Something is happening in the streets of France, but what it is ain’t exactly clear. And looking at the cartoons doesn’t provide much clarity. That seems normal, doesn’t it? I happened to be in Europe in 1965 when the Watts Riots exploded, and seeing it from there, you’d think the entire West Coast was up […]
The current distraction in Britain is that the Bayeux Tapestry is visiting from its home in France. The 11th Century tapestry is 70 meters long and 50 centimeters high, which wouldn’t fit in my livingroom but then it wasn’t designed for peasants. It depicts events leading to the conquest of Britain by William the Conqueror […]
The UK Press Awards has named Matt Pritchett their 2026 Cartoonist of the Year at last nights awards ceremony. The Press Awards recognizes the “best of national journalism in the UK.” Matt has been with The Telegraph since 1988.Unfortunately, at the moment, the Press Awards website’s has the wrong description and judges comments for his […]
Perhaps you have to be further away to see it clearly. Leahy views things from Australia, and apparently from there it appears that only Trump and Netanyahu think the war in Iran is a good idea, and also that Trump may have an ulterior motive. Or perhaps the message is that it only appears that […]
A little late, dated four days after the Big Event, but if you remove the glands under their legs, they reportedly cook up like rabbit or chicken. However, don’t try to eat Phil. Nothing about sentiment, but he’s kind of old and would be pretty tough.Hey, they’re gonna eat your garden. What goes around comes […]
Below are some comic and cartoon books scheduled for November 2025 release (or so). Images and links from a variety of publishers and outlets, though ordering through your local comic shop or independent book store is a good idea. Terry and the Pirates: The Master Collection, vol. 12 by Milton Caniff The saga continues in Terry […]
Arcadio Esquivel reaches for one of my least favorite images, the notion that cavemen mated by bopping women over their heads and dragging them away. This fits no primitive society I’m aware of; in all the hunter/gatherer societies I’ve read about, women are the cornerstones and they make the decisions about who will marry whom, […]
Jen Sorensen starts us off with a plain statement: The Bill of Rights is no longer part of our government, or of our daily lives. Freedom of speech and freedom of the press can be restricted if people speak or write things that go against official policy, and freedom of religion means the freedom to […]
I don’t like to repeat a topic, operating largely on a “You snooze, you lose” basis with political cartoonists and expecting them to leap to their drawing boards when something major happens.But I awoke this morning to a plethora of new cartoons about the security breach, and not just a metric plethora but a good […]
I suppose the best place to begin is with the USMCA which replaced NAFTA which replaced the FTA, NAFTA having brought Mexico under the trade umbrella that began with the US and Canada.It wasn’t completely clear at the time why President Donald Trump felt compelled to redraw NAFTA, but he saw things in the old […]
Below are some comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for February 2025 release (or so). Images and links from a variety of publishers and outlets, though ordering through your local comic shop or independent book store is a good idea. The Life and Art of Mort Walker by Bill Janocha Mort Walker, the “Dean of […]
Thanksgiving was lovely, and Steve Kelley (Creators) even provided an early Christmas present for his critics, saving them from needing to make much of an effort to refute his political beliefs. Instead, he scored an own-goal by revealing that he thinks the Von Trapp family is Jewish and must surely have fled Austria to save […]
Patrick Blower isn’t the only one roped in by an international fraud.The notion that kids were “identifying” as animals began with an intentional lie in this country some years ago and, when it resurfaced last summer, it was almost immediately slapped down as transphobic propaganda. There were no kids who thought they were cats, there […]
Tomorrow is the big day and the celebrations will be spectacular. But before you head out for an evening of cerveza and tacos, you can get up early and watch the Official Coronation of King Charles III. In fact, if you get up early enough, it’s nearly all you can watch, though our local Fox […]
British political cartoonists play rough, but even those like Matt who deal in topical humor have an edge that gives their work some bite. Here he does a concise job of summing up the bowdlerization of the late Roald Dahl’s work.For those who have missed the outcry, the company that owns the rights to Dahl’s […]