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 […]
St. Olga’s feast day is July 11, but given who she was and what she did, St. Patrick should yield his day to her this year. Ukraine’s patron saint is Josaphat, a Ukrainian monk who yielded himself up to be killed by a Russian mob, but we’re not celebrating meekness at the moment. Olga is […]
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 […]
For some reason, I didn’t see a lot of “bear trap in the fireplace” gags this year. Which is a good thing, I would add. However, Monty (AMS) put a spin on that tired old chestnut, and there’s nothing I love more than watching Sedgewick try to be a real boy, while his patient butler, […]
Joel Pett lays out the litany of hate Americans are exposed to on a regular basis and ends by portraying one of the innocent victims of this toxic bile. I can’t be the only person who has so curated his social media and learned to avoid hatemongering broadcasters that I’m not bombarded with this garbage, […]
Suddenly, there’s a lot going on, so we’ll let Tom Tomorrow start us off with the equivalent of the five-minute NPR news wrap-up at the top of the hour before we dig into any details. The bland-restatement format used in This Modern World and some other altie comics tends to fall flat in good times […]
Bill Bramhall (NYDN) captures the moment by contrasting FDR’s first inaugural call for national unity with the current GOPs determination to maintain division. First of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is…fear itself — nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into […]
There have been some churches featured on Facebook and Twitter that have caged the Baby Jesus in their nativity sets, and I like Mike Luckovich‘s version of the concept. But lest we forget, this idea has Scriptural relevance: And when they were departed, behold, the angel of the Lord appeareth to Joseph in a dream, […]
From a strictly artistic point of view, the father-and-daughter image has been done enough. From a political point of view, it can’t be, and Tom Toles offers an effective, if somewhat didactic, variation. But he’s right: They were killed by heartless, feckless bureaucracy. They had gone to a port of entry to apply for amnesty […]
Mark Streeter sums up the Mueller Report rather well, including that there was plenty of circumstantial evidence but nothing that absolutely tied the President into the Russian interference, except as a beneficiary. He’s right, and, while there is sentiment for getting Mueller in front of Congress to testify, I’m not hearing a lot of credible […]
It’s odd — not funny, mostly just odd — that this Thimble Theater from August, 1935, happens to turn up on the Comics Kingdom Vintage page at the same time Virginia Governor Ralph Northam’s med school yearbook page happened to turn up, showing that he had chosen a photo showing a person in blackface and […]
We’ll start easy today, with a bit of trivia sparked by the current Vintage Radio Patrol, from November, 1948. In the strip — which, by the way, I read for its camp value — the criminals have taken over a legitimate used car lot and are re-selling stolen vehicles. It would be another six years […]
Okay, I recognize the cartoon character in this one, and I’m inclined to agree with Bill Day that the damage done is pretty negligible. However, a lot of that is due to the overlap with the revelations in Bob Woodward’s book, which comes out tomorrow but was excerpted and discussed in the Washington Post the […]