It’s Labor Day here in the US, and Bill Day didn’t get the memo about hot dog jokes, so inadvertantly did an editorial cartoon on the actual topic of the labor situation in the US.It’s always been possible to demonize labor, and times when it was easier than others: Blowing off bombs on Wall Street […]
Robert Ariail gets the award for summing it up without going overboard.Summing up the actual announcement, that is. The impact and significance is a bit less straightforward, and there are all sorts of directions to take it.And most of them seem to have been taken by somebody or other, most predictably from the right, where the […]
Scott Stantis on the results in New Hampshire, and the general demise of Hillary Clinton’s “inevitability.” I love her facial expression, and — issues of whether carriage wheels have tires aside – I’m intrigued by the sickle he chose as the tool of deflation.Communism? Or the more basic symbol of peasantry, from which the communists borrowed it?Either […]
Darrin Bell makes the iconic statement. I like Clay Bennett’s declaration that school shootings are the new normal, but here’s the distinction that I see:Bennett’s cartoon suggests that we’re still trying to protect our children.Bell’s says, rather, “Here is where we are.”And, by God, here is where we are.We’re not trying to protect our children. We […]
Okay, granted, “high” would be a bad idea. We all know “high” would be a bad idea.But maybe if you set it on “low.”Baby Blues plays on a spectrum of issues with this simple gag, because there’s substantial scholarship to indicate that kids benefit from their father’s horseplay. Not sure suspending the baby from a ceiling […]
Yes. Exactly, Lee Judge.I guess Michael Sam is taking one for the cause, publicly announcing his sexual orientation before the NFL Draft almost certainly knowing he would be forced through a media circus. The sense I get is that he was no more or less likely to be drafted because of his announcement, because the […]
I haven’t featured Madam & Eve much here recently, not because it hasn’t been just as sharp as ever, but because — apart from them hogging all the good weather for the past several months — it’s been commenting on news stories that, like the aforementioned weather, haven’t really made it out of South Africa.That […]
Sunday seemed like the right day to tackle (heh) the issue of racist names, or at least one in particular.It’s a sort of evergreen issue, so some of these cartoons are not from today or even the past week, which is how editorial cartoons are generally handled here. But none of the arguments are new […]
There are so many really bad cartoons about the shutdown — oh, excuse me, the “partial shutdown” — that I feel particularly compelled to feature ones that (A) seem to get it and (B) make a point beyond “gee, this sucks.”(And, yes, I do think it’s extraordinarily silly to add the word “partial” to make […]
I like Nick Anderson’s cartoon, but I don’t take it literally.While I applaud the artistry of tying together a couple of threads in our deteriorating democracy, to take it literally would be a bit overwrought.Then again, I don’t think you should wait for an immediate, personal threat before you question what the hell is going […]
Daryl Cagle coined the term “Yahtzee!” for those times when several editorial cartoonists come up with the same gag simultaneously, the most egregious example being the 30+ “Weeping Statues of Liberty” that popped up on editorial pages September 12, 2001.Those, of course, came from a lack of wit, but there are more intriguing examples, and […]
There are several layers to the Voter Suppression Movement, but I think Tony Auth does the best job of getting to the heart of the matter.Both Keith Knight …… and Lee Judge … … question the GOP’s priorities, but that doesn’t really cut to the heart of the matter. In fact, it kind of ignores the […]