Katauskas isn’t exaggerating by a whole lot, and while the current flood of insanity might make it hard for a fortuneteller to go off the rails, the resulting target-rich environment poses a different challenge for political cartoonists.There is, first of all, the question of which event to pick up on. You don’t want to avoid […]
Canada’s National Newspaper Awards has announced the finalists for the 2024 awards and in the category for Editorial Cartooning the finalists are Michael de Adder of the Halifax Chronicle Herald/The Globe and Mail; Gabrielle Drolet of The Globe and Mail; and Patrick LaMontagne of the Calgary Herald/Calgary Sun.The cartoonists’ portfolios, along with all the other […]
Somehow Captain America looks kind of ridiculous in Andy Bundy’s cover illustration for Realpolitik, though I can’t find that the magazine has any on-line presence. But he adds the slug “Captain America-First” unleashes tariffs against China but also Canada and Mexico, bullying his allies and neighbours while turning away from many of the real threats to global […]
A Michael de Adder cartoon about Jim Acosta leaving CNN has created a bond between the two. The Daily Mail noticed the respect and appreciation the two shared: Jim Acosta appeared to take a swipe at his old network CNN this week, a little more than a day after his pointed on-air sign-off. The journalist […]
Pat Bagley expresses the situation well: As firefighters struggle to control the wildfires in Southern California, the press also struggles with disinformation about those wildfires.The press wouldn’t be stuck with a mere squirtbottle if the only problem they faced were the normal flow of rumors and misconceptions that plague every major news event. But in […]
Garth German makes a good point, though I suspect he’s too late and we can’t reverse the process now.Here’s a relevant quote from Herman Wouk in the Caine Mutiny: The Navy is a master plan designed by geniuses for execution by idiots. If you are not an idiot, but find yourself in the Navy, you can […]
Ian Boothby is right: Paying attention to what’s going on is not good for you. Unfortunately, failure to pay attention to what’s going on is even worse for everybody in the long run.And while there may be some dark satisfaction in schadenfreude, hoping for people to realize what they’ve wrought won’t stop what they’ve wrought […]
Matt Pritchett has a talent for reducing complexities to simple imagery.Journalistic neutrality is a polite fiction, but it works if you take it seriously, as we once did.Walter Cronkite is often held up as the model for broadcasters. When he took off his glasses in announcing the death of JFK, or when he showed boyish […]
Michael deAdderBen GarrisonWe won’t get through all the emerging political cartoons about the election today, but here are the bookends: de Adder sees it as the monster returning, referencing Poltergeist, the 1982 horror film about a gateway opening up to the other side, while Garrison cites the Magnificent Seven, in which a group of heroes […]
We’ll get to knaves and fools in a minute, but first a salute to unintentional genius, as The Brilliant Mind of Edison Lee (KFS) magically riffs on the McDonald’s e coli outbreak despite having been scripted and drawn well before it happened. Sometimes the Fates smile and make you look really smart, but, alas, there […]
Scott Stantis isn’t the only media person upset because Kamala Harris isn’t playing the game right, though it should be noted that he’s not one of the celebrity journalists who aren’t getting proper respect.Still, he’s right: She hasn’t made the usual rounds that aspiring politicians are expected to make, and as a result a large […]
Michael de Adder offers a State of the Disunion Address for political cartooning. As noted the other day, I suspect that, while several cartoonists are of an age to have been disillusioned by the murder, the reason for the flood of OJ cartoons, most of them set in Hell, seems a desire to jump on […]
Brewster Rockit (Tribune) gets to lead off for a second day in a row, having shifted from the informational back to the absurd.As noted, I stayed home rather than driving the four hours to my old digs in the Adirondacks, and I missed both totality and a good party, but we had a nice picnic […]
Start with an explainer from Brewster Rockit (Tribune). The strip is usually an absurdist laff-fest, but it breaks from time to time for an explanation, which goes to show that humor is funnier when the joker understands the topic.And, boy, would I like to carve that in stone. The cartoons that work are the ones […]
The big news this morning is about Tucker Carlson’s interview with Vladimir Putin last night. It was so predictable that cartoonists weighed in days before it happened, which would normally be dangerous but, well, not always.Bill Bramhall widened his vision to take in the international significance, as Carlson’s fawning is tied into Republican refusal to […]