Not sure what motivated Bennett on this one, but I know why it resonated with me. For some half a century, I imposed journalistic ethics on myself and did not register with a political party. Granted, I was generally in sympathy with one over the other, but I never voted a straight ticket and some […]
Golding offers a Banksyesque tribute to Australia’s new age limitations on social media. The first thing to note is that kids under 16 are not being banned from going on-line. Rather, as of Wednesday, they’re banned from accessing 10 social media platforms: Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Snapchat, X (formerly Twitter), YouTube, Reddit, Twitch, Kick and Threads. Which […]
The Museum of Australian Democracy has named Matt Golding its 2025 Political Cartoonist of the Year. MoAD’s announcement states: Golding was clear winner in the voting for this year’s award. A master of the pocket cartoon, in 2025 he created work that was funny, poignant and constantly inventive. His cartoons covered the big themes of […]
A whole lot of Halloween-themed cartoons are now obsolete, and so, perhaps, are a flood of cartoons about SNAP benefits, given that two separate courts ordered the funds distributed after all. (The “perhaps” being based on the potential for Dear Leader to ignore the courts, or to appeal the decisions.) For the next little while, […]
This certainly set a foul mood for the day. It’s perfectly valid to criticize Hamas, or the Netanyahu government, or ours. But I cannot understand the editing process by which this got through at Tribune or posted at GoComics, and I sincerely hope no newspaper editor would choose to run this hateful slandering of two […]
The Australian Cartoonists Association held their convention this weekend and as part of the gathering presented The 2025 Stanleys, more formally known as The Stan Cross Awards, to cartoonists in various categories. To paraphrase Peter Broelman: Eight Stanleys were awarded for Book Illustrator, Caricaturist, Comic Book Artist, Comic Strip Cartoonist, Editorial/Political Cartoonist, Event Cartoonist, Illustrator […]
If everybody always lies to you, the consequence is not that you believe the lies, but rather that nobody believes anything any longer. … And a people that no longer can believe anything cannot make up its mind. It is deprived not only of its capacity to act but also of its capacity to think […]
This Mike Smith piece ran two weeks ago. I don’t like to hang on to a cartoon that long, but, while I liked it, it seemed a bit hysterical, two weeks ago. But last night Trump’s pet court once again reversed a lower court’s ruling and allowed Dear Leader to cancel either $4 billion or […]
Seems like a good jibe at the expense of our exalted Secretary of Health and Human Services, doesn’t it? But Garry Trudeau was early, because I came across this last week when I was looking through the 2006 archives for flag desecration cartoons. It ran July 2, 2006, which was not only well before RFK […]
I like Rod Emmerson’s commentary on America’s legally protected penchant for mass murder. The fact that he’s observing our national fetish from New Zealand is a good indication of how widely recognized, totally insane and appallingly unique it is. Even more telling is the fact that he drew this in 2015 and posted it now […]
Mellor sets the stage for last week’s Alaskan summit meeting with an homage to David Low’s classic Rendezvous. There are differences between Hitler and Stalin meeting over the corpse of Poland and Trump and Putin meeting over Ukraine, with the major difference being that Ukraine is not only still alive but defiant. The other difference […]
I’ll confess to having paid more attention to the wretched excess in Venice than it deserved, which is any. But, unlike the couple in Milbrath’s cartoon, I did have my chair swung around the other direction, and I have also been paying attention to the wretched excess being foisted upon us all in Washington. According […]
Rowe gets a laugh out of Dear Leader’s attack on Iran despite feeling it represents the death of the UN Charter, because there’s absurdity in the arrogance and chaos in the messaging. One of the factors in our liberation of Kuwait was that GHWB had obtained cooperation from a wide array of allies, and then […]
I suggested yesterday that, while its doubtful that Dear Leader saw the mockery in the media, he must certainly have realized that there weren’t huge cheering throngs at his parade. I can’t prove any connection between that disappointment and his sudden enthusiasm for sending American troops to boldly go where no man with heel spurs […]
Let’s start with the low-hanging fruit before we tackle more complex issues. Dear Leader has had another physical, and, while Telnaes suggests that you never know what you’re going to find when you look under the hood, we have once again heard nothing but good news. Unlike the Great Alphonse Capone, he’s apparently not syphilitic, […]