, when the shipping containers arrived, they proved to be full of household waste in addition to the […]
I saw Ann Telnaes‘ latest last night and wished she’d done it a day earlier, since it would have fit yesterday’s rant so well. And then I realized, this isn’t going out of style and it’s not like we’re not going to have this conversation over and over. The people who bet on Maximum Security […]