For those keeping track, Mamdani won’t be mayor of NYC for another month, so it’s a little early to be panicking over what he might do if he becomes the first candidate in recorded history to accomplish everything he promised. Though I say that as someone who lives in a small (14,300) city with free […]
This certainly set a foul mood for the day. It’s perfectly valid to criticize Hamas, or the Netanyahu government, or ours. But I cannot understand the editing process by which this got through at Tribune or posted at GoComics, and I sincerely hope no newspaper editor would choose to run this hateful slandering of two […]
We’re discussing news from other countries today, but I’m starting with a story from right here because the Department of Justice doesn’t often hand out laughs and I have a particular fondness for this metaphor. I covered a case 30-some years ago in which a pet store called our newsroom wanting coverage of what they […]
There’s no Hump Day Shutdown but there is a shutdown of National Parks, which was a last minute decision. The Park Service argued that, with no rangers and other parks officials working, the level of vandalism would skyrocket and there’d be huge delays in rescuing people who stepped into pools of boiling water or antagonized […]
Parodies of official seals are a standard tool in the cartoonist’s magic box, but they can be hit-or-miss. Boris nails this one largely because the purpose of the FCC is so at odds with its current execution, so the irony of its malfeasance is striking and mockery of it is darkly humorous. Today’s headline is […]
Political cartoonists have been having a field day with the message Donald Trump allegedly submitted as part of a birthday book assembled for Jeffrey Epstein’s 50th birthday. That “allegedly” part is beginning to fray a bit, given that Trump sued the Wall Street Journal for publishing it and denied that it was his signature on […]
Looking to get out of the studio this summer? Here are five UK cartoon exhibits to visit: Samuel Ojo’s show at The Cartoon Museum dives into his experience as a migrant artist. In Herne Bay, “Out of Line” takes aim at Michelangelo’s David. Paul Shadbolt’s work is on display at The Crown in Hastings, Pete […]
There are any number of cartoons, memes and videos floating around about what a disappointment Dear Leader’s parade turned out to be, and that’s probably a good thing in terms of keeping up morale among the dissenters, though I doubt much of it will get through the president’s protective bubble. The thing is, LBJ and […]
Today is the day we’ve all been waiting for, either as a coronation of the king or as a moment of unified rebellion against egotism and fascism. Looks like God is planning a test of his own, to see how many people will turn out in the rain either to cheer or to protest. I’m […]
Anderson is 100% right, but the real message is not in his cartoon but in the shrug it inspires. January 6 was only a bit over four years ago, and everyone of voting age remembers that day. The fact that the architect of that attempted coup was voted back into office is astonishing and hinges […]
Yesterday was VE Day except in the United States, where it was “Victory Day For World War II,” according to our president, who celebrated by posting this image of marines raising the flag on Mount Suribachi, a hill just west of Berlin that was named for German composer Johann Sebastian Suribachi. Or maybe, just maybe, […]
I swiped today’s headline from a column in the Guardian that was written even before Dear Leader stunned the world by proposing the renovation and reopening of Alcatraz, based on his having watched a Clint Eastwood movie. The Alcatraz proposal also came a day or two after someone on social media asked if any bookies […]
I never noticed until just now that slaughter is just laughter with an S at the front end. There’s probably a clever aphorism somewhere in there, but I can’t think of one. Perhaps the woman in this cartoon can tell us, since I think she’s about to get smarter. I recently mentioned the Re-education Camps […]
I don’t like to repeat a topic, operating largely on a “You snooze, you lose” basis with political cartoonists and expecting them to leap to their drawing boards when something major happens. But I awoke this morning to a plethora of new cartoons about the security breach, and not just a metric plethora but a […]
An existential threat to Kentucky’s community newspapers Yeah, big newspapers that are part of big groups are turning their potential readers off by moving the news editors to out of town newsrooms that don’t care about local news. But Linda Boileau‘s cartoon above for The State Journal brings our attention to the smaller locally owned […]