The recent PBS “Art in Action” segment, “Political cartoonists on navigating a changing media landscape,” featuring Ann Telnaes, Michael Ramirez, and Sara Duke came into righteous indignation from the conservative media with the eight minute report featuring a few seconds (at around the 5:38 mark) of Ann Telnaes’ February 13, 2025 political cartoon commenting on […]
News with Doug MacGregor, Charlie Daniel and Brad Boring and the SEC-NCS, David G. Brown, Pat Bagley, and a fact check on a viral Trump-Xi tariff cartoon. Doug MacGregor Doug MacGregor has been an editorial cartoonist for more than 40 years. He got his professional start at the Norwich Bulletin in eastern Connecticut in 1980. […]
There’s a lot of rebranding going around these days, as various organizations and individuals decide if they’re going to resist or surrender. Columbia has decided to behave itself and let the government dictate what they teach and what rules they set for their students, which is kind of funny given how well the fellow now […]
Days after the Trump Administration froze $175 million in federal funding the University of Pennsylvania has terminated the employment of progressive Lecturer (and Cartoonist) Dwayne Booth, aka Mr. Fish. From the Mr. Fish Patreon page: I was informed that the reason for the termination was budgetary, which I think is the same reason they gave […]
We’ll start the rundown with a portrait of world leaders by David Rowe, with Donald Trump in the center and his babysitter at his feet. You may notice that it’s not a terribly flattering portrayal, but if you look around the world, you’ll find there aren’t a great many flattering portraits of Dear Leader. Much […]
I like First Dog’s observation “It is so bad they are even doing ICE things to white people.” After all, Trump began his war on foreign folks by attempting to ban all Muslims from entering the country and by condemning Latinos with “They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists. And some, I assume, are […]
Telnaes points out that this isn’t the first self-betrayal in our history, and she could have gone back to the beginning of the nation and added the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798, which would seem particularly upsetting because they were written and passed in the lifetimes of the Founders. Then again, they were the […]
I’m pretty well done with talking about the State of the Union Address, and Horsey sums it up fairly well. Commentators have referred to it as more of a campaign speech than anything addressing the state of the union or proposing any major policies, or at least any new ones. It did likely help Trump […]
I could, if I wanted to, do an entire posting of nothing but cartoons showing Vladimir Putin either giving the State of the Union speech or employing a Trump puppet to give the speech. I don’t want to do that, so I’ll let John Deering’s example represent them all, because he included JD’s “Boycott Vermont” […]
Sometimes it’s easier to be a gag cartoonist than a political cartoonist, but this is not one of those times. I had, briefly, planned to run humorous pieces today while I waited for the editorialists to catch up, but fortunately they leapt to their drawing boards, because, like Sipress, I don’t find anything very funny […]
I hadn’t planned on featuring any more “list of accomplishment” cartoons, since, as said the other day, they were fairly identical and uninspired, but Matson has broken through with this piece, since we’ve entered a moment when the oligarchs seem to be losing their grip. Specifically, Republican lawmakers have been advised by their leadership to […]
Dave Coverly gets the Crystal Ball Award for having drawn this piece godknowswhen but well before Dear Leader declared himself a king and got plenty of pushback. It wasn’t French Revolution level pushback, mind you, despite his having echoed the Sun King who reportedly said, “L’Etat c’est moi,” which is cousin to “He who saves his Country does not […]
Martyn Turner gets to lead off today on the basis of simplicity: Trump is helping Putin to raise the flag of Russia over Ukraine. Extra points for using a symbol of American heroism to mark a moment of American betrayal. You would think, if the Trump administration were going to advocate giving Russia a slice […]
Danziger tells us what we ought to already know, but “ought to” is critical, because there are way too many people — by which I mean voters — who have no idea how schools work or why we have a Department of Education in the first place. The notion that Trump/Musk are bringing an end […]
Yesterday I featured JD Crowe’s cartoon of Musk with baby Trump on his shoulders, noting that there were several variations going around. I’ve seen so many of them that I was tempted to do a whole day of nothing else, but decided that sarcastic repetition doesn’t make much of a point. Ditto lately with cartoons […]