above: “Purgatory”Daryl Cagle welcomes Peter Kuper to the Cagle Cartoons family:I’m happy to call attention to our new CagleCartoonist, Peter Kuper, who has joined our newspaper syndication package at CagleCartoons.com, along with our PoliticalCartoons.com store and Cagle.com. See our archive of Peter’s latest cartoons on Cagle.com. Peter has an impressive cartooning resume! He is a […]
Not to single out Benjamin Slyngstad in particular. He’s just one of a whole lot of cartoonists and late night hosts who have decided that Joe Biden should not be president because he said “Malarkey.”And, however he means it, what he says here is probably true.We may be reaching the “Al Gore is a Liar” […]
In Samoa almost 4000 people have come down with measles; 55, mostly young children, have died. The Samoan measles outbreak was turned into a gag by New Zealand cartoonist Garrick Tremain.It sparked immediate outrage and was labelled racist, heartless, and insensitive. The outcry led to the Otago Daily Times, who published the cartoon to issue an […]
Sputnik News, owned and funded by the Russian Government, is registering displeasure over a recent Mike Luckovich cartoon.Sputnik, using a lot of boldface, says:An award-winning American political cartoonist has made a habit of deploying bigoted tropes as a political weapon against Russians. His latest doodle features a nefarious “Russians” figure arbitrarily thrown into a motley […]
So Joe Biden’s campaign is done, over, finished, because he decided to use a quirky, amusing word in place of “bullshit.”I don’t know if Matt Wuerker is proclaiming this, or only observing it, but in a less hostile, divided country, it might not even be an issue.However, Politico has determined that Biden’s “No Malarkey Tour” […]
If you haven’t had quite enough Thanksgiving, I recommend a trip to Paul Berge’s blog, where you can check out Thanksgiving cartoons from roughly a century ago, including this post-WWI John McCutcheon piece noting that, while Extravagance, Unrest and the High Cost of Living were still dining at the table, War, Hunger and Hard Times […]
Scott Stantis unintentionally wraps up how I’m feeling about social media specifically and the body politic generally.His intention is almost certainly a “What if?” by which I mean that, when he posted this at Twitter, he commentedSo this president has taken to coddling and pardoning war criminals. Just when you thought this administration couldn’t get […]
Today’s Moderately Confused is only confused about what the drama will be, not whether there will be some.A lot of holidays include a big dinner at some point, but Thanksgiving is the only one where the dinner is the entire point, and it tends to focus things on that gathering. Hence the drama.Okay, come to […]
The American Association of Editorial Cartoonists notes:We got an email the other day from cartoonist Jimmy Margulies, who wanted everyone to know yet another paper has dropped editorial cartoons. Margulies writes, “My first day back at work upon returning from the convention in Columbus [in October], I was told that my newspaper amNEW YORK was […]
Jen Sorensen explains where we’re at.I think.It’s hard to know what’s going on, because we tend to rely on what people discuss on social media, and, first of all, we don’t know the proportion of the actual population they represent.That is, it’s fair to assume that nearly everyone is on social media of some sort, […]
It doesn’t matter where we begin today, since it’s really a grab bag, but Chip Bok’s cartoon made me think, so we’ll start there.I brushed off the Bloomberg part. I’m glad he admitted that “Stop and Frisk” was a bad policy, but I don’t take his candidacy seriously and it doesn’t seem anyone else does, […]
The idea that everyone was glued to the hearings is a bit fanciful, though somebody posted a photo taken on an airplane where all the screens were playing the same thing despite the choices available, including the choice of nothing at all.However, the laundromat TV was tuned to a comedy when I put in my […]
I don’t know if Paul Berge considers this a cartoon or if he just posted it on his page to amuse himself and his regulars.Machs nix. When I used to do a presentation to high school students about political cartooning, I began by noting that they’ve usually got some wiseass who passes rude things around […]
John Branch starts us off with a political laugh.Trump’s standard defense is “I don’t know the guy,” which means that, if you rob a bank, the police should only interview witnesses you’ve had lunch with.I know politicians who pride themselves on the number of people they know, and even cheat the number up.Hubert Humphrey had […]
So, yesterday, I commented on Clay Jones posting a boatload of sketches because political cartooning has become such a target-rich environment, and this was only a few days after I posted the first of several Ann Telnaes sketches from the impeachment hearings, and commented that they were as good as some people’s finished cartoons.Now Telnaes […]