Bennett commented that this cartoon is based on an old joke; I assume it’s the one about the fellow who fell 14 stories and fortunately survived, but, unfortunately, had fallen from15.I have no idea how many stories we’ve fallen so far, but I know it’s going to be a mess when we hit the ground. […]
Sorensen is right. We get righteously upset about cruelty and stupidity and dishonesty … and then the fire dies down and it all becomes normal.The challenge we face as we slip into fascism is maintaining some level of outrage. If nothing else, our grandchildren will wonder how we could sit back and just watch it […]
Call it media illiteracy. It’s the pervasive lack of knowledge about what a political cartoon is supposed to be, and what it’s supposed to do — provoke thought and, yes, even disagreement. Instead of understanding that, many people leap to the faulty conclusion that since the editorial commentary comes in the form of a cartoon, […]
Dear Leader has announced another set of tariffs, which he claims will likely be modified once he has concluded trade deals with the nations involved, which is most of them, or possibly more than all of them, since he once said “There’s 200 countries. You can’t talk to all of them.’’You certainly can’t, because there […]
As I’m writing this, the House is in an all-night session, not so much debating Trump’s major bill as seeing which side can hold on longest. By time you read it, we may know the answer.But what we already know is that there is a cult of personality and an atmosphere of fear governing Congress. […]
This is one of those “where do we start?” days, but we might as well begin with the massive element of self-deception that makes everything possible. Part of it is embodied in the way so many people seem to be accepting both the inevitability and the desirability of our heading off to yet another war […]
For reasons unexplained I have dozens of cartoonist self-caricatures. Before deleting them thought I’d share ’em. So… Not enough? Hundreds more at…
Today is the day we’ve all been waiting for, either as a coronation of the king or as a moment of unified rebellion against egotism and fascism. Looks like God is planning a test of his own, to see how many people will turn out in the rain either to cheer or to protest.I’m often […]
Tomorrow is the Big Parade, and, in Pett’s cartoon, King Donald wonders why nobody is saluting as the horrors of the past five months pass in review. “One man’s meat is another man’s poison” works in reverse as well, however, and there are plenty of people in this country joyfully feasting on what has happened […]
Major Strasser: Captain Renault, are you entirely certain which side you are on?Louis Renault: I have no conviction, if that’s what you mean. I blow with the wind, and the prevailing wind happens to be from Vichy.Tom Tomorrow unleashes a torrent of nonsense, almost entirely things Donald Trump never said, but much of which echoes […]
Guilford College’s Every Campus A Refuge (ECAR) program is receiving more national recognition. Only this time the attention is coming from an unexpected source: a comic strip. Josh Neufeld, a writer and artist whose work has appeared in The Washington Post and The New York Times, published a comic strip earlier this month in The Boston Globe that […]
A sudden explosion in Trump Always Chickens Out references, caused by a sudden explosion in the White House press room because some nasty reporter asked the TACO how he felt about being called a taco.One of those things we warn 4-year-olds about: When you react like that, it just encourages them. So now there are […]
Two Prize – Herblock and Pulitzer – stories. Mike Rhode at Comics DC brings a few exclusive pictures of the Herblock Prize awards ceremony. At the moment it is the only news I found about the 2025 presentation, which featured winner Marty Two Bulls, Sr. with a video acceptance and Lalo Alcaraz in discussion with […]
Ann Telnaes originally posted this a year ago, but brought it back recently to comment on the flourishing of AI. Then someone re-posted this segment with a link to the full piece:That fragment zeros in on the main problem with AI. Whether it’s graphic art, writing, music or whatever, the essence of art is translating […]
Cartooning Pope Leo XIV Pat Byrnes and the newspaper he rode in on is taken to task by a Yakima Herald-Republic reader: To the editor — I’m Catholic and from Chicago and celebrating the election of the new Pope. But your May 13 cartoon on the editorial page went too far. The depicted “communion wafers” […]