Original September 27, 2021 item:MAGA and anti-vaccine cartoonist Ben Garrison has self-diagnosed himself with Covid. Ben Garrison, a right-wing cartoonist known for his opposition to vaccines and his extremely flattering drawings of former President Donald Trump, told Gizmodo late Sunday that he contracted covid-19 and has been sick for about two weeks. But allegedly getting […]
It’s a convention extravaganza for the next three weekends.Starting with Cartoon Crossroads Columbus.Alison Bechdel, Hilary Price, Jerry Craft, Jeff Smith, Shary Flenniken, Bianca Xunise, Steenz, Joey Alison Sayers, Jonathan Lemon, Trina Robbins, Shena Wolf, Roberta Gregory, Jules Rivera, Patrick McDonnell, Ben Towle, Brian Walker, Nick Anderson, Chris Samnee, and more guests. Then the next weekend is […]
Start here: It seems that the Border Patrol officers may have only been whipping their horses, not the refugees they were attempting to herd like cattle. Which isn’t the same as saying it didn’t happen, but conceding a reasonable doubt.On the other hand, the people insisting it didn’t happen are often the people claiming Biden […]
We’ll start this discussion of misunderstandings and outright lies with an easy one: Steve Kelley (Creators) resurrects an old canard that, rather than holding off rallies because of the pandemic, Candidate Biden was “hiding in his basement,” and uses it to make a point about his falling approval ratings. You can find any sort of rating […]
Starting today with a meme instead of a cartoon, but one in which I quote myself from a CSotD of about a year ago which seems particularly apt. My response to Greg Kearney‘s cartoon is personal, but that illuminates the point about journalism and friends.When I was editor of a small paper in western Maine, I […]
Cartoonist Mike Marland received the New Hampshire Press Association Lifetime Achievement Award Saturday night at their Excellence in Journalism presentation.From the NHPA site: Over the years Marland has drawn cartoons for 11 newspapers from all over the state, starting out at the Littleton Courier. Mike spent the bulk of his career, almost 30 years, skewing […]
Baby Blues (KFS) sets the stage today, because we’re going to look beyond the cover, much as we might rather not.BTW, Baby Blues seems, of late, less focused on the humorous oddities of raising a family and more centered on how much Zoey and Hammy hate each other. This doesn’t make for many laughs but […]
The Association of American Editorial Cartoonists has released a preliminary schedule of their upcoming online-only convention.The Friday events (so far) are for members only, but Saturdays are open to the public and free.Saturday’s happenings, limited to 300 viewers for each event, include: The finalists for the 2021 Pulitzer Prize in Editorial Cartooning discuss this year’s […]
Here’s the problem: It’s becoming hard for political cartoonists to satirize our situation, because our situation is beginning to feel like satire itself.So Ruben Bolling lays out a mocking synopsis of how foolish people reject science, common sense and civic decency, and it feels more like a documentary than biting commentary.A very well-crafted documentary, mind […]
Ann Telnaes notes some bad news coming out of Afghanistan, as the Taliban shows how empty its promises of respecting women turned out to be.She does well to point out the dismal situation, but there’s a question as to whether it qualifies as news, since it seems to fall under the category of “What did […]
Timing is everything, and, when I first saw this Matt Wuerker (Politico) piece, I planned to feature it with an amusing discursion on Willie Sutton, who was something of a celebrity bank robber, in that, after serving his time, he popped up on the interview circuit. As it happens, he denied ever saying that he […]
If you know me, you know I’m a huge fan of Chester Gould, and I have a number of Dick Tracy originals hanging on my wall. They bring inspiration and a smile to me every day. For my upcoming birthday, my son [Aaron Smith] created a ‘DETECTIVE GRAYSMITH’ comicstrip in the same Dick Tracy style! […]
The perceptive little girl in this Christopher Weyant cartoon asks an excellent question for which her father — judging by his expression — doesn’t have an excellent answer.“Read” the news, we can assume, is shorthand for “consuming” the news, for “paying attention to” the news.Actually reading the news has long been for those interested in […]
When Saigon fell to the North Vietnamese, Congress moved to allow 140,000 refugees to settle in the US, a number that swelled to about a million as boat people and other escapees came to our shores. My recollection of the times was that, while not everyone here was thrilled at the influx, the only overt […]
Given that today is only the 17th, I have no idea how many people will turn out tomorrow to protest the arrests of people who attempt the violent overthrow of the government.Nor, assuming they show up, do I know whether they will be met with the rubber bullets, truncheons and tear gas used against those […]