David Horsey does a nice job of addressing the way things boiled down for young voters without whining or pointing too many fingers.In fact, in his accompanying remarks, he even concedes that Biden and Sanders are not Boomers but part of the Silent Generation that came earlier.The cartoon hits me while I’m still processing a […]
Half Full is one of several cartoons about the switch from Good Ol’ Reggaler Time to Daylight Saving Not “Savings” Time, but it’s my favorite.Maria Scrivan is more iconic than gag-oriented and this is a topic well-worn enough that there aren’t a lot of good gags left, but an illustrator with a sense of humor […]
As Mike Marland puts it, we got quite a surprise Tuesday, at least the “we” who were basing our expectations on the horse-race coverage and the polls.So, pretty much all of us.But that includes the people who were complaining that letting Iowa and New Hampshire go first wasn’t fair because they’re not ethnically and racially […]
Madam & Eve chimes in from South Africa with an opportunity to see ourselves as others see us.Well, we always wondered what would happen when Dear Leader had to face an actual crisis, and it’s surprising that it took three years.Meanwhile, on the other side of the Atlantic — well, from us though not from […]
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 today’s headline is […]
No politics today, in part because I’m at the airport getting ready to catch a plane and in part because I want to wait for the Super Tuesday cartoons to catch up. I’m still seeing new work featuring people who are no longer in the race.But Mike Luckovich‘s latest can’t wait in large part because […]
Juxtaposition of the Truth(Michael de Adder)(Ann Telnaes)Start with the truth: The danger posed by the coronavirus is no more a matter of opinion than is the roundness of the Earth.Michael de Adder mocks a delusional president who cannot see bad news as anything but a conspiracy against himself.It isn’t just “pride.” Humble people don’t strive […]
I’ve held this Joe Heller cartoon too long, since it obviously ran on Ash Wednesday, nearly a week ago, but I hadn’t forgotten it and there’s a reason for that.There’ve always been jokes about giving things up for Lent. One of my favorite Mr. Dooleys is about his father trying to give up smoking for […]
Jeremy Banx gets the only coronavirus cartoon today, because it made me laff.It’s annoying that hand gel is probably a good idea, because it provides cover for the germaphobes who compulsively wipe down everything for no particular reason.I’m not going to fret until the disease gets a little closer, but that’s not the same as […]
Mike Peters might want to resurrect this 1973 cartoon, now that we have found peace in Afghanistan.That link includes the text of the agreement between the US and “the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan which is not recognized by the United States as a state and is known as the Taliban.”Which terminology I guess saves all […]
There are a lot of coronavirus cartoons, but, while Mike Smith hasn’t taken the time to draw a virus or put a mask on anyone, I think he’s done the best job of capturing the issue.And I will defer the job of commentary to WashPost columnist Catherine Rampell, who begins a brilliant essay thus:It mattered […]
While everyone is freaking out over the coronavirus, Greg Cravens is adapting his own date with disaster as a story arc in Buckets, which begins here with the above strip, from which you can move forward, and it’s not over yet.I made a reference to Hong Kong Flu the other day which might have seemed […]
Ann Telnaes puts into graphic form something that’s been running around my mind, and one of the best things about political cartooning is how its boiling of complexity into a seemingly simple image can focus things.Trump has demanded two justices of the Supreme Court recuse themselves from any cases involving his administration because Sotomayor expressed […]
I’m thinking of doing an entire blog consisting of nothing but cartoons of the Wall Street bull statue wearing a surgical mask. At this stage, it’s still a coincidence, but time’s up, gang. If you would like to examine the coronavirus in more detail, I’d suggest you go to the Guardian and read the rest of […]
Fears of the coronavirus sent the Dow into a freefall, as Rob Rogers depicts it.Though let’s keep our values straight here. The fact that many people are very sick and quite a few of them are dying isn’t what made the bull market fall.It’s the fact that factories in China are closing to prevent spread […]