The AAEC panel on “Cartooning in a Post-Truth World” was, as noted yesterday, dynamic enough to justify separate treatment, and much of that was in the balance of the group. With AAEC President Kevin Necessary moderating, the panel consisted of Marc Murphy, who cartoons for the Louisville (KY) Courier-Journal, the local public media outlet and […]
Joe Heller manages to capture the two major topics this year: A divided country and fireworks. I know which one bothers me more, but I’m capable of considering two things at a time. Juxtaposition of the Day (Jeff Koterba) (Edison Lee – KFS) Not sure why Edison finds his results disappointing. I think purple […]
A different sort of Juxtaposition to start the day: The famous lines from Arthur Conan Doyle’s “Silver Blaze,” combined with Ann Telnaes’ righteous outrage over the revelations of Senator Mike Lee’s texts, outlining his plan to cooperate in overturning the 2020 elections. The texts caused an uproar on social media, but, as in the […]
Non Sequitur (AMS) addresses the crucial question of life on Earth being obliterated by a meteor, the odds of which, I would note, have not changed simply because we are better at tracking space objects. Though they may become slightly lower, since we’re working on ways of dealing with it. Not that we haven’t been […]
Tim Campbell (WPWG)‘s joke notwithstanding, one of the first things we learned in business law is that a price tag is not binding and that both parties are free to bargain until some kind of consideration changes hands. That’s obvious with the sticker on an automobile window, less so with a tag on a can […]
(Tim Campbell – WPWG) (Jimmy Margulies – KFS) (Tom Stiglich – Creators) This Juxtaposition places the cartoonists in alphabetical order, because I have no intention of ranking them in terms of political insight and, on another day, three completely other cartoonists might have popped up in their place. That latter point being the […]
That cargo ship wedged in the Suez Canal may be a disaster for international trade, but it’s been a boon for political cartoonists. Don Landgren isn’t the only one who has used it to comment on Republican efforts to stop voters from voting. The blockage of the Canal only impacts about 10 percent of […]
Dream on, Winslow. Prickly City (AMS) has been a voice in the wilderness, trying to put forth conservative views without falling into the mire that seems to have taken over things on that side of the aisle. Trump broke his silence the other day with a rant triggered by his loss at the Supreme Court, […]
Seems like a quiet day in the cartooning universe, but a lack of stark drama allows for some more quiet appreciation. For example, in his weekly taking-of-the-wheel at Bizarro (KFS), Dan Piraro touches on one of my pet peeves — see what I did there? — which is “Lady and the Tramp Syndrome,” a bit […]
Clay Jones (Ind) strikes the right note on the ridiculous question of whether people deserve the titles they’ve earned. Spoiler: Yes. Plenty of people have noted that the term “dottore” was applied to educators before it was applied to physicians. For that matter, it was applied to educators before there was such a thing as […]
Leading off with John Deering (Creators) today, not because it’s a brilliant cartoon but because it isn’t. While others are either showing an unbecoming wish for revenge or a distinctly unflattering hint of hypocrisy, Deering simply depicts the country waiting for news, with the only moral value attached being a somewhat understated element of sorrow, […]
I wasn’t expecting to run more “hypocrisy” cartoons — the issue is out there, everyone knows it, there’s little more to be said. And then Matt Davies made me giggle. As noted before, it’s not hypocrisy. Hypocrisy is when you say “Nobody should do this” and then do it yourself. There’s nothing hypocritical in McConnell […]
Clay Jones backs up his cartoon with a furious screed about conspiracy theories and sore losers, worth reading for the anger as well as the message: Congratulations, Democratic conspiracy theorists. You’re on the same level of thinking and paranoia as Donald Trump. Voting or endorsing is not a coup. It’s democratic. It’s politics. And […]
Few editorial cartoonists updated in the past 24 and a lot of strips are kind of in a trough, having crested for Memorial Day, but there are plenty of interesting odds and ends, beginning with the resignation of Theresa May and editorial cartoonists hoping Boris Johnson will become Prime Minister because he’s so much fun […]
Everybody is jumping on the Manafort sentencing, and I like Stuart Carlson‘s take in large part because he doesn’t specify the offense that the defendant was convicted of. We can assume, racists and classists that we are, that the fellow didn’t evade millions of dollars in taxes, but, unlike some cartoonists that compare a sentence […]