Granlund offers attractive art and an odd concept, which is how readily, and how quickly, we have allowed ourselves to be dragged back into another interminable, self-destructive war in the Middle East.After all, we haven’t finished killing our allies from our last glorious overseas adventure.But, of course, we didn’t get into this war in the […]
Today being Ash Wednesday, Fat Tuesday cartoons are out of date, but it being our weekly Hump Day, you’ll see several cartoons that are slightly past their use-by dates. That’s the way it goes.I had a friend who went to Mardi Gras in 1969 and told me all about it. It sounded like great fun, […]
“From the least of them to the greatest, all are greedy for gain; from prophet to priest, all practice deceit. They dress the wound of My people with very little care, saying, ‘Peace, peace,’ when there is no peace at all. Are they ashamed of the abomination they have committed? No, they have no shame at all; they do not even know how to blush.” […]
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 […]
An exhibit curated to showcase offensive cartoons that was cancelled in May for being too offensive has a new site where the proprietors aren’t quite so milquetoast as the original forum owners turned out to be.From Alex Farber at The Times of London: The curator of a cancelled exhibition of political cartoons is confident that […]
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 is […]
It’s not often I find myself agreeing with the McCoy brothers, but this 2013 strip echoes my feelings. Back when I was in an Irish pub band, we had mixed feelings about March 17, because it was an excellent payday but one we hated for just the reason the McCoys illustrate above.In fact, a year […]
Bliss (Tribune) comes to my rescue. It’s been extremely cold here, but it’s also been extremely necessary to get out with the dog and away from the idiots, which sounds like an arrogant judgment, but it’s actually the most polite and charitable.After all, we’re not just seeing our incoming president insult and threaten our major […]
A happy ending for this Stephen Collins cartoon: Liz Truss did indeed come up with a title, and, though her book hasn’t been published yet, she did get to speak to a half-empty room at CPAC, which seems like an unnecessary effort, since she could have stayed home in Britain and spoken before a group […]
Martyn Turner gets a gold star today, not for the intent of his cartoon, since I know nothing about David Cameron, who has replaced Suella Braverman, but for having correctly cited the old sailors’ myth of rats prophetically leaving a sinking ship.Cartoonists continually draw ships at sea, listing as they begin to sink beneath the […]
I’m with Katy in today’s Adam@Home. We haven’t had actual snow here lately but we’ve only had two days of warm sunshiny weather so far and even the warmish days that might have come close have, instead, featured cold winds. It might as well be March.However, the birds are back, including the cormorants, as featured […]
Ed Hall drew this one a few days ago, as the Taliban resurgence was just beginning, and it all fell down about as fast as that.As appropriate a metaphor it is, it’s an ironic one in light of the continuing flood of “evacuating Saigon” cartoons, because, as noted the other day, Afghanistan is not Vietnam, […]