Canada has never been a non-aligned country; they were in both World Wars before the US shook off its isolationism. But Carney’s outreach to China reminds me of something a former official of Cambodia told me, which is that even supposedly non-aligned nations need to make friends, and Cambodia had thrown in with the Americans […]
The story of George Washington and the cherry tree never happened; it was one of the tales invented by Parson Weems in a biography he wrote after Washington’s death, for which he made up stories to demonstrate the president’s virtues. Margulies updates the story to bring it in line with our current president, who makes […]
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, […]
On New Year’s Eve we have a tsunami of political cartoon Best Ofs being issued. We start this round(up) with the Summer (July through September) and Fall (October through December) 2025 picks from The Everett (Wash) Herald who rotates their choices among the Cagle Cartoons cast, including: John Darkow, Michael de Adder, Rick McKee, Dave […]
I don’t know how many times I’ve alluded to this, but if you’re never seen Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, it’s time you did, because the question of “truth and illusion” is currently far more relevant than it was 60 years ago. The drama is a cross between Theatre of the Absurd plays like Endgame […]
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 […]
Anderson tells the story economically and all but wordlessly. We assume that whatever Dear Leader is saying doesn’t count as actual dialogue, and the donkey’s smile is so eloquent that the blanket on his back was unnecessary. We all know what he’s hee-hawing about.It was, to be sure, a first-class ass kicking, and Matson correctly […]
Ann Telnaes provokes a response of “Well, yes, but no …”I think I’m done wondering whether Trump is a deliberate liar or truly believes the preposterous nonsense he says. I’ve compared him in the past to OJ Simpson and Jeffrey MacDonald, both of whom denied murders that they most assuredly committed. I think they were […]
Brodner hits on a couple of levels with this one. When Nikita Khruschev said “We will bury you,” most Americans took it as a threat, given that it was the middle of the Cold War. But it was an idiomatic expression meaning “We will be here when you’re gone,” similar to saying “We will dance […]
There are a lot of cartoons about the renovation/destruction of the White House, but I like Matson’s take because it not only captures the ambitious glorification involved but the combination of fantasy and madness behind the action.If nothing else, we no longer have to ask if Dear Leader believes the things he says, because as […]
We’re discussing news from other countries today, but I’m starting with a story from right here because the Department of Justice doesn’t often hand out laughs and I have a particular fondness for this metaphor. I covered a case 30-some years ago in which a pet store called our newsroom wanting coverage of what they […]
It’s not this simple.As Bennett suggests, both sides are getting talking points out of the government shutdown. However, it’s unclear how much each side benefits or is damaged by the situation, in part because of the rhetoric being tossed around and in part because it hasn’t gone on long enough for its effects to be […]
Does anybody even care about Ronald Reagan anymore? His presidency (1981-89) is cited as the starting point for the Republican revolution, though many more politicians and commentators were involved in that movement. But Reagan was more than a figurehead; he was active and charismatic and, as Ohman recalls, intent on uniting the nation, even if […]
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. […]
There are approximately one kabillion Tylenol cartoons out there, but I’m letting Marlette speak to the topic, because Dear Leader did an absolutely masterful job of throwing up a distraction. Not only are the editorial pages full of Tylenol commentary but there are news features and social media postings explaining just how inaccurate the warning […]