If you’ve read Gulliver’s Travels, you’ve encountered a verbal nicety of those days, which is that nobody calls anyone a liar. Rather, they accuse him of “saying The Thing That Is Not.” You would also encounter such roundabout language throughout the D’Artagnan Romances, although, in those stories, people skirt the word “liar” narrowly, not to […]
And then there was the time… when Schott’s Significa and Davey Jones, Michael Maslin and Rea Irvin, Nebelspalter and Rick McKee, Steven Heller and Peter Kuper, and Lynda Barry and Lynda Barry again were all included in a weekend roundup. And then there was the time… Schott’s Significa Included a Chapter on Comic Conventions John […]
The Dunning-Kruger Effect is about people who don’t realize how little they know about a particular topic. It’s not confined to stupid people and could apply, for instance, to a well-qualified, highly educated physician who spouts nonsense about tectonic plate shifting despite geology not being his area of expertise. There aren’t many people who are […]
This being a “where do we start?” moment, we’ll start before yesterday’s gathering of the brass with Marty Two Bulls’ reaction to the Secretary of Defense War’s restoration of medals of honor to soldiers who participated in the Wounded Knee Massacre. Granted, Two Bulls is Lakota and so has a particular reason to feel that […]
The National Cartoonists Society’s 79th Annual Reuben Awards ceremony recognizes special honorees, celebrates the 2024 nominees and award winners, and pays tribute to those we’ve lost. Open to members and nonmembers, the Awards are a formal, and fun!, celebration of cartoonists and cartooning. Recorded on August 15, 2025 at the Boston Westin Copley in Boston, […]
The Constitution turned 238 yesterday, including the first 10 amendments, aka “The Bill of Rights.” In case you’ve forgotten, or went to a school that didn’t teach history, it was a struggle to come up with a governing document that everyone could agree with. There was a substantial debate in the newspapers between Founders who […]
I can’t argue with Ramirez on this one: Those four nations are certainly a threat to democracy. But it seems like looking out the window at the neighbors’ place while the smoke detectors are going off in your own house. It is a good and proper thing to worry about the folks next door, but […]
First, a look at a pair of Labor Day cartoons that didn’t make deadline yesterday, and, yes, he really has complained about people taking Juneteenth and other federal holidays off. Granted, we don’t really know if he played golf yesterday, because the photos they posted to show he isn’t dead were from a game a […]
The National Cartoonists Society announced the winners of their Reuben Awards for the year 2024 in Boston on Friday August 15, 2025. Below are the nominees and the winners. *Still trying to suss out all the winners, help would be appreciated The National Cartoonists Society has posted the list of Reuben Award winners. The 79th […]
I could do an entire day of cartoons in which Trump and Putin discuss the Ukraine war while Zelenskyy remains out of the conversation. It seems nobody in the world thinks it’s fair or right for the invader and an outside party to determine some other nation’s territory and sovereignty. I like Royaards’ piece because […]
Back in the days when Art Fleming hosted, Jeopardy had a category called “Potpourri” which mostly consisted of leftovers from previous games. Since they no longer use it, I will. If Molina had run this earlier, I’d have used it with yesterday’s critique of Michael Ramirez’s anti-wind cartoon. But I still like it, because he […]
Rowe gets a laugh out of Dear Leader’s attack on Iran despite feeling it represents the death of the UN Charter, because there’s absurdity in the arrogance and chaos in the messaging. One of the factors in our liberation of Kuwait was that GHWB had obtained cooperation from a wide array of allies, and then […]
Murphy’s cartoon seems harsh, but, then again, he isn’t the one who has loosed masked men upon the population or ignored the courts and sent prisoners — many of them legal residents without criminal records — off to foreign gulags without trials. How many Americans recognize the term stasi? Is Gestapo too harsh? How harsh […]
You can’t copyright a title, and, even if you could, Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds would be in the public domain, since it was published in 1841. It is wonderful reading, with stories of the Crusades, the South Sea Bubble, the making of highwaymen into heroes and other follies, and I highly […]
It seems a fairly new YouTube uploader is taking cartoonists’ original cartoons, “re-imagining” (read: swiping) them through the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI), and then passing them off as their own. Pedro X. Molina noted and provided samples: I found this online and thought you might find it interesting. I have no problem with the ethical […]