Steve Benson notes that Trump has made a U-turn, and, suddenly, a lot of current political cartoons are outdated.I won’t miss the recurring Statue of Liberty images. It was an excellent way to show our rejection of America’s core values, and then it was a reminder and then it was just an indication that editorial cartoonists […]
Bruce Plante expresses the most honest opinion of the Inspector General’s Report, which is that both sides can find plenty to dislike in it.Though, while he’s certainly right, both sides are instead claiming victory, which generally suggests three things:One is that the report is long and, while not extraordinarily complex, has found problems in how the […]
If you follow comic news at all, you are likely aware that the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette finally quit torturing Rob Rogers and fired him yesterday.Rather than recoup it all, here are some links to coverage: Michael Cavna at Comic Riffs, Rob Tornoe at Philly News, the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review and the Post-Gazette itself.Plus, confirming what I wrote […]
Twitter is becoming more sensitive to potential triggers and upsetting graphics generally, and so chose to automatically hide the disturbing photo in this tweet, as passed along by Michael de Adder.However, I trust his judgment enough to know that, however horrifying the picture might be, it was making an important point, so I clicked on […]
Editorial cartoonists struggled to say much of anything witty or insightful about the Trump/Kim Summit, though perhaps they’ll do better once there is more indication of what actually happened.Meanwhile, I like Mac’s take, if for no other reason than that I’ve seen some “Kim is crazy” cartoons, which makes me wonder who they think he’s […]
Signe Wilkinson leads off with the most trivial of today’s topics, the legalization of sports betting, or, more precisely, the ruling that you can’t forbid states from legalizing it.Most of the professional leagues and the NCAA are against it, because they feel sports betting can breed corruption.And, aside from the 1950 college basketball point-shaving scandal, and […]
I’ve been back and forth on Bill and Monica and #MeToo, but I can certainly endorse Mike Thompson’s take.There are a million layers to this whole thing and ain’t none of them clean and clear, but the one that rises to the surface is that Bubba wasn’t dragged kicking and screaming back into the limelight.As […]
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 […]
Let’s begin where we left off yesterday, with the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette’s bizarre boycott of their own cartoonist. See yesterday’s blog posting for background, see JP Trostle’s cartoon above for a response I like.And here’s Rob’s latest cartoon. What the hell, if his own paper won’t print them, I will. And they’re still paying him, last […]
I really like Steve Sack’s commentary on the rollback of banking regulations.If you remember back when post-Depression banking regulations were first eased under Carter and Reagan, there was a lot of talk about how it was okay because they wouldn’t make the same mistakes that had been made in the 1920s. And we promptly fell into […]
Ann Telnaes’ new comic, Mo, posted its second edition yesterday, as scheduled, but we were back in 1918 yesterday, so I held it.I also clipped it, because the format is ginormous enough that you should go read the whole thing yourself. Constant Readers will know I’m a longtime fan of Telnaes’s work, but this new thing […]
I’ve criticized — perhaps even “railed against” — young cartoonists for either misinterpreting history or presenting it as some new discovery when it’s always been there for anyone who wanted to know it.It’s only fair, then, to praise this piece from the Nib, “1968: The Revolution That Almost Was,” by Julia Aleksayeva, who looks at 1968 […]
Heart is a cute little kid whose irrepressible pretensions are adorable. One of my favorite strips.Because she’s about seven years old.By junior high, it becomes silly.If it persists into adulthood, we’re talking delusional and creepy. The unseen driver at the end is that guy, getting the hell out of town but now with the germ of […]
RJ Matson best sums up Trump’s call for the special prosecutor to stop looking into his campaign and for an investigation of why the FBI is doing its job.This whining seems particularly bizarre coming from the side of the spectrum in which police mistreatment of black people is blamed on black people acting suspiciously. Like […]
What are we gonna do with this guy?His nonsensical insistence that law enforcement not look into lawbreaking and his posturing as an imperial power “demanding” their obedience is drawing forth think pieces about how “The Constitutional Crisis is Here” and comparisons to Nixon’s Saturday Night Massacre.Ann Telnaes makes the most dramatic (American) mockery of him, […]