Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy has his hands full on both coasts. His Washington D.C. troubles are lead stories on national networks, at home a faux pas is front page news – headlined above the fold.From the Bakersfield Californian:In a cartoon posted on Rep. Kevin McCarthy’s blog last week, a woman lounges under a tropical sun, […]
A Dennis Draughon editorial cartoon is taking some heat.From the right-of-center The Hill:North Carolina’s first Black lieutenant governor held a press conference on Tuesday to express outrage over a political cartoon that linked him and other members of the State Board of Education to the Ku Klux Klan for their opposition to allowing teachers to speak about […]
Which of The Usual Gang of Idiots Do You Most Admire? That’s almost impossible to answer … Mort Drucker was the master of caricature and literally defined the movie/TV parody. Jack Davis was the greatest action/movement/physical cartoonist maybe ever. Wally Wood was a virtuoso of ink, light, and shadow, and could draw virtually anything from […]
I’ll be sending you off to some good stuff today, but let’s lead with a cartoon I absolutely cannot understand.I almost always disagree with AF Branco (Creators) but it’s not hard to figure out his rightwing fringe take on things.This one makes no sense, though, unless he preferred the succession of liars, obstructionists and bullshit […]
Seated at his desk at The Houston Chronicle in July 2017, Nick Anderson was neck-deep in research, searching for the subject of his latest cartoon, while mentally packing ahead of his family’s impending move to the Riverside Terrace house he’d closed on only six days prior when the phone rang: his boss needed to see […]
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I’m going to let John Branch (KFS) stand in for a lot less honest, or less accurate, commentators, because his piece is both clever and, I think, accurate.Westerners are used to seeing those pumps constantly going up and down on the plains, but I heard them likened to grasshoppers early enough that I didn’t think […]
There is a growing and welcome sub-genre of comics history that deals with African American cartoonists and the work they have produced. Below, some books off the shelf dealing with the subject.Invisible Men by Ken Quattro is the most recent of the books about Black cartoonists. This deals with the Golden Age of comic books […]
I always enjoy Agnes (Creators), but never more than today, when she is slogging through the snow and kvetching over a month that even Gilbert & Sullivan dismissed as “beastly.”Which is a good time to point out that Groundhog Day is ridiculous because it’s far too dependent on location, and was originally a badger in […]
As noted here yesterday, the GameStop gambit was not pulled off by youngsters, but I got a laff out of Dave Whamond (Cagle)‘s cartoon anyway, because, regardless of whodunnit, the targets were, indeed, pigs.Not because they are rich. I know some rich people who got there honestly and ethically. But I’m not the only newspaper person […]
The Gamestop/Reddit gambit creates one of those “Where do I start?” sorts of days, but certainly Alex (Telegraph.UK) is an excellent place, even though he wasn’t commenting specifically on that.I often — perhaps too often — admit that Alex can be kind of nerdy for those who have not been immersed in the business world, […]
Prickly City (AMS) offers an intelligent view of our current dilemma, and offers a hope that there are more than a handful of intelligent conservatives out there observing this mess.But Winslow is right in that, while elections are the traditional and obvious correction in a democracy, the Treason Caucus encourages its Deplorable Army to distrust […]
(Jack Ohman – WPWG)(Ann Telnaes – WashPo)Here’s a Juxtaposition of two cartoonists whose work I greatly admire, but I’m giving Telnaes the advantage this time around because, while I like and agree with both cartoons, there are times when understated banality is more powerful than comic exaggeration.Besides, wit all doo respeck to Ohman, I’m as […]
Morten Morland (Times) offers this commentary tying in the coronavirus vaccine with the heroic but somewhat inexplicable return of Victor (ed. No, Alexei) Navalny to Russia, which — in case you hadn’t heard — has touched off massive, nationwide demonstrations in support of him and against Putin’s oligarchy.“Inexplicable” in the first place because Putin already […]
I find it perversely comforting that, having praised Popeye the Sailor Mensch on Saturday for giving away a million dollars, I find in Monday’s Thimble Theater (KFS) that he’s having trouble doing it.“Perversely comforting” in that, while I wish it were otherwise, it’s clear that even back in 1937, we had plenty of cynics amongst […]