CSotD: Variety Pak Views
Sometimes even a good cartoon becomes obsolete before it sees print. Mike Luckovich seems caught between Walter Isaacson’s book extract…
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CSotD: M’aidez? Non, Sauve Qui Peut!*
Rabbits Against Magic (AMS) offers an all-too-realistic view of the non-floral May Day in our current days of stubborn selfishness,…
CSotD: Two Score and 14 Years Ago … (YMMV)
The tradition is to mark history in round numbers, and 54 years ago is hardly that, but March 31, 1968…
CSotD: Reply Hazy – Try Again
We’ll start the day with a quick, unexpected history lesson, courtesy of Jeff Danziger (WPWG). I went to look up…
CSotD: Watch Your Steppe
Maarten Wolterink (Cartoon Movement) offers this commentary on the pending confrontation between Russia and Ukraine, and his work falls over…
CSotD: Preserving Our Right Not To Know
The perceptive little girl in this Christopher Weyant cartoon asks an excellent question for which her father — judging by…
CSotD: Humanity and Politics
Pat Byrnes (Cagle) joins the masses, though only to mock their haste to be included. Constant Readers know I’ve been…
CSotD: Rolling the bottoms of my trousers
I’m feeling old and grumpy, but, thanks to Paul Berge, I feel less alone. I was tempted to do an…
CSotD: Standing around with our fallacies in our hands
David Fitzsimmons riffs on the 1893 bronze by German sculptor Hugo Rheinhold, in which an ape contemplates a human skull,…
CSotD: Mister, we could use a man like Lyndon Johnson again
I like this Matt Wuerker (Politico) cartoon, though I wish he’d been less specific about the crisis at hand, because…
CSotD: Cartoonist in the mud
Rising to a point of personal privilege, I’m dealing today with Jeff Danziger’s memoir of his time in Vietnam…
CSotD: Withdrawal pains
Let’s start by saying it could be worse: This isn’t a cartoon but a classic illustration by Elizabeth Butler of…
CSotD: D-Day Plus One
Peter Brookes holds up the mirror with a cartoon so simple that I almost passed it by as obvious….
CSotD: Potpourri
I’ll get to politics in a minute, but I’m a little burned out on the topic, so let’s start with…