There are many reasons to like Mike Thompson‘s cartoon, starting with the timing.I hit a point last night where I didn’t want to read the arguing and self-sanctities on my computer anymore and I didn’t want to watch the talking heads promote their talking points on TV, and so I just read books that had […]
Matt Wuerker suggests what we have to fear, though not only do we have to fear fear itself, but we also have to fear not fearing enough.It’s a particular challenge for cartoonists because commenting on the fear shouldn’t negate the need to be reasonably and sensibly cautious. It doesn’t help that Dear Leader has chosen not […]
Stuart Carlson may have the best perspective on the impeachment trial and the public.One continuing flaw in the liberal game plan is the notion that people will respond to logic, and it’s a misunderstanding of human nature that goes at least as far back as Jimmy Carter, who thought that, if he explained the state […]
Michael Ramirez salutes the victory of Osama bin Laden, who managed to both undermine our freedom and to keep us firmly in his grasp nearly two decades later.Not sure that was the intent of the cartoon, but look around.Our misplaced priorities are based on pre-existing, irrational Islamophobia, given a semi-rational basis by the horrors of […]
In the fury of reactions to last night’s outrage, Pia Guerra responds with such quiet eloquence that there’s a temptation to simply run her piece and call it a day.Here we are, and the pickup truck behind her might be that of the murderer, judging from what we see on the bumper and what we […]
Start with an old man’s correction to a lot of Moon Landing cartoons.It was not the Moon landing that made people aware of the need to preserve the Earth. It was Apollo 8, seven months earlier, from which this iconic photo of the Big Blue Marble was taken.Seeing the Earth rise over the Moon’s horizon […]
Matt Wuerker shows us where we’re at, and last night’s astonishing hatefest hardly undercuts his point, though I suppose you could quibble over the term “Normal.”As the old joke goes, “We’ve established what you are; now we’re just haggling over the price.” Which is to say that, as much as I like Kevin Siers‘ spin on […]
I saw Ann Telnaes‘ latest last night and wished she’d done it a day earlier, since it would have fit yesterday’s rant so well.And then I realized, this isn’t going out of style and it’s not like we’re not going to have this conversation over and over.The people who bet on Maximum Security will never […]
I curate my social media enough that I miss some things, but if anybody is mourning the retirement of Paul Ryan, it hasn’t come across my feed. The most sympathetic take I’m seeing is along the lines of this simple Ann Telnaes commentary, which I don’t think is intended to be sympathetic.But there he is, […]
“This is not the end, it is not even the beginning of the end, but it is perhaps the end of the beginning.” — Winston Churchill, Nov. 10, 1942Ann Telnaes reflects my own mood at the moment: He’s completely hemmed in, but it hasn’t stopped him from tweeting.I’ll confess that, when Nixon was up against […]
Timing is everything in humor and, with a hat tip to DD Degg at The Daily Cartoonist, here’s one I missed yesterday — an Over the Hedge written two weeks ago — and here’s Michael Fry’s commentary on the serendipity.That was cool. Now do it again. Arlo & Janis offers a look at the gracious past, and […]
Here is what I guess may prove to be Lee Judge’s final political cartoon.He’s been cut loose by the Kansas City Star after 37 years, which at least earned him the right to do a farewell column, which you can read at Bado’s Blog.In addition to reproducing Judge’s column, Bado offers a selection of Judge’s […]
Steve Sack ignores the command from Central Cartooning to quote Stuart Smalley and, instead, makes a point not so much about Franken’s situation but about the absurdity of being called out for pretending to grope one woman by a guy who was going to sue 16 women — but apparently forgot — for accusing him […]
Timing is everything in comedy, and timeliness is everything in editorial cartooning. With this unrelated but relevant “ghost stories around the campfire” piece, featuring his home state’s former secretary of state, Kris Kobach, head of Trump’s search for voter fraud, Lee Judge gets a jump on his colleagues in the trade, who over the next few days, […]
“Donald Trump has become a favorite of cartoonists, thanks to his flapping hair and his flapping mouth. That’s not necessarily a good thing, because it’s easy to be lazy when the target is so inviting.” — Me, July 20, 2015 I start with a quote and a screenshot of that 2015 posting to disarm anyone who […]