John Darkow’s ICE cartoon bemoaned, Goofus and Gallant, #ComicsforLiam, #ICEOutComics, new NY Times Awards, Bill Suddick Speaks, and former Washington Post cartoonist Michael de Adder cartoons The WaPo. We start with…The Modern Schutzstaffel? There are columns, social media posts, and cartoons comparing the current ICE organization to the Schutzstaffel (SS) of Nazi Germany. A letter […]
Canada has never been a non-aligned country; they were in both World Wars before the US shook off its isolationism. But Carney’s outreach to China reminds me of something a former official of Cambodia told me, which is that even supposedly non-aligned nations need to make friends, and Cambodia had thrown in with the Americans […]
If you’ve ever been in a play, you know that after a rehearsal, the director gathers the cast and provides a list of notes on what went well and what could have gone better in hopes of improving the next run-through. Given the death of the paper in a major city, Bish’s use of the […]
On New Year’s Eve we have a tsunami of political cartoon Best Ofs being issued. We start this round(up) with the Summer (July through September) and Fall (October through December) 2025 picks from The Everett (Wash) Herald who rotates their choices among the Cagle Cartoons cast, including: John Darkow, Michael de Adder, Rick McKee, Dave […]
Just a few sites today but nearly a score of editorial cartoonists represent.The Everett (Wash) Herald is splitting their best ofs into four parts pretty much following the seasons. 2025’s Best Editorial Cartoons, January through March (or here) and 2025’s Best Editorial Cartoons, April through June (or here) with an all-star cast of Cagle political […]
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 […]
Dennis Green is gone, but his rant lives on, not because it applied to a football game, but because it continues to apply to people who look a threat straight in the eye and decide not to see it.Green said what he should have said, but that’s what nobody ever says because we’d rather be […]
It was a pleasant surprise to see Signalgate back in the news yesterday. I thought it was gone and forgotten, but it turns out somebody had been looking into it all this time and now there is a report saying that what everybody knew happened happened.Rowe combines it with the ongoing, not-to-be-forgotten Epstein saga. Yesterday, […]
Cartoonists swipe file? Al Capp and Jesus? Webtoon a non-profit?JuxtapositionJuxtapositions, like the above, happen frequently, colleague Mike Peterson occasionally features them in his columns. He could feature them every day if he so wished. But it seems that controversy has arisen over just such a comparison of cartoons. Two of the cartoons won awards this […]
Princess Bride Adapted to Comic StripsIt seems that every scene of The Princess Bride will eventually find its way into Dan Schkade’s Flash Gordon. From earlier this year: And now insects of unusual size. Shrinkflation in the ComicsIt wouldn’t surprise me to see the dozen carton of eggs reduced to ten with no reduction in […]
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 […]
I was hoping to do another day of humor while we wait for a few facts to emerge, but we don’t seem to be waiting for facts, so here we are. One Sunday strip will have to suffice.When Kellyanne Conway coined the phrase “alternative facts” in 2017, it touched off a lot of mockery. After […]
There is a “Why all the surprise?” element to our current situation. A large part of it has to do with siloing, with the fact that, in today’s media market, there are a good number of people who only take their information from partisan sites, and I’ll admit that most of what I see from […]
I suggested yesterday that, while its doubtful that Dear Leader saw the mockery in the media, he must certainly have realized that there weren’t huge cheering throngs at his parade.I can’t prove any connection between that disappointment and his sudden enthusiasm for sending American troops to boldly go where no man with heel spurs has […]