This isn’t a Juxtaposition of the Day because it’s a Juxtaposition of 23 Years. Bramhall’s is current, Englehart’s ran back when we went into Iraq in 2003 with the same goal of stopping terror. Both cartoons comment on the foolishness of the effort, but Bramhall focuses on the president who blundered into a hopeless maze, […]
Jim McCloskey began his newspaper career on staff with The News-Virginian advertising department from 1986 to 1988. In 1989 he moved to The News Leader art department a few miles away where he began drawing editorial cartoons. In 2012 Jim moved to Mississippi and The Sun Herald for a couple years. “I thought that I […]
We visit “Aquino,” Tom Tomorrow and Ruben Bolling, Patrick McDonnell, Lee Falk, and antisemitism.New Ripley’s Cartoonist Who is Also Mostly UnknownThe new Ripley’s Believe It or Not cartoonist “DeJoy“ has, after one week (February 23-28, 2026), given way to another new cartoonist “Aquino” beginning today March 2, 2026. A Ruben Bolling-Tom Tomorrow Funny Times Interview […]
Two days after the attacks on Iran began, the assault continues to dominate political cartooning, though Monday is always quiet as few cartoonists work the weekend.Deering reminds us that Trump had claimed to have obliterated Iran’s nuclear capability and now says the attacks are intended to stop Tehran from developing a nuclear weapon. At the […]
The National Cartoonists Society (NCS) was formed 80 years ago on March 1, 1946. From the National Cartoonists Society page: The Society was born at a specially convened dinner in New York in March, 1946, that saw Rube Goldberg elected as president, Russell Patterson as vice president, C.D. Russell as secretary and Milton Caniff as […]
Mike started this morning off by giving G. B. Trudeau and Doonesbury the Good Timing Award. Here is the title panel to today’s Doonesbury: Comic Strip Trivia Enjoyed today’s Thatababy and am impressed with Jonathan Lemon’s ability to ape the various named cartoonists’ drawing styles and signing the panel that included one of his current […]
Nice timing on today’s Doonesbury, which was done some time ago but appears just as Dear Leader demonstrates his peacekeeping skills as well as his need for praise.Among editorial cartoonists, it was interesting to see who leapt into the fray and who did not. I recognize that some cartoonists may not be allowed to break […]