With Derf Backderf, Bill Dyer, Tim Atseff, Mike Luckovich, Steve Kelley, Terry Mosher, Joel Pett, and Ron Cobb.Derf BackderfAnnie Nickoloff for Cleveland Magazine interviews Derf (John) Backderf about this his new book The Dissidents, a graphic history about “the artists who worked for New York City’s The Masses, a socialist political magazine of the early […]
Indeed c’est le weekend, and while there are a lot of very important political issues to address, to quote Shakespeare or possibly Harold Pinter, “Tragedy tomorrow; Comedy tonight.”Besides, I don’t have enough information about the president’s physical beyond the release from the White House, where they report that he’s 6’3″ and weighs 238 pounds, so […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: This was written in the early hours of the morning before American participation was announced. I see no reason to make any changes beyond acknowledging the announcement.This is indeed the new normal. We’re kept up to date on the weather, but the possibility that we were about to be involved in a war […]
Today is a sort of cartoonists’ holiday. Nobody takes Groundhog Day seriously, except the Chamber of Commerce in Punxsutawney, obviously, but there it is and gag cartoonists can pop out something and enjoy a short day.Editorial cartoonists can get their compensation sometime later in the year by showing Bill Murray waking up to another round […]
Dear Leader’s urge for Lebensraum is getting a frosty reception in the Great White North, as Aislin indicates. Apparently they won’t drink his Kool-Aid (yes, yes, “Flavor-Aid”) up there. And if they did, they’d likely have to pay a tariff on it, because their government isn’t taking the trade war lying down.Here’s another view from […]
Welcome to Montreal, home of Westmount High, alma mater of Kamala Harris, who, as Terry Mosher (Aislin) reminded us, lived here for a few years when her mother was a professor at McGill.There will be a lot of graphics today, so the prose will be sparse, and note that a lot was shot at an […]
I promised more coverage if there were more cartoons about the VP Debate, so we’ll start with Walt Handelsman’s contribution, because the buried joke here is that the undecideds didn’t likely watch the debate but he’s right that they are likely still peddling the same-old-same-old excuse. It’s so much better than admitting that you can’t […]
When Joe Biden announced his decision to step aside yesterday, I posted on Facebook “Political cartoonists to your drawing boards. I’ll be looking for material in 12 hours.” I needn’t have prodded them, because at 3 a.m. I found far more material available than I could use, and not nearly as many repeats of the […]
Aislin starts off our D-Day commemoration in part because the Canadians tend to get bunched in with the British forces in other commentaries I’ve seen, but mostly because he marks the day by remembering strong, young men while most others are depicting old guys in wheelchairs, sometimes saluting. Saluting happens in cartoons on military holidays: […]
Here sits the New York trial of Donald Trump for falsifying his campaign expenditures: The testimony is over, the jury is deliberating and, as Lisa Benson (Counterpoint) depicts it, both Republicans and Democrats are awaiting a verdict, along with the nation.She appears to suggest that, while the political parties see things in immediate, pragmatic terms, […]
We’re not doing politics today, but Rod Emmerson‘s cartoon is a combination of politics and social commentary, since in New Zealand, as this article from his paper explains, masks remain mandated for everyone in some settings and for employees in others, but are being largely discarded by the public in places where covid infections are […]
Aislan quotes Pascal and I think puts his finger on not just the moment but why the moment is happening.I’ve often worried aloud about kids who have telephones and music plugged into their ears at all times: Will they learn to think with no experience of solitude?My grandfather said that, before sound recording, they could […]
Joy of Tech has me nailed fairly well.Their site is currently polling visitors to ask how much their lives have changed and I ticked the box for “It’s different, but not that different.”I haven’t done a videochat in a couple of years and never even bothered to mount Skype on my last several computers, while […]
In today’s Medium Large, Francesco Marciuliano speaks for many, I’m sure, though he has the advantage of a strip that is extremely meta, such that commenting on commenting is within his mission.Other cartoonists are in a position similar to 9/11, because they are required to say something at a moment when it’s hard to do […]