A bit of a gentle start, since things may get a little rough before we’d done. Granted, Horsey makes Russ Vought look like a mad scientist, offering America a trip in his time machine.But it could be worse, because, beyond that, what Vought offers is a trip back to a time that colors the notion […]
*A government action “that could never happen here.”We start with a couple Letters to the Editor. To the Cleveland Plain Dealer: When it comes to the Comey indictment, cartoonist Dana Summers has trouble telling R’s from D’s Editorial cartoonist Dana Summers, in his “Payback” cartoon in the Sept. 29 Plain Dealer, apparently believes the indictment […]
It’s not this simple.As Bennett suggests, both sides are getting talking points out of the government shutdown. However, it’s unclear how much each side benefits or is damaged by the situation, in part because of the rhetoric being tossed around and in part because it hasn’t gone on long enough for its effects to be […]
How the West failed the test of the Danish cartoons controversy On 30 September 2005, 12 cartoons appeared in the Danish newspaper, Jyllands-Posten, under the headline, ‘The face of Muhammad’. They were commissioned in response to reports that Danish children’s author Kare Bluitgen had been unable to find an illustrator for a book about Muhammad. […]
We’ll start with a cartoon from Australia that suggests two responses from up here: One is “Glad we could amuse you,” since we have to live with the chaos she depicts. But that draws a second response of “Thank god you’re watching,” because we’d sure hate to have all this unfolding without witnesses.And if the […]
Jeff Darcy, who has been an editorial cartoonist at The Cleveland Plain Dealer for 33 years, is retiring. From today’s Cleveland Plain Dealer is Jeff’s message to his fellow PD staffers: After nearly 40 years producing Editorial Cartoons for Cleveland newspapers, the last 32 with The Plain Dealer/Cleveland.com, I’m sorry to say, “So long,” as […]
SACRAMENTO — California Governor Gavin Newsom is facing a wave of criticism after the official press account for the governor posted an AI-generated cartoon showing White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller leading former President Donald Trump on a leash. International Jewish News reports: Conservative commentators and several Republican officials said the cartoon trafficked […]
Jones is often provocative, slinging purposeful insults, but generally backed by an intelligent political argument. This isn’t a particularly polite cartoon, but he addresses a critical question and, if the Mike Johnson character is ranting incoherently, the elephant cuts right to the nub of the issue: If the GOP has such a reasonable position, why […]
In January, the Washington Post spiked a cartoon by Pulitzer Prize–winning Ann Telnaes that criticized the supplicant attitude displayed by the paper’s billionaire owner, Jeff Bezos, towards Donald Trump … She promptly resigned after the incident, the first time one of her pieces had been rejected over its subject. For 31 years, KAL contributed his […]
Does anybody even care about Ronald Reagan anymore? His presidency (1981-89) is cited as the starting point for the Republican revolution, though many more politicians and commentators were involved in that movement. But Reagan was more than a figurehead; he was active and charismatic and, as Ohman recalls, intent on uniting the nation, even if […]
This being a “where do we start?” moment, we’ll start before yesterday’s gathering of the brass with Marty Two Bulls’ reaction to the Secretary of Defense War’s restoration of medals of honor to soldiers who participated in the Wounded Knee Massacre. Granted, Two Bulls is Lakota and so has a particular reason to feel that […]
Davies proves that there’s no situation so dire that you can’t wring a laugh out of it, so long as the laugh is dark and points out the overlying absurdity of things. In this case, he draws an obviously good-spirited, harmless alien, in conversation with an obviously good-spirited civilian, and a half-dozen large, masked men. […]
Everywhere around the world… Zehra ÖmeroğluIt was back in May we reported: Cartoonists Rights has bestowed the 2025 Robert Russell Courage in Cartooning Award 2025 on Zehra Ömeroğlu, a Turkish cartoonist, who has been the target of criminal prosecution for a cartoon that was published in 2020 and faces a three year prison sentence. Well […]
If everybody always lies to you, the consequence is not that you believe the lies, but rather that nobody believes anything any longer. … And a people that no longer can believe anything cannot make up its mind. It is deprived not only of its capacity to act but also of its capacity to think […]
President Trump this morning posted a cartoon firing Fed Chairman Jerome Powell. From CNBC: As CNBC points out, “The image appears to be “AI-generated or digitally illustrated,” according to visual analysis by ChatGPT.” No one seems to know if this is real or just a fantasy. Earlier in the day Trump posted an ai generated […]