I went looking for interesting Thanksgiving cartoons of the past but didn’t find much I hadn’t seen repeatedly since. But having praised big, wide newspapers yesterday, I got a kick out of this 1925 piece by Gluyas Williams. As for this year’s Thanksgiving, Tom Tomorrow offers a panoramic survey of the mess we’re in. It’s […]
The expression “2 a.m. in the sophomore dorm” goes back at least to Usenet days. It refers to overly idealistic ideas and nonsensical proposals that arise in the wee hours of the morning among people who have not yet learned how the world works and who base their judgment on how the world should be […]
A whole lot of Halloween-themed cartoons are now obsolete, and so, perhaps, are a flood of cartoons about SNAP benefits, given that two separate courts ordered the funds distributed after all. (The “perhaps” being based on the potential for Dear Leader to ignore the courts, or to appeal the decisions.) For the next little while, […]
We’ll start with my annual Grinchy reminder that it was Linus, not Charlie Brown, who cut all those eyeholes into his sheet. This was Halloween, 1956, when Linus and Schroeder were still toddlers, before they hit the cutoff age where Peanuts characters stopped growing. However, it’s like Star Wars in that things are “canonical” rather […]
There are a lot of cartoons about the renovation/destruction of the White House, but I like Matson’s take because it not only captures the ambitious glorification involved but the combination of fantasy and madness behind the action. If nothing else, we no longer have to ask if Dear Leader believes the things he says, because […]
An excellent piece by Telnaes that can be taken a couple of ways. Certainly, the brutality of the lawless attacks has damaged our freedom, but you can also take Liberty as a personification of the American people and those who wish to be American and interpret the attacks as happening to all of us. An […]
Jimmy Kimmel is apparently back on the air, or will be tonight. I’m holding off my belief until it happens, but, even if it happens, Sinclair’s ABC stations won’t carry the program and we’ll see how viewers like that, but I’ll bet the FCC won’t land too hard on them for failing to serve their […]
The difference in our nation doesn’t get much starker than this, to which someone might say “Yeah, but how many people even remember Kennedy’s inauguration?” It’s a fair question. I turned 10 a week after he was inaugurated, so I remember him, but not in a political context. I remember that he was president and […]
Several reversals to cover today, so we’ll start with one Steve Kelley probably wishes he could have back. The cartoon is based on an incident in Thursday night’s Philadelphia/Dallas game in which Eagles player Jalen Carter was ejected for spitting on Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott, which Kelley transformed into an accusation that leftists are spitting […]
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 […]
Let’s Get Political We are used to Non Sequitur going political, and even Herb and Jamaal and Over the Hedge voice their opinions of the government more frequently these days. But it comes as a surprise when Wizard of Id and Thatababy get digs in at the government. Dave Whamond pulls an old (2002) Dave […]
I hope Ratt is right. He seems to be right about who is to blame and why. These aren’t the only suspects, but they’re the main figures in the process, which is less a conspiracy than a flow that includes past politicians like Newt Gingrich and Grover Norquist, and entertainment figures who have created a […]
Mellor sets the stage for last week’s Alaskan summit meeting with an homage to David Low’s classic Rendezvous. There are differences between Hitler and Stalin meeting over the corpse of Poland and Trump and Putin meeting over Ukraine, with the major difference being that Ukraine is not only still alive but defiant. The other difference […]
The National Cartoonists Society announced the winners of their Reuben Awards for the year 2024 in Boston on Friday August 15, 2025. Below are the nominees and the winners. *Still trying to suss out all the winners, help would be appreciated The National Cartoonists Society has posted the list of Reuben Award winners. The 79th […]
There was a flurry of cartoons and wisecracks yesterday after Dear Leader appeared on the White House roof and wandered around for a bit, talking to the press below. I don’t know that it really indicated much of anything beyond a president with too much time on his hands, but Randy Bish managed to bring […]