Creating a multi-panel, multi-gag comic poses an obvious problem: You have to be insightful with each panel, and most cartoonists do well to produce five in a row when they’re producing a single comic each day without trying to tie them all into a specific theme.McFadden is lucky while the rest of us are not, […]
*A government action “that could never happen here.”We start with a couple Letters to the Editor. To the Cleveland Plain Dealer: When it comes to the Comey indictment, cartoonist Dana Summers has trouble telling R’s from D’s Editorial cartoonist Dana Summers, in his “Payback” cartoon in the Sept. 29 Plain Dealer, apparently believes the indictment […]
Telnaes offers a State of the Union commentary at the Contrarian, one of the stronger arms of the resistance. Not only do they offer solid commentary by qualified writers, but they’ve added political cartoons. Ann Telnaes is well-positioned to address the topic, because aside from her own cartooning, she is active in the global free-press […]
Jimmy Margulies (KFS) isn’t the only commentator who appears trapped in a mutual admiration society, but his donkey’s remark makes a perfect starting point, because I would dispute it.While the Chattering Classes echo outrage over the pardon, if you look at the comments, on stories, on columns, and on cartoons where comments are permitted, you’ll […]
David Parkins, a British-born cartoonist working for the Globe and Mail in Toronto, has captured the mood down here as the Democratic National Convention rounds up. A lot of my favorite overseas cartoonists don’t seem to quite grasp our political system, but I do keep an open mind and, given that Parkins’ political cartoons are […]
Harley Schwadron speaks for me, because there is a flood of topics being cartooned about at the moment and my desperation is in trying to cover the ones that won’t keep, combined with the prospects of a drought if I cover them all today and nothing surfaces for tomorrow.My desperation, though, is never quiet. Thoreau […]
A lot of things have changed in the past day or two, and I’m covering myself by starting with this handy flowchart from Joy of Tech, because Sam Altman was fired as head of Open AI and then hired by Microsoft and then a bunch of people at Open AI threatened to quit and then […]
Matt Golding starts us off with this cheerful vision, and, while exaggeration is one of the main tools of political cartooning, this is less a case of exaggeration than it is of, as the phrase goes, “saying the silent part out loud.”While he didn’t intend a two-part comic, Golding returned to the overall theme with […]
As is so often the case, I find myself reluctantly agreeing with Clyde’s dubious street smarts in today’s Candorville (KFS) over Lemont’s more proper sense of logic and propriety. Or perhaps with John Lennon, who also felt that life was what happens while you were making other plans. Or perhaps with myself, having watched all […]
Scott Stantis (Counterpoint) notes another rate hike at the post office, but I’m not fretting over it. I don’t like how the USPS is being kicked around by the privatizers who would love to turn it over to their pals at UPS and Fedex, but the rise in postal rates doesn’t bother me.Well, at least […]
At the early morning hour I should have been blogging today, I was preparing to go work the polls at the New Hampshire Primaries. Fortunately, I am, in fact, the fellow in this vintage xkcd, and have an extensive collection of funny pictures on my hard drive.While they won’t serve as alternative currency — if […]
I’m going to reach across the sea to start the day, with a Chris Riddell cartoon that, in fact, ran a few days before the Impeachment Trial began.Not only is the whole world watching, but the whole world knows what they’re watching.And I suppose we should know, too, but seeing it unfold yesterday reminded me […]
As noted earlier, a highlight of the AAEC Convention this year was a chance to tour the Billy Ireland’s “Front Line: Editorial Cartoonists and the First Amendment” exhibit with its two curators, Lucy Shelton Caswell and Ann Telnaes.Sharing a few samples of the exhibit today not only allows me to show you more than I […]
Juxtaposition of 15 Years (Ann Telnaes, July 7, 2003) (Ann Telnaes, June 7, 2018)This is the way the world ends, not with a bang but a fanfare.Nearly 15 years ago to the day, Telnaes captured an array of horrors, because it wasn’t just Bush and his cronies — Ashcroft in this case — piping a […]
Steve Sack steps above the partisan divide that has, almost inexplicably, enveloped the Harvey Weinstein et al controversy to put before us what ought to be a priority, but may be becoming simply a momentary distraction.It’s the et al, which he captures on the page of that newspaper, that should pierce through everything else, because […]