Nick Anderson makes an interesting observation: There has been a constant drumroll from the right publicizing the idea that the border is open. Maybe that encouraged more people to try, despite the Obama administration’s publicity warning them that it was too dangerous and unlikely to succeed. I’m not convinced either stands up to much scrutiny. […]
We’ll let Joy of Tech introduce today’s topic, which is about a new app that millions of people have signed up for and that nobody likes. I can be neutral about Threads for the moment, since I’m a desktop guy and it’s only available for telephone people, and preferably those with Instagram accounts, which lets […]
Ted Rall (Counterpoint) asks a reasonable question, but one for which there is a reasonable answer: You must crawl before you can walk. A major reason there are only two major political parties in the US is that everyone swings for the fences and nobody wants to score on singles. At the risk of using […]
Michael Ramirez (Creators) paints as good a picture of our current situation as anyone. He’s not the first political cartoonist to depict Moses coming down from Mt Sinai to find his people in a state of idolatry, but he is more explicit in labeling their idol as conspiracies and bull and tying the delusion into […]
Here’s the problem: It’s becoming hard for political cartoonists to satirize our situation, because our situation is beginning to feel like satire itself. So Ruben Bolling lays out a mocking synopsis of how foolish people reject science, common sense and civic decency, and it feels more like a documentary than biting commentary. A very well-crafted […]
Since DDDegg has done an excellent mop-up of the Pulitzer fiasco, I’m going purely for comedy today, leading off with this Super-Fun-Comix-Pak (AMS) strip, by Ken Fisher or Ruben Bolling or somebody. Irving Kristol — Bill’s dad — defined a neoconservative as a liberal who got mugged, and now Bolling certainly understands what it’s like […]
Well, I stand by yesterday’s post, and I’m glad that it — and JP Trostle’s “epic rant” — got said before Columbia University and their Pulitzer Committee delivered that stunning mean-girl snub because otherwise it might sound like sour grapes. As I wrote then The Pulitzers do reward good work. But they’re still just […]
We’ll end the week with a bit of politics, as Gary Clement (Cartoon Arts) hits with one of the first cartoons to shift from war to cease-fire in the Middle East. I found it particularly interesting because I stumbled onto the press conference the White House scheduled with the President Biden and South Korean President […]
I noted yesterday that I could have done a full day of nothing but “Ted Cruz in Mexico” cartoons, and, as it turns out, I’d have still had enough left over to do it again today. Someone complained that people are forgetting the far more significant horrible things he’s done and maybe so, but I […]
Morten Morland (Times) offers this commentary tying in the coronavirus vaccine with the heroic but somewhat inexplicable return of Victor (ed. No, Alexei) Navalny to Russia, which — in case you hadn’t heard — has touched off massive, nationwide demonstrations in support of him and against Putin’s oligarchy. “Inexplicable” in the first place because Putin […]
I’ve held this Mike Thompson piece longer than I like to, but I’m going to use it now because it illustrates, perhaps by what it isn’t, a factor in much of what’s going on. Which is to say that I like it because of its depiction of AOC’s cheerful, stress-free, total obliteration of a bullying […]
Tom Toles leads off today with the central issue our country is facing: Donald Trump and his minions are promoting a cult of personality. For those who only know the term through rock music, “Cult of Personality” emerged as a political term in 1956, when Nikita Khruschev took power in the USSR and began attempting […]
Matt Wuerker suggests what we have to fear, though not only do we have to fear fear itself, but we also have to fear not fearing enough. It’s a particular challenge for cartoonists because commenting on the fear shouldn’t negate the need to be reasonably and sensibly cautious. It doesn’t help that Dear Leader […]
Willie is not unlike Ralph Kramden, in that he is a fool in the classic sense and thus, no matter how ridiculous his antics, you can’t help identifying with him. And the classic fool often speaks truth, as in today’s Willie & Ethel, because much of what we know about the CIA, we know from […]
I’ve seen about half a dozen Carol Channing obituary cartoons, which sent me to IMBD to find out the last time she worked. Turns out it’s not quite as long ago as this TV Guide cover, which was in 1966. She did some voice work a quarter century ago and a couple of cameo appearances […]