It seems a fairly new YouTube uploader is taking cartoonists’ original cartoons, “re-imagining” (read: swiping) them through the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI), and then passing them off as their own. Pedro X. Molina noted and provided samples: I found this online and thought you might find it interesting. I have no problem with the ethical […]
First, some context: Roosevelt was elected in the midst of the Great Depression, and, in the opening paragraph of his first inaugural speech, he laid out the nation’s real challenge: This is preeminently the time to speak the truth, the whole truth, frankly and boldly. Nor need we shrink from honestly facing conditions in our […]
Among the many things to be pondered as we approach 100 Days since inauguration is whether the First Couple even talk to each other. Melania, who varies her housing among New York, Palm Beach and the White House, was elegantly and appropriately dressed for the Pope’s funeral, while Donald stood out nearly as much as […]
News with Doug MacGregor, Charlie Daniel and Brad Boring and the SEC-NCS, David G. Brown, Pat Bagley, and a fact check on a viral Trump-Xi tariff cartoon. Doug MacGregor Doug MacGregor has been an editorial cartoonist for more than 40 years. He got his professional start at the Norwich Bulletin in eastern Connecticut in 1980. […]
Let’s start with the low-hanging fruit before we tackle more complex issues. Dear Leader has had another physical, and, while Telnaes suggests that you never know what you’re going to find when you look under the hood, we have once again heard nothing but good news. Unlike the Great Alphonse Capone, he’s apparently not syphilitic, […]
Jen Sorensen gets more out of four panels than anyone else in the business, and this gut-clencher is as accurate a portrait of the moment as you’re likely to see. Life does go on. Life has to go on. But the veneer of normalcy is wearing thin. At the dog park, we talk about an […]
This isn’t China, though Bagley is right to compare the cult of personality that has risen around Donald Trump with the one that rose around Mao Tse Tung. Certainly, the two cults, the two revolutions, share several elements, including the condemnation of intellectual elites in favor of mindless loyalty and the elevation of mindless loyalty […]
Lucky timing from RAM: This strip ran the morning after Dear Leader announced the tariffs, before the markets could react — Trump had delayed his announcement until after closing — and so was drawn even earlier than that. The markets were already shaky, but nowhere approaching the thundering crash we’re still experiencing, thanks to the […]
We’ll start the rundown with a portrait of world leaders by David Rowe, with Donald Trump in the center and his babysitter at his feet. You may notice that it’s not a terribly flattering portrayal, but if you look around the world, you’ll find there aren’t a great many flattering portraits of Dear Leader. Much […]
I like First Dog’s observation “It is so bad they are even doing ICE things to white people.” After all, Trump began his war on foreign folks by attempting to ban all Muslims from entering the country and by condemning Latinos with “They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists. And some, I assume, are […]
I was planning to use Sheneman’s cartoon this morning for a rant about defeatism and how cartoonists are running up a white flag with cartoons about feckless Democrats when GOP majorities in both houses give them no real leverage. But then there was an opening, and Senate Democrats were poised to vote against cloture and […]
I’m tempted to invite you to read Joel Pett’s cartoon, thank you for coming and remind you to tip your waitress, because he manages to pack an awful lot of current events into his piece, with greedy billionaires and without a lot of exaggeration or irony to puzzle the reader. Obviously, they’re not this direct, […]
Walt Handelsman sums it up: The demolition crew is here to begin taking apart America. It may be metaphorical, but it’s not theoretical: Trump has already begun spinning and, to use an old phrase from Jonathan Swift’s era, “to say the thing that is not.” To accuse him of lying requires reading his mind. But […]
Pat Bagley expresses the situation well: As firefighters struggle to control the wildfires in Southern California, the press also struggles with disinformation about those wildfires. The press wouldn’t be stuck with a mere squirtbottle if the only problem they faced were the normal flow of rumors and misconceptions that plague every major news event. But […]
Garth German makes a good point, though I suspect he’s too late and we can’t reverse the process now. Here’s a relevant quote from Herman Wouk in the Caine Mutiny: The Navy is a master plan designed by geniuses for execution by idiots. If you are not an idiot, but find yourself in the Navy, you […]