Tagged as: ed hall

“Truth and Illusion, George. You don’t know the difference.” “No, but we must carry on as though we did.” “Amen.”                                        — Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? I was delighted to see Jen Sorensen address the stereotype that […]

It’s been a tough week for people who enjoy competition.Sunday night, the Super Bowl, predicted to be a high-scoring gunfight, turned into a one-sided, boring affair, and then yesterday, the opening of Trump’s second impeachment trial did the same.Michael Ramirez (Creators) sums it up: Trump’s legal team barely showed up, opening with empty, pointless blathering […]

Leading off with a graphic summary by Graeme Bandeira (Yorkshire Post).A slight criticism: I think the caption detracts from the impact, but, then again, viewing us from across the Atlantic likely makes our willingness to execute people seem part and parcel of an uncivilized character. Paul Thomas (Daily Mail) being perhaps a bit more direct in […]

I couldn’t decide where to start this morning until I had settled on the headline, at which point it made sense to start here: Put up or shut up, Steve Kelley (Creators.)Show your evidence of fraud and illegality. Seriously. Do it.While you’re at it, explain why experienced attorneys and professional politicians who wanted to challenge […]

There isn’t much to say about Mitch McConnell, and Ann Telnaes (WashPost) appears to have said it all right here.Of course, the ball is still in play, and let’s all admit we didn’t expect the House to come up with a 2/3’s majority to get that $2,000 check back on the field.Nothing is dead until […]

Oddly enough, I had just been thinking about the term “grasping at straws” before I saw this Ed Hall (Ind) cartoon.Technically, the straws should be floating on the surface, the expression meaning that a drowning man will look for even the most futile support, but I like Hall’s shower of useless efforts and it certainly […]

Morten Morland (London Times) provides a pretty good picture of what Joe Biden is facing. Between things that never happened and things that never should have happened, this isn’t going to be a matter of quietly continuing but of a massive cleanup.The good news is that, having been a vice-president who was genuinely consulted and […]

Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning. — Winston Churchill, Nov 10, 1942Juxtaposition of the Past Four Years(David Rowe, Australian Financial Review, 2016) (David Rowe, Australian Financial Review, 2020)David Rowe bookends the Trump presidency, offering a conclusion to what […]

Thank you for coming. Don’t forget to tip your waitress. Drive safely!No, wait — though Hamill said it all, there was a bit more more reaction, including a fundraising appeal that the Trump/Pence campaign sent out on Facebook, boasting of the President’s convincing victory over Biden.Which might have been more convincing if someone hadn’t accidentally […]

I wasn’t expecting to run more “hypocrisy” cartoons — the issue is out there, everyone knows it, there’s little more to be said. And then Matt Davies made me giggle.As noted before, it’s not hypocrisy. Hypocrisy is when you say “Nobody should do this” and then do it yourself. There’s nothing hypocritical in McConnell consistently […]

 A lot of cartoonists are posting their original 9/11 cartoons this week. Here’s what I was doing then.It was the start of the school year, which put a real burden on teachers, since they didn’t really know their kids yet and suddenly had to guide them through this horrific event. Fortunately, in a macabre way, […]

DD Degg covered the basics of the uproar over the Australian’s anti-Biden cartoon, though things haven’t settled down yet.The editor-in-chief has called upon on those who work at the paper to defend the piece on the basis of comradeship, because we’re all in this together and so forth, and News Corp Australia’s CEO then passed […]

“All you need to start an asylum is an empty room and the right kind of people.” — Alexander Bullock (My Man Godfrey)Ed Hall‘s cartoon has gone so viral that it would be a little pointless to feature it here, except that it’s a good example of combining a pop culture reference — always a […]

Yesterday, I predicted that the memes about Ivanka’s Goya ad would come faster than the cartoons. I was wrong, and, while some were better than others, I was impressed with the rapidity with which the professional commentaries appeared.I don’t think that’s a trade-off. My experience is that the cartoonists who drift in a few days […]

Let’s begin apolitically, with this Greg Kearney depiction of the woman who was gored by a bison a few days ago at Yellowstone.Last time I was at Yellowstone, I passed a jogger, then came over a hill and saw a herd of bison, so I slowed down until the jogger caught up so that he […]