We’ll start and end with a cartoon-invoked memory today, and Mother Goose & Grimm fits right in with hurricane season, because in the late ’90s, a hurricane tore apart schools in Antigua and I ended up leading an effort among newspaper education programs to assist.My counterpart there was able to skirt the usual security problems […]
Dear Leader’s Friday night off-script tirade drove Steve Artley to his drawing table for this commentary, which shows Trump taking a knee to protest and reject the burden placed upon him.For those who missed it, Trump, who can see the good side of Nazis who chant anti-Semitic slogans, expressed no such tolerance for anyone who […]
Here’s a scheduling insight, at least for the print end of the business:The Sunday paper being, in most markets, two or three or more times the size of the daily paper, the sections which can be printed in advance — chiefly Features, Classifieds and Editorial — are often done Friday in the late afternoon and […]
Canadian Gary Clement sums up international response to Dear Leader’s UN speech, with his own blind self-satisfaction being what makes the cartoon click.Every world leader is surrounded by sycophants, but I wonder how many hand-pick them for just that reason? There is something very Third Worldish about this, and that observation doesn’t change the situation. At […]
(Clay Jones) (Rob Rogers)I wasn’t sure which of these to lead with, so here’s a Juxtaposition in alphabetical order, on the topic of bringing out Sean Spicer as the punchline to Stephen Colbert’s Emmy monologue, which you can see here.You can scroll back from there and watch the whole monologue, but I thought it was […]
The whole world was watching, but French cartoonist Anne Derenne captured it best. I’ll come back to this after things settle in a little and a few more cartoons have appeared, but, in the meantime, she’s worked past the nonsensical rhetoric and seized upon the kernel of what that speech was about. We can parse the specifics, […]
David Horsey writes an appreciation of the musical “Hamilton,” praising the way it purposefully departs from a true historical setting in order to illuminate the timeless issues its real-world characters faced.Which may be the case (I haven’t seen it), and I don’t have a problem, for instance, with productions of “Hamlet” set in modern totalitarian […]
Matt Wuerker on the pending demise of competent, professional journalism, with a cartoon that both delights me and leaves me dismayed.He’s certainly right that journalism is in a world of hurt, though I hope he is only mourning the fact that people have free access to the news, and not blaming them for taking advantage […]
John Cole leads off today because, though this is a national cartoon, the Pennsylvania cartoonist hit with a local cartoon for those of us in New Hampshire.In case you missed it — and the Washington Post has a lovely editorial on it — Cole nails this utter nitwittery, which is that Kobach is head of […]
Cartoonists seem stumped by the Equifax hack. I don’t know when I’ve seen a topic inspire such a diversity of responses, and I’d be tempted to collect and discuss them, except that some are so wrong-headed that I’d run into a Prime Directive issue.Dan Wasserman has what I see as the best interpretation of it […]
First, this note: Editorial cartoonists should submit their “clown in a storm sewer” cartoons by Sunday night. A few of you have not yet turned yours in and there will be fines for late additions. Baby Blues reminds me that, yes, we did have this game when my boys were small, and it was fun and, […]
For the 40th anniversary of his murder in police custody, Dr. Jack & Curtis remember Steve Biko with a quote that, as they say, remains sadly relevant today, and certainly not just in South Africa.One of the “nice” things about the struggle against apartheid was that, particularly with the death of Biko and some other […]
Retail tries to ruin my mood, but the coffeeshop down the road already has their pumpkin-spice latte sign out, so my mood was pre-ruined for the season.I really like pumpkin pie. I like sweet potato pie more, because it tends to have more texture, but it’s also considerably more elusive, I guess because it’s a […]
As I write this, Irma is working her way through the South and Jose is brewing and Katia is out there and there’s probably no good time to talk about hurricanes, unless you wait until after the season ends.At which point we won’t care anymore and we’ll go back to talking about the next Bachelor […]
Pat Bagley on the continued in-fighting of the Democrats, as the Republicans look on.Not to suggest that the Republicans aren’t going through their own moment of self-destruction, and you can fault Bagley for the suggestion that they’re entirely in control of their own future. But, so far, they’re keeping most of their dirty laundry out […]