As all eyes — well, all South African eyes at any rate — turn to the livecasts of the Oscar Pistorius trial, Jeremy Nell suggests that it’s perhaps not quite as riveting as everyone was hoping. Don’t try to tell that to Madam & Eve. Or, rather, you don’t have to tell Eve at all, […]
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 […]
Here’s today’s Candorville, in honor of the fact that it’s been five years since I took on a job that lasted about six months. Before I accepted the job, I asked my prospective boss how the then-new recession was hitting the paper and he assured me that things were just fine, that a community with […]
Here are yesterday and today’s episodes of “Gil.”When this strip first started, I had some serious reservations about the character of Gil’s father. As a divorced dad myself, I don’t take kindly to “deadbeat dad” portrayals, in part because it’s a stereotype and in part because it’s accurate enough to be an embarrassment to the […]
A combination of having done political cartooning presentations for many years and being in Denver at the time of the Dark Knight shootings made this 1981 Jim Mazzotta cartoon spring to mind.
(David Fitzsimmons) As it happens, I’m in Denver, where I just did two journalism workshops at the Post for young writers, one which is an annual event for kids who want to learn about reporting, photography, etc., and the second a more focused training session for the young reporters (roughly 8 to 14) at the weekly […]