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 […]
When politicians become desperate, they raise the flag.It’s not the only symbol of our country, but the GOP is already deeply committed to mandatory motherhood and while they’re enforcing non-existent laws against hurling sandwiches, it apparently hasn’t occurred to them to declare throwing apple pies a form of treason.And so here we go yet again […]
Bennett commented that this cartoon is based on an old joke; I assume it’s the one about the fellow who fell 14 stories and fortunately survived, but, unfortunately, had fallen from15.I have no idea how many stories we’ve fallen so far, but I know it’s going to be a mess when we hit the ground. […]
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 […]
It has come to this.There are differences. The Third Reich was specifically rounding up Jews, while the Trump administration continues to say it is only arresting foreign criminals.But the Nazis were also rounding up Roma and LGBTQ people, and the Trump administration is also rounding up people who look like immigrants. The Nazis never said […]
I don’t know that things seem quite as grim from the inside as Wuerker suggests, though those on the outside have long questioned whether Dear Leader was genuinely accomplishing anything.A Cult of Personality, on the other hand, tends to be fairly steadfast and myopic. The term originated with Stalin and while the Hungarians and Czechs […]
This is one of those “where do we start?” days, but we might as well begin with the massive element of self-deception that makes everything possible. Part of it is embodied in the way so many people seem to be accepting both the inevitability and the desirability of our heading off to yet another war […]
Another of those where-do-we-start days, but fortunately Tom the Dancing Bug has not only provided the big picture, but has done so in explain-it-as-if-I-were-in-kindergarten fashion.If we wanted, we could just run in circles offering theories and insights for everything here until the cows come home, or, more appropriately, until the chickens come home to roost, […]
One can hope, along with Ohman, that Senate Republicans will at least have their staffs read the Big Beautiful Bull and highlight the irrelevant, dangerous parts the House snuck in, like the part that says local government can’t pass bills limiting artificial intelligence.And it wouldn’t hurt to examine some of the relevant but cruel parts […]
Don Jr. and Eric explain the pay-as-you-go presidency, part of a blind trust which means that they control it and Dad has no idea what they’re doing, which indeed sounds like Weekend at Bernie’s.Not quite dead, nor so blind, but, indeed, shilling his cryptocoins and Bibles and golden sneakers (When I get to hebbin gonna […]
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 use […]
The Born Loser, Frank and Ernest, Calvin and Hobbes, Frazz, Bizarro/Bizarfield, Tom the Dancing Bug, Ripley’s Believe It or Not, Big Nate, Eye Lie Popeye, Mutts and, of course, more.The Born Loser archive at GoComics only goes back to 1994, so those of you who didn’t see the debut strip from May 10, 1965 on […]
The National Cartoonists Society (NCS) has announced the finalists for the twelve 2024 Silver Reubens. All eligible entries in each division were reviewed by multiple NCS chapter juries to determine the top nominees. Please note: the Art for Animated Media division was suspended for 2024 due to an insufficient number of qualified entries. And the […]
The master of the Art of the Deal may be recognizing that his good pal Vladimir doesn’t actually respect him that much after all.Whamond is hardly the only one to note the gap between Trump’s campaign promise to end the war in 24 hours and his switch to what people are interpreting as a whine.MacKinnon […]
Petrenko leads off today because I’ve seen so many falling-graph cartoons that they make my eyes glaze over, but he freshens the conceit by making it into a commentary on Trump’s apparent profiteering.Obviously, we’ll have to wait for an investigation to prove that Trump has engaged in insider trading, and, just as obviously, that may […]