Joy of Tech takes on the Cambridge Analytica case, and, because it’s a multi-panel cartoon, it’s possible to agree with parts of their take and disagree with others.First of all, here’s a complete takedown on what happened and why, (it’s long; read it later) and it ought to both scare and infuriate you.It should scare […]
I wouldn’t know where to start if Ruben Bolling hadn’t coincidentally snipped this bit from a previous Tom the Dancing Bug to run in his Super-Fun-Pak Comix feature today. Without bothering to research when the original, larger comic parody ran, this piece clearly is from the Trump era because it’s made up of things foolish […]
Joy of Tech hit me at a good moment with this one, because I generally decline opportunities to be spammed, though more politely than this fellow. But, of course, it wouldn’t be funny if he didn’t explode.However, I nearly exploded yesterday, as I was followed around the grocery store by a woman determined to tell […]
I’m assuming that, by the time many of you read this, Al Franken will have resigned his Senate seat, and I’m posting Steve Sack’s take for two reasons:One is that he’s the cartoonist for the Minneapolis Star-Tribune and thus has standing to criticize his home state’s senator.The other is that he goes after the “innocent […]
Here’s a scheduling insight, at least for the print end of the business:The Sunday paper being, in most markets, two or three or more times the size of the daily paper, the sections which can be printed in advance — chiefly Features, Classifieds and Editorial — are often done Friday in the late afternoon and […]
Amid several other cartoonists’ attempts, Jeff Stahler gets the best perspective on the phony phone call issue.This isn’t a particularly profound cartoon, but attempts to place the claim in more profound contexts have fallen flat, I think because they’ve attempted to put the President’s lies in a rational setting that goes beyond the self-preservation instincts […]
Jeff Stahler does a nice job of exploiting the joke of the day in a manner that ties it into an actual event, since the Scripps National Spelling Bee is, in fact, happening as we speak.Someone criticized him on Facebook for taking up such a silly moment, and I’ve seen a couple of complaints that, […]
Pajama Diaries has always provided me with smiles, as Jill works within the home-office atmosphere I adopted for many years. But as the girls morph into teens, it’s taking on new elements of nostalgia. Jill (and cartoonist Terri Libenson) have a pair of girls while I had a pair of boys, but there are plenty […]
(Matt Davies) (Jen Sorensen)Reponse to the Panama Papers has been pretty much all over the place, and this juxtaposition represents what I think is the best reaction so far, threading the needle between expecting the revelations to touch off a firestorm and dismissing it with the Will Rogers’ faux-wisdom of “they all do it.”Neither Davies nor […]
(Robert Ariail)NEW YORK — A former Goldman Sachs trader who earned the nickname “Fabulous Fab” was found liable Thursday in a fraud case brought by federal regulators in response to the 2007 mortgage crisis that helped push the country into recession. A jury reached the verdict at the civil trial in Manhattan federal court of […]
Nelson Mandela — “Madiba” (his clan name in Xhosa, used affectionately throughout his multicultural nation) — turns 94 today, and South African cartoonists joined in a sort of benevolent conspiracy to wish him a happy birthday. My favorite is this gentle thank-you from Nanda Soobben, which is not only a very nice caricature of the man […]
It’s no longer news that Mike Keefe of the Denver Post has won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning, but, in the days that followed, the portfolios of the runners-up, Matt Davies and Joel Pett, have also come to light.So here’s a chance to see 60 pretty doggone good cartoons by simply clicking on […]