An apt mood-setter from Pros & Cons (KFS): Whether we’re entering a new Dark Age or a new Golden Age depends on your point of view.Let’s start here: One of the more deadly, underhanded techniques of reporting is to quote someone accurately.Underhanded if you simply don’t like the person, in which case, even if what […]
The classic political cartoon from the disputed election of 1876 is this Joseph Keppler piece in which NY Senator Roscoe Conking is seen blessing, in a Satanic sense, the union of Rutherford B. Hayes with Columbia, the symbol of the nation.Since I’m working the polls today and don’t have time to post a contemporary blog, […]
There are a lot of cartoons about climate-change deniers around at the moment, but I’m more pleased to see Keith Knight go after the race-problem deniers, and do it in a way that is pointed and unambiguous, but also funny.Not everyone can pull that combination off.There was a story on an NPR blog the other […]
Here’s a page from “Wee Pals,” the barrier-busting comic strip (and also a short-lived but interesting Saturday morning cartoon) by Morrie Turner. Launched in 1965, “Wee Pals” was the first truly inclusive strip syndicated by a mainstream syndicate, and it literally changed the face of the comics pages. Morrie Turner died Saturday, not quite six weeks after […]