Might as well lead off with the one in dubious taste. Jones doesn’t mind pushing things and I agree with his premise that only crooks wear masks. He’s not the first person to point out that all sorts of law officers manage to get through their workday without hiding their identities and there’s no reason […]
Other cartoonists have suggested a “What would you say?” scenario over how Americans would be outraged if another country were to seize our president the way we grabbed Maduro, but Prickly City, as a strip, has the real estate to ask the question and propose a possible answer.And, as a strip, it has the ability […]
As noted yesterday, drawing for Politico gives Wuerker more latitude in creating cartoons that make intellectual demands on people. This, however, is a good example of a cartoon that would do well in a general-circulation magazine in the category of “comforting the afflicted.” I’m not sure it would be as effective in converting anyone to […]
Sorensen sets today’s mood, and I’d say she sets the agenda, but I’m not sure we’ll get to all this in a single day. But she captures the sense of everything being not just out of control but insanely so. Things are so beyond logic and expectations that it’s hard to know where to start.That […]
Jimmy Kimmel is apparently back on the air, or will be tonight. I’m holding off my belief until it happens, but, even if it happens, Sinclair’s ABC stations won’t carry the program and we’ll see how viewers like that, but I’ll bet the FCC won’t land too hard on them for failing to serve their […]
David Haldane, One of the World’s Best Cartoonists David Haldane is set to appear at The Word, in South Shields, on Wednesday, September 24, as part of the venue’s WRITE Festival. Ryan Smith at The Shields Gazette proudly announces the appearance of their homegrown cartoonist David Haldane, who became “one of the world’s best cartoonists,” […]
Funny you should mention it, Jen. My friend and I were discussing movies we were supposed to like but didn’t, which included a mashup of Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner and the Lion in Winter called “Guess Who’s Coming to the Crusades,” in which Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine exchange witty suburban repartee some […]
This is another “Where to begin?” day, but, fortunately, I had this cartoon ready yesterday but ran out of room, so we’ll start where we left off, or would have, the point being that there were any number of places we could have gotten off the crazy train, but didn’t, and now it’s going fast […]
I could do an entire day of cartoons in which Trump and Putin discuss the Ukraine war while Zelenskyy remains out of the conversation. It seems nobody in the world thinks it’s fair or right for the invader and an outside party to determine some other nation’s territory and sovereignty.I like Royaards’ piece because he’s […]
Sorensen is right. We get righteously upset about cruelty and stupidity and dishonesty … and then the fire dies down and it all becomes normal.The challenge we face as we slip into fascism is maintaining some level of outrage. If nothing else, our grandchildren will wonder how we could sit back and just watch it […]
Sorensen reframes matters in current, rather than traditional, terms, and it’s hard to disagree with her suggestion that we stop pretending things are the same as they’ve always been. It seems time to, as Howard Cosell put it, “Tell it like it is.”It’s hard to avoid knowing that things have changed, and if for some […]
We’ll start with the conclusion, which, as Chappatte explains it, is that we’re finally honest with each other, or at least that we’ve reached a point where things are becoming plain.Of course, the empty rhetoric continues, explaining how this is such a wonderful deal for the average person and assuming that nobody will look behind […]
I wish Kikkert hadn’t bothered adding a caption to this, since its meaning is clear, but I like the thought of helpless deportees being dumped off on a random desert island, because some of the other places we’re dumping them off are just as unable to sustain the people already there and every bit as […]
President Trump’s bizarre answer to Christine Welker’s question on Meet The Press continues to draw criticism and ridicule. As noted here yesterday and in many other places across a wide span of media, the presidential oath is not complicated: I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the […]
I guess 250 years is pretty good, but it does seem a shame the country couldn’t have survived a little longer. The error in Horsey’s cartoon, I fear, is that the lamps are going out all over America, which is a riff on a different war, but we’ve had plenty. I hope this isn’t the […]