The knives are out for Graham Platner, the likely Democratic candidate (pending Tuesday’s primaries) challenging Maine Senator Susan Collins in November. Since Platner doesn’t have a legislative record to run on, it’s not surprising that his personal past is taking center stage.Varvel’s cartoon sums up the superficial aspects, with Collins the aging candidate who can’t […]
It began with the cartooning team of Margolis and Cox drawing Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson as a clown which made her look like a representation of Black people in cartoons from decades past. Liberal political cartoonist Clay Jones saw the cartoon and (“I’m going to get in trouble again”) noted: There’s a duo […]
Wading over to Mike Peterson’s side on the pool.The “New” Woke SupermanWell it seems the new Superman movie is just too woke for the right wing pundits and cartoonists. Accusations that James Gunn has “politicized” Superman come laughably late, as the world’s most famous superhero has always been political, write narrative strategist Andrew Slack and […]
Steve Sack provides the most humorous-yet-accurate assessment of the Comey firing.To begin with, the villain-in-black is a lovely symbol, and then the self-satisfied villain, having local law enforcement in his pocket, sitting on the board sidewalk tilted back in his chair is a vital part of so many Westerns that it makes no demands on […]
Here’s a collection of cartoons from the week after Richard Nixon fired Archibald Cox, the special prosecutor looking into Watergate, which also brought about the resignations of Attorney General Eliot Richardson and Deputy Attorney General William D. Ruckelshaus, who refused to go along with the game.It was a different time.More background: Nixon was in a […]
Given the number of people predicting that Donald J. Trump will be remembered as America’s worst president ever, I thought it might be interesting to go back to Inauguration Day 1921 and see how cartoonists welcomed Warren G. Harding to the post, given that he is our current Worst President Ever.And I was right. It […]