Belgian cartoonist Descheemaeker has been busy and his page at Cartoon Movement is worth visiting to see his commentaries on the invasion of Venezuela. I particularly like this piece, first of all for the artistry, but also because “Pirates of the Caribbean” is an example of cultural hegemony, in that the phrase would not come […]
Good advice from one traditional figure of the new year to another. Some years, the editorial cartoons look forward to progress and improvements, but this isn’t one of those years and nobody has any grand expectations for 2026. It’s also traditional for killjoys like myself to point out that, while a few new laws have […]
I’m somewhat surprised at the number of cartoons about the Pope still being done, but Schot has done a nice job of contrasting Leo XIV with Donald Trump. It’s almost cheating to simply lay out the differences like this, but I’ve often said political cartoonists should be journalists, and there’s nothing wrong with reporting if […]
Telnaes offers a State of the Union commentary at the Contrarian, one of the stronger arms of the resistance. Not only do they offer solid commentary by qualified writers, but they’ve added political cartoons. Ann Telnaes is well-positioned to address the topic, because aside from her own cartooning, she is active in the global free-press […]
I suppose the best place to begin is with the USMCA which replaced NAFTA which replaced the FTA, NAFTA having brought Mexico under the trade umbrella that began with the US and Canada.It wasn’t completely clear at the time why President Donald Trump felt compelled to redraw NAFTA, but he saw things in the old […]
Gary Varvel (Creators) reports that paratroopers are landing in North Carolina, apparently in search of undocumented migrants. As you may know, Columbia University is basically a concrete campus in the middle of Manhattan, so, obviously, this is some other Columbia.Now, somebody is going to point out that there are many places named “Columbia,” but you […]
Morten Morland offers his own version of Desolation Row, as the United States pulls down thoughtfulness and erects a golden calf, an accusation of sacrilege you’d never see on the editorial pages of the Washington Post (but only because it would be repetitive).Dylan began his lyrics with a reference to a 1920 lynching in Duluth […]
There’s been a lot of chatter down in the Antipodes about the high cost of housing, and so it makes sense that Matt Golding would go international with this example of an American couple who has found a place to live rent-free. It might take you a moment to examine where they’re living to get […]
David Cohen comments on Louisiana’s “police buffer law,” which went into effect this month and prohibits reporters or others at the scene of an incident being within 25 feet of an officer who has ordered them back. This seems like a solution in search of a problem, unless the problem you’re attempting to solve is […]
I wish I didn’t like Megan Herbert‘s commentary so much.Advent calendars have become so commercialized that it’s not easy to find ones that just offer a small picture of a candy cane or something similarly of the season, hearkening back to a time when we were excited by the approach of Christmas but more easily […]
Life between the ages of 15 and 20 seems purposely geared to be annoying. In my case, those years coincided with Get Smart, which Jack Davis drew here and it’s always fun to feature his work.Get Smart itself, however, began as a clever sitcom but then became repetitive and predictable, which would have been okay […]
Crowden Satz outlines Trump’s approach so far to his indictments. He really hasn’t responded to them so much as insisted that he did nothing wrong — though there’s plenty of evidence that he knows he was breaking the law — and played a game of whataboutism, heavily larded with false accusations about others who have […]
It used to be a tradition this time of year to break the fourth wall and wish readers a Merry Christmas, these being some examples by classic strips back in 1925. I didn’t see many examples today, though it may be that, come next Friday, more cartoonists will do that. It’s a clumsy situation to have […]
Graeme MacKay offers some advice for those working from home.Several decades ago — the kids are in their 40s now — I used to write at home and manage kids, so my patience with people who cartoon about the impossibility of that is fairly limited, though I guess it’s easier if you’ve been doing it […]
I wouldn’t have brought up Harry and Meghan so prematurely the other day if I’d realized how much their decision to put their marriage ahead of parental expectations was going to explode into an international incident.I like Steve Sack‘s take because it tells the tale so simply, like finding out that Orr paddled all the […]