As noted yesterday, drawing for Politico gives Wuerker more latitude in creating cartoons that make intellectual demands on people. This, however, is a good example of a cartoon that would do well in a general-circulation magazine in the category of “comforting the afflicted.” I’m not sure it would be as effective in converting anyone to […]
Creating a multi-panel, multi-gag comic poses an obvious problem: You have to be insightful with each panel, and most cartoonists do well to produce five in a row when they’re producing a single comic each day without trying to tie them all into a specific theme.McFadden is lucky while the rest of us are not, […]
There are a lot of Rob Reiner/Pearly Gates cartoons out there, but you won’t see them here. I’m sorry he and his wife are dead, but the best I can do is refer back to John Donne yet again: Each man’s death diminishes me.But Donne also challenged Death, and warned it not to be so […]
There is an expression within the Cold Water Rescue community, “They’re not dead until they’re warm and dead.” It comes from having pulled people out of icy water with no discernible signs of life, only to find that they can be revived by appropriate action as they warm up. Only when they are warm and […]
I agree with Kelley so rarely that it’s only fair to let him start off this post-Thanksgiving edition.He’s right. If Democrats said to do those things, it wouldn’t give you permission, though if you wanted to import 400 tons of cocaine into the US, the president might pardon you as a good guy. But if […]
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, we […]
A bit of a gentle start, since things may get a little rough before we’d done. Granted, Horsey makes Russ Vought look like a mad scientist, offering America a trip in his time machine.But it could be worse, because, beyond that, what Vought offers is a trip back to a time that colors the notion […]
Davies proves that there’s no situation so dire that you can’t wring a laugh out of it, so long as the laugh is dark and points out the overlying absurdity of things. In this case, he draws an obviously good-spirited, harmless alien, in conversation with an obviously good-spirited civilian, and a half-dozen large, masked men. […]
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 […]
It’s a good day to round up a few topics that have been waiting for a good day to be rounded up. BTW, some people solve this rebus immediately while others get hung up trying to be too specific about the image in the middle. Don’t overthink it.Alcaraz declines to knuckle under. It would be […]
Happy Labor Day. Things aren’t quite as grim as Sheneman paints them, but cartoonists and other satirists are supposed to exaggerate to make their points. Presidents are expected to put a bright face on things, as Jimmy Carter learned when he explained things frankly in what came to be known as “the Malaise Speech,” outlining […]
We’ve had some smoky days here, but — looking at the AirNow.gov map — nothing like what they’re seeing in the Midwest and certainly not what they’re seeing in large swaths of Canada. We had readings of 83 yesterday, just shy of the “Unhealthy for Sensitive Groups” level, but high “Moderate” enough that people reported […]
Wuerker takes advantage of a metaphor coined by Dan Tom Tomorrow Perkins in a 2017 interview with the Irish Times:[It’s] like waking up and saying ‘I’d like a glass of water’ and then having someone spray you in the face with a fire hose. One of the biggest challenges of the Trump presidency has been […]
Ramirez gets us off to a good start today, because the Epstein issue is a strange thing to put at the top of the list of current crises, or at least it would be in a more sane world.It ought to be easy to resolve: There was this guy, he did these awful things and […]
Dear Leader has announced another set of tariffs, which he claims will likely be modified once he has concluded trade deals with the nations involved, which is most of them, or possibly more than all of them, since he once said “There’s 200 countries. You can’t talk to all of them.’’You certainly can’t, because there […]