Tim Newcomb is entitled to his opinion.A Tim Newcomb cartoon about Democratic candidates for Vermont’s U.S. House of Representatives seat has some citizens (and advertisers) calling for a modern day equivalent, as The Times Argus puts it, of the cartoonist being drawn and quartered.Today, Tim finds himself on the end of a pointy stick following […]
I had an odd response to yesterday’s Non Sequitur (AMS) yesterday, or possibly the brilliant inspiration for some kind of dystopian speculative fiction.I suspect the Venn diagram of people who believe in crypto and people who distrust the government has a rather large intersection, given that the appeal of Bitcoins and such appears to be […]
Maarten Wolterink (Cartoon Movement) offers this commentary on the pending confrontation between Russia and Ukraine, and his work falls over two sides of the fence:On the one hand, it is a caution against military adventurism and getting unnecessarily involved in unwinnable conflicts. After all, as Proverbs 26:17 cautions, “He that passeth by, and meddleth with strife belonging not to him, is […]
Sherman’s Lagoon (KFS) plays with a fairly well-known saying, that fish don’t understand the concept of being “wet” because they live in water. It’s applicable to all sorts of things people don’t seem to get for having failed to ever step outside their own experience.Some people are lucky enough to live lives that don’t allow […]
For POLITICO’s 15th anniversary, Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Matt Wuerker picks his favorite sketches of the past decade-and-a-half chronicling American politics. Like those old Herblock and Mauldin and Conrad books Matt selects and annotates the cartoons – he also provides an introduction profiling his career at Politico. Over these past 15 years, POLITICO has done […]
My initial response to Clay Bennett (CTFP)’s cartoon is not “maybe it’s me” but “yeah, it’s definitely me.”I was thinking that because you can declare an Ace to be 1, he still had a straight flush, J-Q-K-1-2. I’m less embarrassed by thinking a flush could — how you say? — go around the corner, than […]
The first Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoon in 1922 How is The Pulitzer Prize board celebrating the 100th anniversary of the first Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning? By eliminating “Editorial Cartooning” as the name of the category.Editorial Cartoonists, going forward, will be known as Illustrated Reporters and Commentators.From the Pulitzer site: The Editorial Cartooning category is […]
John Cole shows both reactions to Biden’s press conference. He gets the time wrong: It was just under two hours, hardly four, but still a prodigious effort.The dual response, I think, is between those who did the assigned homework — who watched the conference and judged it for themselves — and those who fake their […]
Ann Telnaes takes a more cynical, disappointed view of last night’s press conference than I do, but I find it hard to argue with her.Biden was thoughtful and sharp throughout the nearly two-hour presser, and I felt he exhibited candor, including his admission that he was likely going to break up the Build Back Better […]
As Joe Biden approaches his first year in office, Gary Varvel (Creators) points out how badly things have gone.And he’s right: Biden walked into Trump’s naive agreement to withdraw our troops from Afghanistan with barely any conditions, whereupon the Kabul government collapsed and the Taliban took over before we could arrange a peaceful evacuation of […]
Cartoon Exhibit[E]ditorial cartoons [will be] exhibited at the University of Tennessee’s Downtown Gallery beginning Wednesday, January 26 through Saturday, February 26. The Downtown Gallery exhibit is called Point of View: Regional Editorial Cartoons. This exhibition is in conjunction with A Serious Look at the Funnies, an exhibition at the Ewing Gallery of Art + Architecture […]
While we’re recovering up here in the US from a flood of MLK-themed political statements in which people failed to rise to the occasion, Cathy Wilcox kindly explains it all from a neutral viewpoint in Australia.I take some comfort in the fact that they’ve got plenty of their own problems down there and an even […]
SANTA FE – He uses a cane and moves slowly but the mordant wit guiding the pen that launched thousands of political cartoons skewering the powerful and despotic is still evident. Pat Oliphant, 86, sips coffee in his Santa Fe home studio as he tells a reporter he has not drawn for several years after […]
There are a number of MLK cartoons up for the holiday, but Bill Day captures the essential question of how things could possibly have changed so much, and yet so little.He does it with a pair of graphics suggesting that Martin Luther King is still the same person he was in life, and a set […]
I agree with Tom Stiglich (Creators) so very rarely that I’m going to give him the honor of leading off today’s rant.I don’t agree with him that Hillary Clinton is a villain. I like her, and I think she’d have made a pretty good president and certainly an improvement on what we got instead.But, as […]