We try to avoid duplication and stepping on each other’s toes around here, and by now you’ve likely seen DD Degg’s coverage of Ann Telnaes’ resignation from the Washington Post. And if you haven’t seen his coverage here, you’ve almost certainly seen some coverage because it is all over the Internet, with regret and praise […]
As Gary Varvel (Creators) points out, the terrorist attack in New Orleans has every American praying, or, at least, it has every American who prays praying.And Clay Bennett (CTFP) says that the ISIS attack has taken the happiness out of the New Year. While Walt Handelsman, who lives in the Crescent City, rallies his fellow […]
Dave Whamond offers a thought-provoker that would make a good prompt for a government seminar.The Founders took steps to prevent an immigrant from heading the government, but they assumed a nation guided by the votes of responsible citizens. They made no law about race, gender, age or wealth of voters, though individual states subsequently did. […]
Jeremy Banx’s old couple welcomes in the New Year with the same attitude I did, having seen it several times. I just went to bed at my usual time and the calendar managed to do its thing without my assistance, as it often has.So no cartoons today about people falling asleep before the ball drops, […]
Not sure either event is particularly “inspiring” except to the wrong people, but Brewster Rockit (Tribune) does a good job of choosing the finalists and summing up the year, and I think he made the right choice.The election was like finding out your lover has been cheating on you. On the one hand, you’re suddenly […]
Dave GranlundMarc MurphyI’m okaying Granlund and Murphy for the hardhats because, while their cartoons salute his post-presidency Habitat for Humanity work, they do so while praising his other accomplishments, marking his whole life, not just one aspect of it.I won’t, however, feature cartoons that portray him entirely as a carpenter or that show him being […]
This Edison Lee (KFS) ran on Third Day, but I’m borrowing it on Fifth Day because I think a fifth would be lovely gift today, though I realize liquor stores are closed in a lot of places. But I have some other observations:One is that the gifts in the song are additive, so all the […]
Let’s start with this depressing cartoon from Jonesy. It might be funny if it were some kind of exaggeration, but it functions as an editorial cartoon that, as editorial cartoons can do, elicits a grim smile of recognition.The speed with which AI is taking over everything has made it impossible for the greater society to […]
Morten Morland offers the most sweeping, and chilling view of things to come, in the way billionaires are lining up to not just pay homage to, but to pay, the incoming president. I’d like to think I’d be just as appalled if a president with whose intentions I agreed were getting all these massive donations, […]
Today is Boxing Day or St. Stephen’s Day or Wren Day (Lá an Dreoilín) or, as I call it, the point when if I haven’t used a cartoon yet it’s probably become irrelevant because they’ve all been about Christmas for the past three weeks.Fiona Katauskas takes an appropriately irreverent and silly look at Boxing Day. […]
You’ll note Santa’s helmet at the left. This banner was from 1944, 80 years ago, six months after D-Day and right in the heart of the Battle of the Bulge, which explains the light in the window at the right. The war was also in the heart of most comic strips on Christmas that year.Race […]
Christmas Eve, that is. Not to be confused with the Turgenev novel, though his portrait of over-educated Russian intellectuals dithering around as the rest of Europe explodes in revolution seems sadly relevant at the moment. But we’ll get back to that, and, if we don’t, it will get back to us. As Fiona Katauskas says, […]
Wallace the Brave (AMS) and Spud the … um … the Spudacious … offer a holiday take that breaks through the usual seasonal noise. And speaking of noise, I’d rather have a couple of kids come by with an absurd but amusing rap than hear Musak at the store in which nameless singers flail at […]
There are scores of cartoons questioning who is the president, Donald or Elon, but I particularly like Jeff Stahler (AMS)‘s take because it suggests some sneakiness on Elon’s part, rather than a willing handover by Dear Leader.The way to get Musk out of government is not by direct demands. Trump hates being told what to […]
I’m mixing political cartoons with humor today, and starting with a question: Does anybody really care about this issue anymore?Clay Jones isn’t the only left-of-center cartoonist to bring it up, but it’s been a long time since I’ve seen anyone right-of-center whining about the whole “Merry Christmas/Happy Holidays” kerfuffle. I suppose maybe I have just […]