It’s World Press Freedom Day, which seems to be noted in other countries more than it is in the United States. This cartoon is one of several on the topic at Cartoon Movement and is by Egyptian cartoonist Doaa Eladl.I’ll admit I haven’t kept up with the specifics of the back-and-forth in Egypt since the Arab […]
When I can do a mix, I usually start with the funny stuff and then do politics, but somehow they’re becoming indistinguishable. Clay Jones has a most excellent rant to go with this cartoon, which is basically that Trump would rather talk to Fox & Friends than Mueller, but he can destroy himself in either […]
First, let’s sweep up the WCHA business with this Matt Wuerker cartoon that even includes actual pearl-clutching and beautifully captures the faux outrage, or the hypocrisy, however you want to frame it.I’m not sure the weeping snowflakes are sufficiently self-aware to be hypocrites. Their outrage, however misplaced and misconstrued, seems perfectly sincere, in the same way […]
I find most generational/technical-gap gags pretty lame, but I really like today’s Zits, and would be curious to know how postcard sales have been impacted, first by digital cameras and second by the Internet.According to Wikipedia, there was a craze for postcards touched off by the Columbian Exhibition, which opened 125 years ago this coming […]
I held back a few days on the Bill Cosby conviction because I wanted to see the cartoons that would emerge. Steve Breen has, I think, the best take.Attempts to be humorous — to cite Jell-O pudding pops or contrast his flamboyant sweaters with prison garb — seem to fall flat. Had he been convicted […]
Okay, now I’m completely confused. Just as Judge Parker was getting somewhere in the business of tying up any loose ends it couldn’t simply eliminate, semi-celebrity Godiva Danube has reappeared, Neddy is freaking out over being seen waiting tables and her fellow-waitron suddenly drops a wall-shattering piece of patented Marciuliano dialogue on us.Careful, fellas. It […]
We’ll warm up with this bit of gallows humor from On the Fastrack, which happens to coincide with a spate of layoffs from McClatchy papers in the West, primarily at the Sacramento Bee, where 15 newsroom employees and 8 production types are being cut.But, of course, it could have run any time and coincided with […]
I could start and end with this Tom Toles piece, which not only summarizes our incoherent, solipsistic foreign relations stance but also captures the same tendencies in Dear Leader.It’s no surprise that a man who lies incessantly about things a third-grader could prove were false — like claiming not to have spent the night in […]
Juxtaposition of the Day (Prickly City) (Ann Telnaes)Bring it on, Dear Leader.Scott Stantis, who wasn’t at the Satire Symposium but whose name came up, and Ann Telnaes, who was at work on the above piece even as things went on around her, both pull the nose of our would-be dictator. Let’s point out that Hustler v […]
I like Mike Luckovich’s obit cartoon for Barbara Bush, because it suggests an edge to her that I could certainly see and that others reported from time to time.And which you sure wouldn’t pick up on from the mawkish, sentimental glurge so many other cartoonists provided.I would normally despise a tear in a cartoon, particularly […]
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 […]
Start here: All three finalists for the 2018 Pulitzer Prize in Editorial Cartooning did excellent work.And for those who come here often, there’s no need for me to disclose my general contempt for awards: I’ve frequently written how much I dislike them and how little stock I place in them.But, since I’m about to disrespect […]
It’s not unusual for me to come across a cartoon that I basically like but with which I have a quibble. I generally pass them by because it’s too much effort to add qualifications when there are other cartoons that don’t require it.However, I ran into several such pieces today and it seemed like the […]
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 […]
Maybe Scott Stantis saw something I missed, but I’m not sure what his lead time is on Prickly City and I’m not gonna go back and look this up anyway. However, and for whatever reason, she made a thankfully short splash on social media recently and, golly, it was like she’d never gone away, with people […]