We all know newspapers have seen better days. As Alex Hallatt notes in her latest “Cartooning in the Age of AI” installment at her Illustrated Epistle Substack cartoonists “need multiple sources of income” not least because: Surviving newspaper websites and are losing views to AI searches (which show newspaper content without the reader needing to […]
Pearls Before Swine offers the best possible kickoff for Friday Funnies, and I couldn’t be more pleased to not do politics today.Even if I were in the mood, it’s going to take me a little while to process the apparent fact that Bill Clinton is once again our president. Or something. Anyway, he’s suddenly all […]
Bob Englehart captures my current feelings about the Florida school shootings, and it’s a mix of shame and anger.Shame because we should care and I do care, and so I feel a little guilty when I turn off the TV because I’m tired of the coverage and wish they’d talk about Meuller’s indictments or something […]
I felt like we’d had enough politics for a while and so was delighted to find a funny little cartoon about a rat …And, boy, is he right. Trump finally announced his awards for “fake news” and they don’t stand up to much examination, being, for the most part, mistakes the press quickly recognized and for […]
Leading off today with Non Sequitur and a bit of a fantasy.Not the Godzilla part. The cutting yourself off from the world part.I’d like to retreat back to the 19th Century, when you worked hard, yes, and I’d have probably died from my appendicitis 30 years ago, but it’s attractive to think of living back […]
The Good News first: As seen in this cartoon by Australian cartoonist Glen Le Lievre, Eaten Fish, the young Iranian cartoonist imprisoned in an Australian detention camp, has been freed and taken to an undisclosed safe city in Northern Europe.I wrote about Eaten Fish in this February posting about press freedom and responsibility.A lot of […]
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 […]
Bill Sanders makes the point graphically that has been under discussion here: Trump is not a baby ignorantly blundering into trouble but, rather, a defiant brat.And Ed Hall makes the further point that Trump is once more playing to his white supremacist base.I’m a little disappointed that the major coverage of the pardon simply states […]
Let’s start with Nick Anderson’s commentary on the Senate Healthcare Bill. It’s colorful and it cracked me up and Mitch McConnell running away with his pants on fire is not only funny but a nice alternative to the Brer Tortoise personna most cartoonists have adopted for him. (Perhaps the royalties from that are why Jon Stewart […]
Paul Ryan’s bizarre defense of the President has struck a lot of people as funny, at least in the peculiar sense if not the ha-ha sense, and Kevin Siers makes a nice meld of Ryan’s loyal explanation that his party’s figurehead is simply incompetent with Trump’s delusional sense of self-importance.It’s an example of a style […]
I’m gonna hold off on a full Trumpcare rant for a bit while the cartoonists catch up, but Michael deAdder nailed it for me.My cancer treatment was covered by Medicare, but the casual relationship with my primary care physician was built earlier, under the Affordable Care Act.That is, the testing was touched off by a transitory […]
Adam Zyglis points out the vast number of positions and promises that Donald Trump has abandoned since he took office.He’s right and it’s a good way to put them all in one place, and, in another context, it might be damaging.John Kerry’s presidential campaign was deeply wounded by both relatively benign and deliberately misinterpreted accusations of […]
(Pearls Before Swine) (Lola)A juxtaposition on a rant familiar to those who follow this blog: Who is your audience and are you excluding young readers who form the future?Apparently, judging by this pair, the answer to the first part is “People in their forties,” which isn’t such a bad thing, though it doesn’t address the […]
Yes, I agree with Soup to Nutz and am continuing my experiment of putting the blog together before I look at Facebook.So far, so good. Though Jeff Stahler got me a little fired up, because the topic of phony “therapy dogs” came up at the park the other day.I’m old enough to remember when people made jokes […]
In the essay that goes with today’s cartoon, Clay Jones concedes that he’s doing more reporting than satirizing, and I have no problem with that. Sometimes that’s all you need to do.At least that’s what we thought before the election, when we were certain that simply exposing the ridiculous contradictions and outright lies would alert […]