I’ve been loathe to pass along British political cartoons lately because they’ve been so steeped in economics and intraparty squabbles as to be impenetrable to the outside. However, the emergence of Liz Truss as Prime Minister has unleashed such a flood of ridicule that Matt’s cartoon is quite accurate: It’s hilarious even if you don’t […]
No politics today, but I can’t help but share this morning’s Sunday Times cover, upon which Morten Morland has depicted the Prime Ministers who served the UK in those years. We’ll get back to politics and Liz Truss tomorrow, assuming she’s still in office tomorrow. Not that politics don’t matter, and Deflocked reminds us of how […]
Dr. MacLeod comments on the latest round of executions and self-immolation from Gannett, and I promise not to go into yet another rant about how Wall Street owners don’t care about the product, only about the profits, not because it isn’t central to the problem but because I’ve said it so often that it has […]
No need to wait for the cartoons about yesterday’s Jan 6 Committee hearing to arrive; Jack Ohman had picked up on the scandals and ass-covering of the Secret Service that morning, though I doubt he knew ahead of time the ghastly array of uninvestigated warnings that would be displayed at the hearing.I’ve often said that […]
An 18 month old cartoon by Salt Lake Tribune cartoonist Pat Bagley was the stated reason Utah Rep. Burgess Owens gave for withdrawing from a scheduled debate five hours before it began.From The Gephardt Daily: Utah [Representative] Burgess Owens announced just before 1 p.m. Wednesday that he would not participate in Wednesday pre-election debate scheduled […]
A programming note from RJ Matson: The Jan 6 Committee will hold what is likely to be its last public hearing today at one pm, so set a recording to catch it if you won’t be home at that hour.And set your expectations at “not too high.” It’s not that they won’t unveil the goods, […]
Arlo and Janis cut to the heart of the matter, though the fact is, we need to find a way to weasel out of Columbus Day entirely and not just its angst.We don’t shift into reverse very easily. There are 27 amendments to the Constitution, and only one of them restricts, rather then enlarging, our […]
Once again in sync with Mike Peterson’s report today from the AAEC Convention, which touched on intimidating feedback, comes an editorial cartoonist receiving a menacing warning about his cartoons. ‘Challenge Accepted’: De Adder retweets every Poilievre cartoon he’s ever drawn after receiving threatening email. Political cartoonist Michael de Adder, who works his magic for The […]
The AAEC panel on “Cartooning in a Post-Truth World” was, as noted yesterday, dynamic enough to justify separate treatment, and much of that was in the balance of the group.With AAEC President Kevin Necessary moderating, the panel consisted of Marc Murphy, who cartoons for the Louisville (KY) Courier-Journal, the local public media outlet and a […]
As Mike Peterson reported (with photos!) Steve Stegelin won the Rex Babin Award last night.And Steve’s home The Charleston City Paper proudly boasted of the honor: Charleston City Paper cartoonist Steve Stegelin on Saturday won a major national award for cartoon excellence for the style and snark that Charlestonians have come to love for the […]
My day yesterday began at a CXC event, with a session on James Sturm, a cartoonist of substantial background and current production, best known in my neighborhood as the founder of the Center for Cartoon Studies in White River Junction, VT, which is just across the river from me.Oddly enough, though we’re only four or […]
Actors are artists. Some even pick up brushes and put oil to canvas. And a few have been or become cartoonists. A very few.Before Frank James Cooper became actor Gary Cooper he contributed at least two political cartoons to his hometown newspaper The Helena Daily Independent in 1924. Xavier Cugat was already a famous bandleader […]
The first day of the AAEC Conference began with a long business meeting and ended, alas, with the discovery that my camera had been lying to me all day long. So it goes.But backlighting and shadows are appropriate here because they probably shouldn’t have even let a non-voting associate in, and, like most such meetings, […]
Got in later than I’d hoped yesterday, so nothing to report on the AAEC/CXC confab yet. Meanwhile, the globe apparently continued to spin. Jeffrey Koterba offers a two-edged gag, or, at least, a cartoon that has both a superficial and a deeper meaning.Polls seem to have been wrong a lot recently, or maybe we’ve become too […]
Let’s get the thing with the boots over first: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis showed up for a photo-op in white wellies and immediately drew a slew of “Who wore them best?” tweets, mostly split between Nancy Sinatra and the green M&M, who, before black mermaids and crystal flutes, had conservatives up in arms over those […]