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One cannot understate the influence Wiley Miller has had on newspaper comics and in ways far beyond artistic style.

Who would you choose as the greatest editorial cartoonist of all time? James Gillray? Thomas Nast? Robert Minor? Paul Conrad? Last week David Von Drehle writing for The Washington Post made The Case for Pat Oliphant (or here). There are many forms and expressions of greatness — not one GOAT, but herds of GOATs; nevertheless, […]

Milbrath is not the only observer predicting that tonight’s speech will be about the 2020 elections and Dear Leader’s “proof” that it was stolen. Miles Taylor, who served as Chief of Staff at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in the first Trump White House, was the anonymous author of a New York Times op-ed […]

Nor should we listen to those who say “The voice of the people is the voice of God,” for the turbulence of the mob is always close to insanity. — Alcuin to Charlemagne, 798 AD“Friends, I want to remove any cause for contention between you two fine fellow-Democrats”HerblockI missed getting to vote in 1968, because […]

For whatever reason this list from the Freedom Forum of seven months ago popped up in my feed recently. The headline says “most famous” while the body of the article merely says “famous political cartoons.”Scott A Leadingham puts his list in chronological order and it is hard to argue with his first and last choices. […]

The big news seems to be that the “gold” Trump phones are finally shipping, and, as Jones says in his commentary, that should bring down the curtain on the jokes about them, or at least on the jokes about them not existing. We can still joke about them not being made in the USA as […]

Where to begin? Easy answer, thanks to Toro, who states today’s premise clearly. The next question is what to include, and in what order?We probably need one of those disclaimers, that this is entirely fictional and any resemblance etc, because none of this is Dear Leader’s fault.As he has explained, he has staff which stays […]

“The best cartoonists aren’t side commentary. They’re critics with a sharper tool.”Nik Kowsar dismisses efforts to belittle editorial cartooning as a lesser form of journalism.Nik Kowsar is an Iranian-Canadian residing in Washington, D.C. and sentenced to prison in absentia for his cartoons about Iranian regimes. He recently used his Subtack to praise the art of […]

This is when I first heard “Yankee Go Home!” I was eight, Ike was president and Vice-President Nixon was visiting Venezuela.As these cutlines read, the wreath-laying didn’t happen and Nixon scarpered on home. He was quite shaken by the event, which cracked the shatter-proof glass in his limo and shattered the image of the US […]

Seems like a good jibe at the expense of our exalted Secretary of Health and Human Services, doesn’t it? But Garry Trudeau was early, because I came across this last week when I was looking through the 2006 archives for flag desecration cartoons. It ran July 2, 2006, which was not only well before RFK […]

I was playing around in 1935 newspapers and came across this Art Krenz illustration with the tale of the tape for the upcoming fight between Max Baer (yes, Jethro’s father) and Joe Louis. Sports cartoons often had a lot of word balloons and commentary, but Krenz plays this straight because interest in the fight was […]

Cartoons win ‘Best in Ohio’Jeff Darcy won a couple 2024 ‘Ohio Excellence in Journalism Awards’ from the Cleveland Press Club recently. Jason Bredehoeft of The Columbus Dispatch took second in the Best in Ohio: Illustrator category.Jeff Darcy did some humble bragging and posted part of his winning portfolio. To lead this post I chose the Liberty […]

I’d been at the paper — not the above paper, mind you — for about four months when the markets crashed in 1987 and I had to suddenly learn about stocks and bonds and such. Fortunately, I’d just spent three or four years writing about residential real estate and commercial development, so it was more […]

The successful launch of the the Herblock-designed Bill of Rights stamp in 1966 is detailed by Belmont Faries for the Society of Philatic Americans in the S.P.A. Journal V30 #3 of November 1967.The article describes the process of Herbert Block creating the dozens of designs and revisions. Mike Rhode at ComicsDC posts all nine pages […]

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 were […]