As often as I’ve complained about cartoonists sticking to their schedules despite compelling events, I have to say a good number jumped to their drawing boards last night. But I was still left with the task of looking for copyright dates, because some posted old work and why not? What has changed? What is there […]
Thirty years ago, cartoonist reactions to Anita Hill’s testimony in Clarence Thomas’s confirmation hearings began to fill the editorial pages, and Tony Auth begins our flashback with this scene-setter. It was a different world, at least in Congress, where the vibe of the rest of the nation hadn’t quite arrived yet. As Jeff MacNelly […]
Ward Sutton admits he drew this some time ago and it languished in the files at the NYTimes Review of Books until this week, but even if the concept is evergreen, I’d call the application of it now timely. Not that I look to the NYTimes for intelligent analysis of graphic commentary. I don’t boycott […]
This is hardly new: It’s an illustration from a 1903 book of nursery rhymes by Charles Robinson, who did much more elaborate work elsewhere and go have a look, because it will be worth your while though you can also read that nursery rhyme book here. As with most nursery rhymes, there are a kabillion interpretations […]
(Kevin Kallaugher) (Matt Wuerker – Politico) The State of the Union speech was, indeed, a welcome relief from years past. It began on the East Coast well after the bedtime of anyone who has to be up by 4 am, but I decided to catch the first few minutes, hit record and watch the […]
Maria Scrivan is a pretty upbeat person, which makes today’s Half Full (AMS) particularly striking, because behind those lovely doughnuts she packs an exasperated punch. Having worked in both advertising and commentary, I’m aware that there is nothing you can say, however plain, however obvious, that someone won’t misinterpret or, as in her cartoon, completely […]
Let’s start by saying it could be worse: This isn’t a cartoon but a classic illustration by Elizabeth Butler of the British army withdrawing from Afghanistan in 1842. The march to Jalalabad began with 4,000 soldiers and 12,000 civilian supporters, but was reduced to badly wounded ass’t surgeon William Brydon, alone on a pony that […]
Suddenly, there’s a lot going on, so we’ll let Tom Tomorrow start us off with the equivalent of the five-minute NPR news wrap-up at the top of the hour before we dig into any details. The bland-restatement format used in This Modern World and some other altie comics tends to fall flat in good times […]
I’m glad Signe Wilkinson (AMS) got out in front of the pack on this one, because it’s a good take and there aren’t a lot of those right now on social media. The first take on the Atlanta murders was that he was a racist singling out Asian women, and there’s no doubt that bigotry […]
Less is more, and John Deering (Creators) has, IMHO, the best take on Andrew Cuomo because he isn’t dancing on the political grave or even pushing Cuomo into it. Nor is he going on about the statistics on nursing home deaths, a scandal that wouldn’t have disappeared but would likely have been more of a […]
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, […]
We’re starting to move kids back into the schoolrooms, and Signe Wilkinson (AMS) questions the wisdom of the move. There are many layers of this issue, and “Follow the science” is deeply tangled up with “Follow the sociology.” Joe Heller takes a similarly skeptical view of the development. Is it science, or is it […]
I noted the other day that the opening of the impeachment trial, and particularly the lackluster nature of Trump’s defense, didn’t seem to spark much fury in Ann Telnaes (WashPo)‘s trial coverage. But it sure didn’t stay that way, and her growing portfolio is fine stuff indeed. We’ll see her again, because there’s a second […]
There is a lot of kvetching over how horrible 2020 has been, but cartoonists are going to have to really kick out the jams to do better than Ann Telnaes (WashPost), who not only echoes Mike Dukakis’s Greek saying that a fish stinks from the head, but, working on-line, does not let herself be limited […]
With so many comics about Thanksgiving leftovers, it seems okay to feature a Thanksgiving leftover from the editorial page, with praise for Signe Wilkinson (Phil Daily News) for acknowledging that (as noted here previously) the Pilgrims were, indeed, “known superspreaders” by the time of that feast. In her commentary on the cartoon, she writes, “As […]