I’m a recovering Catholic and have been for half a century or so, but it happens that even before I saw Necessary’s cartoon, I was thinking that they never should have stopped burning heretics at the stake. Not all heretics, mind you. Not me, certainly.I’m not Torquemada and I don’t insist on everyone becoming Roman […]
There’s an abundance of cartoons going around based on Melania Trump’s statement in which she denied a relationship with Jeffrey Epstein and called for public testimony from his victims. Huck satirizes her famous green raincoat to ask a central question, and it’s obvious from the other cartoonists that their answer is “No.” I wish it […]
This is as political as I’m going to get today, and I often have to decide whether Venables belongs in humor or politics. Here’s some of both. Maybe I’ll do a whole page of Pam Bondi cartoons later, but I’m not in the mood this morning.If nothing else, I remember endless Good Friday services as […]
Bagley and Telnaes are rarely this far apart politically, but that’s not the factor here: Bagley posted his cartoon prior to SCOTUS hearing the birthright citizen case, and Telnaes posted hers afterwards. It’s the difference between anticipation and realization, though I suppose what looks like an 8-1 or 7-2 victory for the plain-text of the […]
I’m disappointed that more cartoonists didn’t leap on Dear Leader’s appalling reaction to the death of Robert Mueller, though Wexler offered both this commentary and a traditional obituary piece. A brief discussion of a country expression: “Were you brought up in a barn?”It can be semi-affectionate, said to a kid who wore his hat to […]
This isn’t a Juxtaposition of the Day because it’s a Juxtaposition of 23 Years. Bramhall’s is current, Englehart’s ran back when we went into Iraq in 2003 with the same goal of stopping terror. Both cartoons comment on the foolishness of the effort, but Bramhall focuses on the president who blundered into a hopeless maze, […]
Nice timing on today’s Doonesbury, which was done some time ago but appears just as Dear Leader demonstrates his peacekeeping skills as well as his need for praise.Among editorial cartoonists, it was interesting to see who leapt into the fray and who did not. I recognize that some cartoonists may not be allowed to break […]
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 […]
President Donald Trump gives his State of the Union address tonight at 9 pm Eastern, one reason I miss living in Colorado, where news and sports came on at a decent hour. Winslow is right: 57% of Americans responding to a NPR/PBS News/Marist poll rate the State of the Union as poor, with the 43% […]
In case you missed it, Pam Bondi appeared before the House Judiciary Committee yesterday in order to throw an astonishing Mean Girl Hissy Fit because Representatives had the gall to ask her questions she didn’t want to answer. In another era, it would have been the end of her days in government, but she was […]
Danziger explained it all back in 2018, but it’s a much older story than that. For Americans, as everyone who paid attention in high school social studies knows, the issue of press freedom was raised when we were still a British colony. In 1734, New York’s royal governor charged John Peter Zenger‘s newspaper, The New […]
I was prepared to jump right into this very non-comical story, and the AAEC has released a statement on it, but I didn’t find enough cartoons this morning on the topic, so it’ll have to wait. But Slyngstad dropped two commentaries, this light-hearted iconic one and a more serious one that you’ll see when more […]
Anderson nails our current situation well in his latest piece, and addresses a matter that has bothered me for several years.As you can see from his sig, Ratt introduced the concept six years ago. I liked it then, but I couldn’t take the warning literally. It’s an oversimplification to say our Civil War was fought […]
Other cartoonists have suggested a “What would you say?” scenario over how Americans would be outraged if another country were to seize our president the way we grabbed Maduro, but Prickly City, as a strip, has the real estate to ask the question and propose a possible answer.And, as a strip, it has the ability […]
The reactions to Scott Adams‘ death, like the comments in our obituary, varied greatly depending on the point of view of those responding as whether they were or were not a fan of the cartoonist. President Trump and MAGA were fans, but…there had to be a better way to pay tribute to a cartoonist than […]