Hearst editorial page editor John Breunig asks, “Why are editorial cartoonists drawn to Donald Trump?” (or here). How would Dr. Seuss have drawn President Donald Trump? This is what I’m thinking as we launch a new feature showcasing political cartoons of the previous month. Satirists seem to be competing to see who can sketch the […]
Chappatte had the home field advantage in Davos and anticipated Trump’s disruptive arrival with this cartoon for Le Temps of Geneva, and, though it ran Wednesday morning, he included specific elements — in particular the NATO emblem — that came up in Trump’s speech.I use the term “speech” guardedly. I got in the car yesterday […]
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 […]
Creating a multi-panel, multi-gag comic poses an obvious problem: You have to be insightful with each panel, and most cartoonists do well to produce five in a row when they’re producing a single comic each day without trying to tie them all into a specific theme.McFadden is lucky while the rest of us are not, […]
Donald Trump is not a lame duck. No offense to Wexler, who is just passing along the current meaning of the term, but the original meaning mattered.The term comes from before 1933, when newly elected officials didn’t take office until March. That left a four month period that featured legislators who had no mandate and […]
I had intended to run a collection of Reiner/Trump cartoons to show the depth of rejection Trump’s insane post had sparked, but Campbell sums it up. There’s not much more to be said, and the people who are shocked are shocked and the people who cannot be shocked are not.I liked Bramhall’s take, but its […]
Not sure what motivated Bennett on this one, but I know why it resonated with me. For some half a century, I imposed journalistic ethics on myself and did not register with a political party. Granted, I was generally in sympathy with one over the other, but I never voted a straight ticket and some […]
For those keeping track, Mamdani won’t be mayor of NYC for another month, so it’s a little early to be panicking over what he might do if he becomes the first candidate in recorded history to accomplish everything he promised.Though I say that as someone who lives in a small (14,300) city with free public […]
This certainly set a foul mood for the day. It’s perfectly valid to criticize Hamas, or the Netanyahu government, or ours. But I cannot understand the editing process by which this got through at Tribune or posted at GoComics, and I sincerely hope no newspaper editor would choose to run this hateful slandering of two […]
KAL on “Cartoonists Under Siege” Profs and Pints DC will feature an evening with Kevin (KAL) Kallaugher. Profs and Pints DC presents: “Cartoonists Under Siege,” on the rich history and uncertain future of political cartooning, with Kevin “KAL” Kallaugher, award-winning editorial cartoonist for The Economist, former artist in residence at the University of Maryland, Baltimore […]
Today is the day for the No Kings demonstrations. Even if I’d forgotten, I’d know because Facebook was crammed this morning with rightwing screeds against it, largely colored, as Telnaes suggests, by people who claim to love the country but seem to be doing all they can to undermine the Constitution and do away with […]
A bit of a gentle start, since things may get a little rough before we’d done. Granted, Horsey makes Russ Vought look like a mad scientist, offering America a trip in his time machine.But it could be worse, because, beyond that, what Vought offers is a trip back to a time that colors the notion […]
*A government action “that could never happen here.”We start with a couple Letters to the Editor. To the Cleveland Plain Dealer: When it comes to the Comey indictment, cartoonist Dana Summers has trouble telling R’s from D’s Editorial cartoonist Dana Summers, in his “Payback” cartoon in the Sept. 29 Plain Dealer, apparently believes the indictment […]
There is an old, unproven concept that, if at one of his early mass rallies someone had snuck up behind Hitler and yanked his pants down, it would have so destroyed his strong-man mystique that he never would have come to power and World War II would have been avoided.But by the time he was […]
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. […]