I can’t accuse Margulies of being a member of the Democrats’ Circular Firing Squad because, while he tends to lean left of the exact center, he’s politically independent and this seems more an observation than an accusation.Then again, one should be careful what one observes, because everything beyond “Kids sure stare at their phones” carries […]
The general opinion around the world seems to be that Dear Leader is in way over his head in attempting to pull “The Art of the Deal” on Xi Jinping, and that, as MacKay illustrates, Xi is playing with him as a cat plays with a mouse, before eating it.Trump has said he and Xi […]
I was always skeptical of teachers who said, “I’m tough, but fair.” I knew teachers who were tough but fair, but none of them ever said so and they didn’t have to, because we knew it. The ones who proclaimed it were, instead, rigidly harsh and felt “fair” meant having everything go their way.It is […]
From Guy Badeaux’s (Bado) blog we learn the winners of the 26th World Press Freedom International Editorial Cartoon award. The theme this year was “Times are tough.” Taking the top first, second and third place are: Darko Drljevic of Montenegro, Joel Pett of USA, and Patrick Lamontagne of Canada.Ten cartoonists were honored with an Awards […]
A simple cartoon can contain a lot of different messages, and Derenne doesn’t tell the reader what to think. She just gives us a visual poke to get the thinking process started.First of all, Trump does peddle a lot of fake news, whether it’s deliberate lies or cockamamie theorizing. By this time, we ought to […]
This is a really good cartoon. Bennett has excellent artistic skills and a keen eye for depicting frustrated despair, which he make a recurring motif in his work. He’s even color-coded his firefighters with red and blue clothes under their bunker gear.The problem is that this shouldn’t be an evergreen — a cartoon that could […]
When I said yesterday that the ICE-in-the-airport cartoons were going to draw themselves, I wasn’t kidding. The past 24 hours have been a flood of cartoons of people being assaulted by ICE in airports, mostly for having liquids in their carry-ons. But we’d already chuckled over the concept and timing is everything.I like Granlund’s take, […]
Perhaps you have to be further away to see it clearly. Leahy views things from Australia, and apparently from there it appears that only Trump and Netanyahu think the war in Iran is a good idea, and also that Trump may have an ulterior motive. Or perhaps the message is that it only appears that […]
The good news is that he hasn’t tried to declare the war all-but-over the way W did, or even the way Bramhall suggests he might. But it’s scant comfort, because at least when W did it, he was trying to fool us, and he did fool quite a few of us, though it didn’t last […]
As the Rock Man told Oblio, “You see what you want to see, and you hear what you want to hear.” The point — no pun intended — is that “You got to open your mind as well as your eyes. But first you got to get yourself together; Dig yourself.”Pett is right about the […]
One of the issues in compiling cartoons about yesterday’s killing of Alex Pretti was that very few cartoonists were able to get their work posted on the official sites by this morning. Another, more disturbing, issue was that many cartoons, reposted on social media, were about the ongoing brutality of ICE, which made it hard […]
Good advice from one traditional figure of the new year to another. Some years, the editorial cartoons look forward to progress and improvements, but this isn’t one of those years and nobody has any grand expectations for 2026. It’s also traditional for killjoys like myself to point out that, while a few new laws have […]
I had intended to run a collection of Reiner/Trump cartoons to show the depth of rejection Trump’s insane post had sparked, but Campbell sums it up. There’s not much more to be said, and the people who are shocked are shocked and the people who cannot be shocked are not.I liked Bramhall’s take, but its […]
Featuring Lynda Barry on museums, Liam Francis Walsh too soon?, Charlie Daniel and Brad Boring for the kids, Joel Pett standup cartoonist, Russell Taylor and Charles Peattie create Alex, but we start with senior stripper Sidney Harris at the gym.Sidney Harris at the Gym for a Pop-Up Exhibit Sidney Harris, 92, walked into a gym, […]
Tank raises the popular question of why football coaches are better paid at Div I schools than professors, and then half answers it. Filling the stadium is a good source of revenue, but teams only play a half-dozen home games, so that the Colorado Buffalos, who apparently have the most expensive tickets at $517 but […]