Tom Toles explains the Democratic race in four panels.I’ve seen purists and True Believers in both camps, and I am trying very hard to believe they are at the extreme edge and that the bulk of both Bernie and Hillary supporters will hold their noses and vote if their chosen candidate doesn’t get the nod.It […]
Well, the Foothills, anyway. I’d love to be up in the mountains, but the glimpse of them on the way from the airport to the conference hotel will have to do.Speaking of the airport, it didn’t take long to see that there’s some excitement going on around here.My sister, who lives here, sent me a […]
There was a quick flurry of Sean Penn gags in the political cartooning sector, and I emphasize “gags” because none of them made a coherent point beyond “Hollywood celebrities sure are flaky liberals.”Which ignores the massive number of flaky conservative Hollywood celebrities, but never mind. Signe Wilkinson cuts through that burst of pointlessness to the main […]
(David Horsey) (Clay Jones)Today’s lead-off juxtaposition is a meditation on a house divided not between Republicans and Democrats so much as between those with faith in democracy and those with a paranoid fear of both authority and of “intruders” in their Mythological America.As Horsey points out in the cartoon and, more pointedly, in the essay accompanying it, […]
Amid a torrent of mediocre cartoons about security at the Sochi Olympics and predictably partisan back-and-forth views of tonight’s State of the Union (all of which, in both categories, seem to be hoping for an I-told-you-so disaster), comes this quiet, pointed commentary from Tom Tomorrow.Not only does it stand out because everyone else seems to […]