We’ll start at the beginning, with Dick Wright digging into the History Bag for a traditional metaphor in support of Dear Leader’s lies about immigrants. Certainly you’ve seen similar cartoons, this one coming from a Viennese newspaper in 1938, celebrating Germany getting rid of its rats with a “Germany for Germans” policy, while other, more […]
Tough decision where to start today, but I think Ben Jennings has the best viewpoint, which is shame on the process and shame on those who utilize it. But it’s not a “both sides” argument, because, even in Jennings’ parallel construction, Biden looks downcast and Trump appears arrogant. Granted, part of that could be because […]
Mr. Boffo often uses the term “unclear on the concept” in portraying a character who genuinely just doesn’t get it. Joe Martin should have used it today, because the term “mailman” disappeared a couple of decades ago, and the majority of actors under 40 use the term “actor” regardless of sex, just as nobody says […]
Jen Sorensen skips the clever rhetoric and metaphors and gets right to the point: Tuesday is going to tell the story. There are any number of cartoons out there about how sick everyone is of political advertisements and arguments, and I’m sympathetic, but that’s how the system works, or at least that’s how it’s supposed […]
Note: One of my father’s favorite expressions was “If you don’t want to know the answer, don’t ask the rebbi.” This would be an excellent day to skip reading if you don’t want to know. Rob Rogers brings up a matter you’re not supposed to bring up, which makes me wonder if any newspapers will […]
Gary Varvel (Creators) offers a sensible if not groundbreaking reminder that democracy belongs to the voters. Such messages don’t need to plow a whole lot of new ground, but they have value, particularly in a bizarre world in which people are being urged to distrust the system. We’ve seen school budgets get shot down by […]
After an absence of three days, I expected to have to catch up with things this morning, but I didn’t expect to walk in on this Juxtaposition Without Justification Lisa Benson — Counterpoint Dana Summers — Tribune Mike Lester — AMS Bob Gorrell — Creators I was too busy at the combined American/Canadian editorial cartoonists’ […]
Welcome to Montreal, home of Westmount High, alma mater of Kamala Harris, who, as Terry Mosher (Aislin) reminded us, lived here for a few years when her mother was a professor at McGill. There will be a lot of graphics today, so the prose will be sparse, and note that a lot was shot at […]
Nick Anderson (Tribune) salutes the 118th Congress, one of the least productive congresses in history, as it disbands to go home and run for office based on having done little but squabble and preen. They’ll be gone until after the election, which won’t make much of a difference to the nation, since I’m quite sure […]
Israel’s attack on Hezbollah through booby-trapped pagers and phones has unleashed such a flood of political cartoons that it’s hard to choose a reasonable number and then to decide where to start. But Peter Brookes lays out something of an overview in this progression of our ability to kill one another. As it happens, he […]
Sometimes the view from a distance is clearer. David Rowe, watching the latest scandalous behavior from Dear Leader and his disciple, declares them to be digging their own political grave while Harris and Walz need only watch them self-destruct. There’s plenty of reason to assume it, and to assume that, if nothing else, they’d obey […]
Nick Anderson (Tribune) gently transitions us from two days of comedy to a day of politics. It’s appropriate, because RFK Jr, as it happens, seems to be a 2:1 mix of comedy and politics, in the same way that a (real) martini is a 2:1 mix of gin and vermouth, except that a lot of […]
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 […]
Joel Pett (Tribune) both announces the upcoming presidential debates and does a good job of defining the stakes in the coming election. A major issue over the past several years has been that the explosion of media has not simply offered people a variety of approaches to the news but has allowed them to avoid […]
Rob Rogers (Tinyview) sets up today’s topic: If nobody knows that it happened, did it? And, if it didn’t happen, how could it matter? That fourth panel has gone from horror to comic relief as Noem attempts to move forward while backpedaling furiously. She’s gone from being proud of shooting a puppy, a goat and […]