It doesn’t get much simpler than Ann Telnaes depicts it: Donald J. Trump has been indicted. We don’t, as I’m writing this, know the specific charges, and, of course, as a political cartoonist, Telnaes is free to show Trump dressed as a classic Thirties criminal. It may not be entirely accurate, but she did get […]
We’ll start the day with a rebus rather than a joke, though a rebus is, really, a form of joke. Best of all, this is an old rebus and thus an old joke and it has flummoxed a lot of people over the years, I think, because they search for deep meaning in a shallow […]
I wasn’t going to do any more about the Nashville shootings because there wasn’t much fresh to be said about it even yesterday: Either you want it to stop or you don’t. But, at the moment, the alternative seemed to be more cartoons about David and I was already burned out on them. On the […]
A friend emailed last night, wishing me luck in sorting through the inevitable flood of political cartoons that were already coming, inspired by the Nashville murders. I responded “The real problem is people posting their old cartoons. I can’t tell the ones I’ve seen from the ones I only feel like I’ve seen.” I particularly […]
I worked at a paper where this Pardon My Planet (KFS) pretty much described the company health plan. There were fewer than a dozen of us and so the cost of insurance was not only massive to begin with but vulnerable to individual claims: If one person had gotten seriously ill, the entire system would […]
My initial response to today’s Duplex (AMS) was to wonder just how old that movie is, and, when I looked it up, I found it was released March 28, 1963, making it 60 years old as of Tuesday. So perhaps Glenn McCoy is saluting its anniversary, but it still means that all but the most […]
Bill Bramhall takes a shot at New York City’s new and improved “We (heart) NYC” logo. I won’t dispute him on whether the place has too many rats, because I’m not a city person to begin with and NYC is not high on my list. If I had to live in a city, my first […]
Harry Allard’s 1974 book “The Stupids Step Out” has been banned in many places because it’s not funny to refer to people as “stupid,” though you might try the transactional explanation, “It’s not that you’re stupid. It’s that you do stupid things.” Which seems worse, but I’m not going to defend the term, having merely […]
Francis (AMS) combines the dread news of the new report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change with the beginning of Ramadan to make a point about the sudden urge to Do Something as compared to having an ongoing tradition of Doing Something.Ramadan began this week, but, of course, an observant Muslim like Gabby not […]
In case you’ve somehow missed it, today’s headline echoes a popular online comment, “Tell me you don’t understand XXX without telling me you don’t understand XXX.” It’s used as a snarky commentary when someone posts something totally off base. It is not a compliment.However, I’m featuring Pedro X. Molina (Counterpoint)‘s cartoon because he does appear […]
Let me lead off today’s retrospective by admitting I don’t have dates on all of these cartoons and they may well not be in chronological order, nor were they all preserved in the best possible format for use here. However, I do know that Peter Schrank’s 9/11 cartoon should be first, because I used it […]
Flo’s Diner in Non Sequitur (AMS) had a new customer this past week, one who could rival Captain Eddie in the slinging of entertaining baloney. The arc concluded Saturday with, as Eddie said, a chilling bit of reality.It’s no secret that the Orwellian-named “Freedom Caucus” has control of the House, but it helps to have […]
I suppose it shouldn’t be surprising that Kal Kallaugher, who cartoons for the Economist among other clients, should demonstrate some financial literacy and get the SVB/Signature situation right.Call me political, but the people who whined while the Fed was raising interest rates to battle inflation weren’t offering an alternative plan. You can’t have an argument […]
Let’s start at the mellow end of the scale for a change. Joe Heller makes a March Madness joke, and, by the by, “March Madness” is trademarked and you’re not supposed to say it without permission. Well, you can say it, or write it, as I just did, but, as this lawyer points out, you […]
Ann Telnaes lays out the real situation for anyone who thought Dobbs was a single movement. People who predicted that it was only the first shot of a war on women were neither paranoid nor hysterical. They were right, as subsequent tightening of the laws against women’s personal autonomy has shown.Clay Bennett (CTFP) is barely […]