I was hoping to do another day of humor while we wait for a few facts to emerge, but we don’t seem to be waiting for facts, so here we are. One Sunday strip will have to suffice. When Kellyanne Conway coined the phrase “alternative facts” in 2017, it touched off a lot of mockery. […]
Alice laughed. “There’s no use trying,” she said: “one can’t believe impossible things.” “I daresay you haven’t had much practice,” said the Queen. “When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.” I’ve used the White Queen’s quote before and it […]
There’s not much to add to or analyze in Jennings’ cartoon. Children are living as grotesque skeletons and dying in unconscionable numbers. The obvious, simple solution would be to give them food, but instead they have to die. It’s all rather complicated. The whole world is watching, and, as Pope says, putting together their sternest […]
So checking the Tribune Content Agency (TCA) comics page I noticed a “new” feature had appeared. Actually a comic that has been around for 14 years but new to TCA – Reply All by Donna A. Lewis. Last year when the Washington Post Writers Group (WPWG) dropped comics from the agenda Donna took her daily […]
Margulies starts the ball rolling with an observation which you should hold in mind throughout the rest of what is to come. First of all, he’s right. Trump reminds me of a wisecrack directed at Jesse Jackson some years ago by Detroit Mayor Coleman Young: “Jesse’s never run anything but his mouth.” Ditto, the difference […]
Luckovich uses that word, and I do think it means what he thinks it means. But there are two reasons to quibble with Luckovich’s cartoon, the first being that the Founders had, at best, a relatively select bloc of voters in mind. Voters weren’t specifically “elite” and it’s flat out wrong to suggest that they […]
As Herbert suggests, we’ve got a full plate, in keeping with Steve Bannon’s advice to flood the zone with shit so that the opposition has no time to deal with any of it. As Dan Perkins (“Tom Tomorrow”) told the Irish Times in Trump’s first administration, [It’s] like waking up and saying ‘I’d like a […]
Given the tumult we’ve been going through since Inauguration Day, the flow of political cartoons has been steady but has ranged from nuanced to absurd, sometimes out of extreme views one way or the other, other times because of the complexity of subject matter. It definitely makes me hope that, when GoComics unveils their new […]
I’m picky when it comes to variations on the old fish-swallowing-fish concept. First, it needs to be applicable, and, in this case, it is: Trump has swallowed the Republican Party — as demonstrated by the confirmations of his unqualified cabinet — and Musk is clearly in charge of Trump, as demonstrated by that jaw-dropping spectacle […]
Morten Morland offers his own version of Desolation Row, as the United States pulls down thoughtfulness and erects a golden calf, an accusation of sacrilege you’d never see on the editorial pages of the Washington Post (but only because it would be repetitive). Dylan began his lyrics with a reference to a 1920 lynching in […]
Gary Varvel (Creators) offers a sensible if not groundbreaking reminder that democracy belongs to the voters. Such messages don’t need to plow a whole lot of new ground, but they have value, particularly in a bizarre world in which people are being urged to distrust the system. We’ve seen school budgets get shot down by […]
Ann Telnaes shares the ebullience flowing out of the DNC, adding a dash of feminine pride to the contrast between joyous celebration and the sourpuss dread driving the GOP campaign. And she’s not wrong to show Justice and Liberty as boosters for Harris, given that we’ve seen Justice denied amid a flurry of hostility directed […]
Eric Allie (Counterpoint) promotes “they,” the imaginary political scapegoat currently being used to exploit the attempted assassination of Donald Trump. It might have been a reasonable guess in the early going, but it’s increasingly obvious that there is no “they” and that Thomas Crook was no more a political operative than Lynnette Fromme. In fact, […]
Well, of course it was! Though Ann Telnaes could have run this cartoon just about anytime in the past decade or seven, because nothing at all has ever been Donald Trump’s fault and the system has always been rigged against him. On the other hand, in this picture he’s surrounded by more sheep than ever […]
Clay Bennett (CTFP) points out what we all know, that Nikki Haley’s endorsement of Trump comes after a blistering primary campaign in which she repeatedly scored heavily against him. Haley said in speeches that he was unfit for office and that the GOP could not win with him as their candidate, and her supporters continued […]