Matt Golding offers the only Dead OJ cartoon you will ever need, but it sure isn’t the only Dead OJ cartoon you’re being offered.I suppose it’s because a lot of cartoonists are around 50 years old. My first memory of OJ was that he ruined the homecoming game my freshman year in college, and I […]
From Plastic News: This week’s issue marks the first time since Plastics News was founded in 1989 without a Rich Williams cartoon on the editorial page. So with this issue, we’re introducing readers to Leo Michael. He’s a native of Fairlawn, Ohio, who has been a freelance cartoonist since graduating from the University of Akron. […]
There’s a lot of political stuff I won’t be addressing today, because I’m tired of politics but also because there are several recent developments that will become cartoons over the next couple of days and I want to wait for them to mature.My objection to Clay Jones’s latest cartoon is purely editorial. I agree with […]
Lets begin with a personal laff I got from this Flying McCoys (AMS).One of my jobs as a business writer in the late 80s was to cover openings and closings at the local mall. The publicity director there was a pal, but she had a job to do.I wrote an update on the food court […]
Brewster Rockit (Tribune) gets to lead off for a second day in a row, having shifted from the informational back to the absurd.As noted, I stayed home rather than driving the four hours to my old digs in the Adirondacks, and I missed both totality and a good party, but we had a nice picnic […]
Start with an explainer from Brewster Rockit (Tribune). The strip is usually an absurdist laff-fest, but it breaks from time to time for an explanation, which goes to show that humor is funnier when the joker understands the topic.And, boy, would I like to carve that in stone. The cartoons that work are the ones […]
If you are waiting for Graeme MacKay to apologize get comfortable because you’re going to grow old waiting. Instead Graeme offers an essay on editorial cartooning, satire, and boundaries. Among subjects, slants, gags, texts, and artistic layouts, boundaries is just one of a multitude of other considerations I make in coming up with an editorial […]
Michael Ramirez (Creators) starts us off with a tough one, because the facts appear to be hung up between history and hope. A large problem with the question of who gets audited is the age of the data. The General Accounting Office, which should be an impartial source, relies on data from 2019, which is […]
A letter to the Oregonian: The Rose is Rose cartoon of March 20 shows a cat’s version of enjoying nature – dashing off to chase birds. This is a timely reminder, if unintended, that nesting season is here and it’s a good time to keep your cat indoors. Even if your pet doesn’t actually kill […]
I had to look up Celeste Maloy, but I already know who Pat Bagley is, and already I knew who’s picking our fruits and vegetables, and I know who isn’t.There are two ways of looking at this: One is to emphasize the racism, because Maloy has come out in support of Trump’s promise to build […]
Editorial cartoonist Don Wright has passed away. Donald Conway (Don) Wright January 23, 1934 – March 24, 2024From The Palm Beach Post: (Or via MSN:) Don Wright, the former Palm Beach Post editorial cartoonist whose searing, meticulously crafted illustrations made him one of the most renowned political cartoonists of his era, died last month at […]
Trigger Warning: The following post includes disturbing images and concepts. Those who find such thoughts upsetting may wish to move to a planet were bad things don’t happen.Jeff Stahler (AMS) summarizes the latest tragedy, in which three vehicles of World Central Kitchen, which had been providing food to starving civilians in Gaza, were attacked by […]
Yesterday was Factchecking Day, which makes me wish Steve Kelley (Creators)’s cartoon had run then, because it’s an easy one to fact-check: March 31 was established as International Transgender Day of Visibility in 2009, so there was no “blunder” in the White House issuing a proclamation saying so, as they issue proclamations for all sorts […]
Garry Trudeau, the writer and artist of Doonesbury, has dared to acknowledge a fact about the Hamas leadership that most of the mainstream news media prefer to ignore. Rafael Medoff for the Jewish Journal reports: In the latest Sunday installment of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Doonesbury strip, a fictional anti-terrorist fighter—known as “the Red Rascal”—bursts into […]
Most Easter and April Fools Day cartoons were mayflies, good for a moment but with no real shelf life.But Harry Burton‘s, while intended as a general comment about Israel’s blocking of aid to Gaza, gained significance Easter Monday, when Israeli Defense Forces attacked vehicles of the World Central Kitchen, which has been providing food to […]