(Here is the CSotD from January 7, 2021, the morning after the coup attempt. I’ve resisted the temptation to add notes and updates, since it should stand as a record of how cartoonists rallied within 24 hours of the event.) CSotD: Slouching Towards Bedlam I was almost tempted to simply post Marco De Angelis (Cartoon […]
We’ll start with a gamble that didn’t pay off, as seen in Nick Anderson (Counterpoint)’s cartoon. As you may have heard, CNN launched a streaming service, CNN+, which was then cancelled before it was a month old. But the gamble wasn’t that they thought it would catch on and it didn’t. I had some quibbles […]
There have been several cartoons comparing Putin to either Hitler or Stalin, but I like Robert Ariail’s, because it is very simple and yet pinpoints Stalin’s legacy in Ukraine, where he engineered a ghastly, deadly famine in which millions died. All former Soviets remember their losses to the Germans in World War II, but the […]
Michael de Adder declares sanctions a failure within hours of the announcement of the first full rounds, mocking Biden’s response as silly and futile. There’s a real temptation to ask “What do you think we should do, then?” Tucker Carlson would, of course, offer a way of dealing with Putin that involves soft lighting and […]
I agree with Tom Stiglich (Creators) so very rarely that I’m going to give him the honor of leading off today’s rant. I don’t agree with him that Hillary Clinton is a villain. I like her, and I think she’d have made a pretty good president and certainly an improvement on what we got instead. […]
If you follow any cartoonists on social media, you’ve probably already seen Ann Telnaes’ interactive analysis of the January 6 insurrection, because her colleagues have been praising and forwarding it since she unveiled it yesterday. That’s unusual, not because of professional competition but simply because cartoonists tend to sit back and watch the market rather […]
We’ll start out with some good news, via Steve Brodner: Not only did the Kellogg’s workers ratify a new contract, but it seems like they got pretty much what they wanted and that management — who had threatened to replace them with scabs — got pretty much not a whole lot except several months of […]
My first impression of this Steve Breen (Creators) piece was that he obviously hadn’t read up on the particular level of sanctions which Biden apparently proposed, should Putin (further) invade Ukraine. As noted here (and in the general news coverage), it’s not just the type of sanctions against individual oligarchs that Obama invoked in Putin’s […]
Ann Telnaes offers a good reflection on what we may have just seen happen. I hadn’t expected either a full conviction on all charges or a full exoneration, so I’m a little gobsmacked at the moment, but I think the Rittenhouse verdict falls in somewhere among the acquittals of OJ Simpson on charges of murdering […]
Jeff Koterba starts us off with a “Yes, but No” take on Michael Flynn’s bizarre declaration that the US is and must be a Christian nation. Yes, the nation was founded on the principle of freedom of (and from) religion: Any fair reading of the Founders, and any literate reading of the Constitution, makes that […]
Nick Anderson (Counterpoint) manages the only tasteful riff I’ve seen on that accidental movie set shooting. It’s not a real gun and GOP claims of a stolen election are equally fake and, alas, they’re both equally deadly. The question is not whether Donald Trump believes his Big Lie — he’s been a bullshit artist all […]
There’s a lot to like in Steve Sack‘s cartoon, which plays upon the recent decision to allow booster shots of whatever is available rather than the specific vaccine you had before. Not only is it a good wrap-up of the major lies being promoted and accepted, but the dizzy, satisfied smile on the face of […]
I’m not sure if Tom Tomorrow is breaking the rule here about ascribing to evil that which can be explained by stupidity, but he does echo the lyric from Phil Ochs’ “Cops of the World,” “We’ve done it before, so why all the shock?” Why did everyone react with such horror to the drone strike […]
Baby Blues (KFS) sets the stage today, because we’re going to look beyond the cover, much as we might rather not. BTW, Baby Blues seems, of late, less focused on the humorous oddities of raising a family and more centered on how much Zoey and Hammy hate each other. This doesn’t make for many laughs […]
Given that today is only the 17th, I have no idea how many people will turn out tomorrow to protest the arrests of people who attempt the violent overthrow of the government. Nor, assuming they show up, do I know whether they will be met with the rubber bullets, truncheons and tear gas used against […]