An(n) AwardAs reported earlier this month Ann Telnaes was to receive the 2025 William Randolph Hearst Award. And so she did. Ward Sutton posted a picture with Ann holding the award, with Mark Fiore also in attendance. Wuerker Related Also this month Mike Rhode visited editorial cartoonist Matt Wuerker and took a baker’s dozen of […]
This may seem like an odd place to start, but it’s actually perfect. In case you missed it, FIFA, the organization that runs the World Cup tournament, recently announced that it has a brand-new Peace Prize and strongly hinted that it will present it to Donald Trump on December 5 when they draw the matches […]
Bravo to Konopacki for making intelligent use of a moment in Casablanca that has become an insipid cliché in other hands. Saying “I’m shocked! Shocked!” merely makes the point that someone is pretending not to have known something they certainly did, which, most times, is obvious. (Yawn)But Konopacki uses it in perfect context: In the […]
I was just remembering all the time I spent in the principal’s office in high school, and here’s Andertoons pinging those memories again. The only time I was in there for anything serious was when I was caught smoking in the boys’ room (which would make a good song!). The others mostly involved mischief.It wasn’t […]
Ann Telnaes provokes a response of “Well, yes, but no …”I think I’m done wondering whether Trump is a deliberate liar or truly believes the preposterous nonsense he says. I’ve compared him in the past to OJ Simpson and Jeffrey MacDonald, both of whom denied murders that they most assuredly committed. I think they were […]
I don’t live in New York City, or even close enough to feel its presence, and so, no, I’m not scared about who they’re going to elect as mayor tomorrow. I do find it interesting, however, because Mamdani is making a lot of promises, some of which I’m pretty sure he can pull off, some […]
There are a lot of cartoons about the renovation/destruction of the White House, but I like Matson’s take because it not only captures the ambitious glorification involved but the combination of fantasy and madness behind the action.If nothing else, we no longer have to ask if Dear Leader believes the things he says, because as […]
So there were a few Elvis sightings that came across my feed among the No Kings protests, though Jeff Weigel of The Sunday Phantom fame went with a different King. Jeff went with Jack “King” Kirby art from 1966. Ann Telnaes offered her cartoons as images for signs (as did Liza Donnelly and Steve Brodner). […]
Today is the day for the No Kings demonstrations. Even if I’d forgotten, I’d know because Facebook was crammed this morning with rightwing screeds against it, largely colored, as Telnaes suggests, by people who claim to love the country but seem to be doing all they can to undermine the Constitution and do away with […]
An excellent piece by Telnaes that can be taken a couple of ways. Certainly, the brutality of the lawless attacks has damaged our freedom, but you can also take Liberty as a personification of the American people and those who wish to be American and interpret the attacks as happening to all of us.An eagle, […]
We’ll start with a cartoon from Australia that suggests two responses from up here: One is “Glad we could amuse you,” since we have to live with the chaos she depicts. But that draws a second response of “Thank god you’re watching,” because we’d sure hate to have all this unfolding without witnesses.And if the […]
In January, the Washington Post spiked a cartoon by Pulitzer Prize–winning Ann Telnaes that criticized the supplicant attitude displayed by the paper’s billionaire owner, Jeff Bezos, towards Donald Trump … She promptly resigned after the incident, the first time one of her pieces had been rejected over its subject. For 31 years, KAL contributed his […]
Does anybody even care about Ronald Reagan anymore? His presidency (1981-89) is cited as the starting point for the Republican revolution, though many more politicians and commentators were involved in that movement. But Reagan was more than a figurehead; he was active and charismatic and, as Ohman recalls, intent on uniting the nation, even if […]
There are approximately one kabillion Tylenol cartoons out there, but I’m letting Marlette speak to the topic, because Dear Leader did an absolutely masterful job of throwing up a distraction. Not only are the editorial pages full of Tylenol commentary but there are news features and social media postings explaining just how inaccurate the warning […]
David Haldane, One of the World’s Best Cartoonists David Haldane is set to appear at The Word, in South Shields, on Wednesday, September 24, as part of the venue’s WRITE Festival. Ryan Smith at The Shields Gazette proudly announces the appearance of their homegrown cartoonist David Haldane, who became “one of the world’s best cartoonists,” […]