Graeme MacKay uses the matryoshka doll image well here, both because we all recognize the Russian toy and because, in this case, the layers of hiding boil down to that last tiny doll, the one that is just a little wooden nib at the end.Mueller’s indictments are important because they aren’t simply accusations, but proof […]
The Boston Globe and The Nib cartoonist Ward Sutton will be honored by the Herb Block Foundation tonight as the 2018 winner of their eponymous prize.According to the Herb Block Foundation site: “We were greatly impressed by the quality and breadth of submissions, with so much outstanding work being done in all types of political cartooning. But […]
Matt Bors really struck home for me with this one, both for the cartoon itself and within a context of his recent work.Bors has become an ardent champion of Millennials, of which he is at the leading edge, having been born in 1983, two years into the demographic. On my 33rd birthday, as it happens.We […]
So simple an eight-year-old could do it.Actually, I’m not sure how old Edison Lee is, but I suspect that he could do taxes because he hasn’t yet been steeped in April 15 Fear, which is found in the cartooning bible somewhere between all those slippery banana peels and the pies cooling off on open windowsills.Mind […]
Bill Day on the reception the kids from Marjory Stoneman Douglas received from their elected representatives in Tallahassee. As you may know, the students from Parkland — or, that is, the ones who weren’t murdered the other day — went to the state capital to lobby the legislature to talk about gun safety, and the legislature […]
Well, sure.Clay Bennett is correct that the Nunes memo turned out to be, well, a trumpery. And, in terms of what it says, it’s not going to stop that Magnificent Bastard from moving forward, doing his job and once more serving his nation.What the memo boils down to is that the FBI sought a FISA […]
So Animatronic Trump has come to Earth and I’m blaming Ray.Animatronic Trump is nearly as scary as the real one. I’ve never been to the Hall of Presidents or the Magic Kingdom at all, though I did visit Disneyland back when I was 9 and Donnie was 13, before Disneyland began banning men with long […]
The last event of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists convention was a dinner and awards ceremony for which I put on a tie for the first time in a couple of years, but that symbolizes much of what I liked so much about this convention: You were expected to wash behind your ears for […]
There are all sorts of Harvey Weinstein cartoons floating around at the moment, but a lot of them miss the point.Or, at least, they miss my point. Oddly enough, my point was served up on a silver platter by happenstance in the form of today’s Vintage Juliet Jones, which originally ran July 21, 1960, when […]
John Cole leads off today because, though this is a national cartoon, the Pennsylvania cartoonist hit with a local cartoon for those of us in New Hampshire.In case you missed it — and the Washington Post has a lovely editorial on it — Cole nails this utter nitwittery, which is that Kobach is head of […]
Retail tries to ruin my mood, but the coffeeshop down the road already has their pumpkin-spice latte sign out, so my mood was pre-ruined for the season.I really like pumpkin pie. I like sweet potato pie more, because it tends to have more texture, but it’s also considerably more elusive, I guess because it’s a […]
There are other things going on in the world than “two insane nitwits waving nuclear weapons,” and Phil Hands takes note of the promises of Foxxcon in Wisconsin.Which, like Jack and the Beanstalk and so much more, relies on people believing things they really ought not to. Jack emerged from the story a hero, but he […]
xkcd couldn’t have hit me with this one at a better time. My inbox management is bad enough, but after two back-to-back road trips, it’s totally out of control and, while I don’t quite feel a need to craft a long, sincere response to everything in it, I do suffer from “I’ll take a look at […]
Dutch cartoonist Bart Van Leeuwen sets the tone with this portrait of the G-20 leaders — or, as that out-of-focus backdrop says, the “G19.25” — a more devastating comment because of his semi-realistic style.He’s certainly not the first nor only cartoonist to portray Trump as a petulant, willful baby, but this could not be a […]
Back in the early-mid-80s, I did an interview with a TV station manager noted for his three-minute editorials on the news, who pointed out that he had a lot more viewers than the station across town that had a weekly, 30-minute public service Sunday morning program called “Involvement.””Involvement?” he said. “Have you seen the ratings […]