I don’t know how fresh Will Rogers’s act really was even back in his day, but knee-jerk attacks on Congress and professions of how “they’re all crooks” have certainly become tiresome and dime-a-dozen since. It is not a sign of genius to discover that there are no flawless people in public life and that no […]
Political cartooning is not only not dead, but, even as some good veteran artists hang up their pens and retire, there are some good young practitioners emerging.I’ve said before that one of the unspoken factors in the shift from print to not-print is that, just as when movies began to supplant live theater (which did […]
Meecy-micey, atsa some big cartoon, dere, Tom Tomorrow. All those panels and not a clunker in the group. (This might be a good time to remind you that you can click on the image for a larger version.)I’ve got nothing to add. He covered it all. And any one of these panels could have been […]
Slowpoke’s latest, in which Jen Sorensen is as puzzled as I am over the amazing Mom from my hometown who keeps discovering things the experts haven’t figured out.I’m a little — but only a little — puzzled by this strange intersection of Madison Avenue and “1984,” whereby advertisements are, at least to my mind, targeted […]
We’ve covered cartoonists who report from the Middle East, from Appalachia, from Congo. Now Jen Sorensen reports from her own backyard with a piece that gains its impact from just how normal and mundane her life is. And, as she notes, unsustainable.(Follow that link to read the rest.)The “Open Letter To The Supreme Court” is, of […]
I’m currently working on a series for kids about Theodore Roosevelt and conservation, and, as part of that, was going through political cartoons of the era.This two page spread by Puck cartoonist L.M. Glackens ran in that publication in 1906, when William Randolph Hearst was a candidate for governor of New York (click on it […]
Over at Daily Kos, Jen Sorensen riffs on what happened when our children stepped into the crossfire between — among — those who care about them and the hordes of science haters, Obama haters, radical anarchists and lobbyists.Poor little mushrooms just popped up and got mowed down. Never had a chance.For those who missed it, […]
Jen Sorensen isn’t the first cartoonist to work with the concept that the president has gone too far for too little, or that the Republicans are being not simply stubborn but purposefully obstructive. But I like the blandness of this Slowpoke, the way the matter-of-fact depictions clash with the absurd demands they illustrate.There are aspects […]