A years-long, physically-enforced sabbatical ended for Steve Sack last year when he returned to cartooning. Rob Tornoe at Editor & Publisher tells of Steve Sack’s Comeback. Journalists are used to overcoming adversity, but what if you’re a Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist and you suddenly can no longer hold a pencil? That’s the situation Steve Sack faced […]
Horsey may be exaggerating the infantile tantrums of our leader, but he’s reporting Jeff Bezos’ analysis accurately. Bezos genuinely told CNBC “I think he is a more mature, more disciplined version of himself than he was in his first term.”Bezos went on to say “I’ve worked with all the presidents, I will work with all the […]
Anderson offers a contrast that we should not only contemplate now but ready ourselves to deal with if and when the fever breaks. And that had better happen before Big Brother finishes wiping out the parts of history we aren’t supposed to remember.That’s neither a joke nor partisan exaggeration: WASHINGTON (AP) — The Department of […]
I wish more cartoonists had spoken up before Dear Leader reached his out-of-court settlement, but my impression is that it isn’t a done-deal yet, at least in part because his lawyers failed to file the appropriate papers. Which is the sort of thing that happens when you hire people who won’t tell you when you […]
Statues of famous people are not unusual in the United States: There is a statue of “Rocky Balboa” in Philadelphia and a slew of statues of real-life athletes as well. However, Wednesday’s dedication of a statue of Donald Trump on the grounds of his private club in Florida has drawn both praise and criticism, much […]
Today is Victory Day in Russia, though yesterday was VE Day elsewhere in the world. Russia marks the day the papers were signed, rather than the day the war ended. And today, as mentioned before, they’re marking the day with a parade that, Adams notes, doesn’t feature the usual display of weaponry, because their tanks […]
I came across a half-dozen or so cartoons about adding ballrooms to elementary schools, and it’s a fair point but I gather one of those fair points so obvious that it occurred to everybody. As noted yesterday, the ballroom is an absolutely stupid idea and the events at the WHCA dinner didn’t change that.But McKee […]
The Secretary of Greasy Kid Stuff is hardly the first leader to pervert the message of Christ into a call for killing. As noted here before, while in the West the word “crusade” has come to mean pursuing a goal, in the days of the Iraq War we discovered that, in the Middle East, it […]
One of the things I like about Australian cartoonists is their willingness to skip the niceties and get to the point. Wilcox notes the colossal series of missteps, lies and blunders Dear Leader has exhibited during his reign and yet he seems to be getting an equally colossal series of free passes.There are two odd […]
With Malcolm Evans, António Moreira Antunes, David Horsey, João Fazenda. Kevin Kallaugher, Bado, and Ann Telnaes. It’s a Disturbing World With the Whys of the United States attacking Iran on an ever-changing list of reasons, New Zealand editorial cartoonist Malcolm Evans brings up an old cartoon that illustrates one of the given rationales that changed […]
I woke up in the mood for a Humpday this morning, until I started going through the cartoons and realized there were more laughs in the rest of the paper. Granted, it’s dark humor, but dark humor is how you get through dark times, as the cultures of many repressed peoples attest.I got a laff, […]
The good news is that he hasn’t tried to declare the war all-but-over the way W did, or even the way Bramhall suggests he might. But it’s scant comfort, because at least when W did it, he was trying to fool us, and he did fool quite a few of us, though it didn’t last […]
Perhaps one reason Dear Leader never went to Congress to ask for a declaration of war or at least a positive War Powers ruling is that, as Telnaes suggests, he hasn’t got a rationale for the war, or, at least, one he can explain and is willing to stick with.He has said it was to […]
A response to the braggadocio in Dear Leader’s speech. It’s not unusual for the SOTU to include some blue sky self-praise to go along with the more serious policy discussions, but this claim was not only meaningless but flies in the face of the criticism we’ve been hearing both from other governments and from citizens […]
Bob Whitmore – Philanthropist Bob Whitmore, editorial cartoonist who was in the news last Summer, came across the feed recently when he combined his political cartooning with public service cartooning for radio station WMNF Tampa. Bob shares some of his Creative Loafing Tampa cartoons with WMNF and also does some extra work for the station. […]