Wilcox sums it all up. Thanks for coming and don’t forget to tip your wait staff.However, there are several ways of explaining where we’re at, though the most cogent seem to come from overseas. Perhaps a little distance helps with the focus. Whether it works that way, clicking those links to see where the cartoonists […]
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, […]
Pett lays it out: It’s not so much that people resent the wealthy. It’s that they resent the wealthy standing on their throats. They resent living paycheck-to-paycheck in a world in which CEOs make 285 times what they pay their workers. And, assuming there is no compromise by year’s end, they’ll resent watching the uber-wealthy […]
This is a recasting of a Currier & Ives poster of Patrick Henry giving his “Liberty or Death” speech, in which he sounded a warning to King George and, in response to cries of “Treason!” from other legislators, replied “If this be treason, then make the most of it!”I’ve seen posts on social media about […]
In the early nineties, I spent countless hours digging through foreign publications, hunting for lessons and inspiration. I translated articles, wrote essays, and hoped my fellow Iranian artists would catch the spark I felt. I wanted them to see the magic tucked between the lines, the way Western cartoonists held power to account with nothing […]
Rowe gets a laugh out of Dear Leader’s attack on Iran despite feeling it represents the death of the UN Charter, because there’s absurdity in the arrogance and chaos in the messaging.One of the factors in our liberation of Kuwait was that GHWB had obtained cooperation from a wide array of allies, and then stopped […]
I wasn’t sure which end of the Joni Ernst cascade to start with, but I like how Wuerker lays the debacle at the feet of the Republican Party. Ernst was challenged at a townhall by someone calling out that people would die as a result of GOP cutbacks to Medicaid, to which she responded that […]
As reported a couple days ago there are thieves stealing political cartoons, re-imagining them by the use of Artificial Intelligence and then passing them off as their own original creations. Once the practice became public knowledge (thank you Pedro X. Molina) cartoonists and fans began to take action. From Kevin Kallaugher: We are rallying support […]
I couldn’t decide whether to comment on politics today or pick out some funny stuff from the comics page, so I’ll compromise and discuss the ridiculous flying emolument, which Anderson accurately depicts as a clear example of corruption and self-dealing. Clarence Thomas must certainly be gnashing his teeth over having sold out for so little, […]
There’s a lot of rebranding going around these days, as various organizations and individuals decide if they’re going to resist or surrender. Columbia has decided to behave itself and let the government dictate what they teach and what rules they set for their students, which is kind of funny given how well the fellow now […]
Joe Heller explains how we have responded to the collision of a passenger plane with a military helicopter. We’re not waiting for investigators to sort through what happened, because we know who is at fault. Liberals believe it’s because 10 days ago changes were made in the top ranks of the FAA which immediately filtered […]
I could launch a separate blog titled “Cartoon Maps,” given the number of cartoonists who have reimagined the Western Hemisphere according to Trump. Some were pretty good, some were not. But Bob Englehart went for simplicity rather than cleverness, and wins for going to the heart of the matter and pointing out the arrogant jingoism […]
Gary Varvel (Counterpoint) starts us out today with a trusty conservative talking point for Thanksgiving, but, as they say, “That ol’ dog won’t hunt.” Not at this point.We can debate over whose policies did more to add to national debt, with the understanding that conservatives have a lot invested in the accusation of “tax and […]
I suspect Biden’s decision to let Ukraine fire US-supplied missiles over its border, and his decision to supply the Ukrainians with anti-personnel mines, were an effort to shore up their defenses before Trump comes into office and begins catering to his great good friend Putin. He may well choke off their aid, but it would […]
Michael deAdderBen GarrisonWe won’t get through all the emerging political cartoons about the election today, but here are the bookends: de Adder sees it as the monster returning, referencing Poltergeist, the 1982 horror film about a gateway opening up to the other side, while Garrison cites the Magnificent Seven, in which a group of heroes […]