Here’s what I’m not talking about today, and why. On the one hand, I agree with the couple in Byrnes’ cartoon, because it’s not much of a surprise and I don’t respect either of them and, overall, I don’t much care.On the other, I also agree with Deering’s suggestion that we’ve got plenty of more […]
Another of those where-do-we-start days, but fortunately Tom the Dancing Bug has not only provided the big picture, but has done so in explain-it-as-if-I-were-in-kindergarten fashion.If we wanted, we could just run in circles offering theories and insights for everything here until the cows come home, or, more appropriately, until the chickens come home to roost, […]
Marty Two Bulls, Sr. won the 2025 Herblock Prize. The award ceremony was held on March 28, 2025 at the Library of Congress and photographer Bruce Guthrie was there to record the reception, the exhibit, the accompanying lecture, and the presentation itself, Hundreds of photos from the presentation and of the exhibit/reception featuring Marty Two […]
Heller addresses the matter of taking Donald Trump seriously but not literally. Some of what he says is clearly ridiculous, some seems unlikely, some is frightening. As the woman suggests, the combination forms an endless cycle of distraction.However, while he didn’t keep his vainglorious promise to end the war in Ukraine in 24 hours, some […]
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I wasn’t sure which end of the Joni Ernst cascade to start with, but I like how Wuerker lays the debacle at the feet of the Republican Party. Ernst was challenged at a townhall by someone calling out that people would die as a result of GOP cutbacks to Medicaid, to which she responded that […]
Major Strasser: Captain Renault, are you entirely certain which side you are on?Louis Renault: I have no conviction, if that’s what you mean. I blow with the wind, and the prevailing wind happens to be from Vichy.Tom Tomorrow unleashes a torrent of nonsense, almost entirely things Donald Trump never said, but much of which echoes […]
Saturday, June 14 (2025) will see the world premiere of the documentary film by Bill Banowsky at the DC/DOX Film Festival of A Savage Art: The Life and Cartoons of Pat Oliphant. Patrick Oliphant was a giant slayer, bravely taking on presidents, popes and the American corporate class with his mighty pen. An Australian transplant, […]
As print continues its decline, a new challenge has emerged for this workforce: the rise of AI image generators. The first major text-to-image models were released back in 2022 and quickly ignited debates about copyright infringement and labor displacement among illustration communities. In recent weeks, this debate reemerged after ChatGPT rolled out a new image […]
The Serendipitous Timing Award today goes to Jeff Stahler, for a piece done in advance but that struck home anyway. I got Wordle in 4 today and I don’t play Connections, but, like her, I was completely flummoxed by Trump’s latest social media post:Yes, the leader of our nation has endorsed a theory that Joe […]
Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall has proclaimed May 31, 2025 Pat Bagley Day! Bagley recently depicted Mendenhall in one of his illustrations. In the cartoon, the mayor is holding new official flags Salt Lake City adopted an effort to comply with a new Utah law banning pride flags from government buildings and schools. A […]
One can hope, along with Ohman, that Senate Republicans will at least have their staffs read the Big Beautiful Bull and highlight the irrelevant, dangerous parts the House snuck in, like the part that says local government can’t pass bills limiting artificial intelligence.And it wouldn’t hurt to examine some of the relevant but cruel parts […]
Guilford College’s Every Campus A Refuge (ECAR) program is receiving more national recognition. Only this time the attention is coming from an unexpected source: a comic strip. Josh Neufeld, a writer and artist whose work has appeared in The Washington Post and The New York Times, published a comic strip earlier this month in The Boston Globe that […]
A sudden explosion in Trump Always Chickens Out references, caused by a sudden explosion in the White House press room because some nasty reporter asked the TACO how he felt about being called a taco.One of those things we warn 4-year-olds about: When you react like that, it just encourages them. So now there are […]
ComicLab hosts Dave Kellett and Brad Guigar are preparing for an educational and entertaining live recording of the ComicLab podcast at the Boston NCS Conference and Reubens in August. Featuring a panel of cartoonists who are succeeding with self-publishing, self-promotion, and fan management on platforms like Patreon, Kickstarter, Substack, and more, you’ll discover what strategies […]