Brewster Rockit being set in the distant future, today’s got a chuckle, granted a mordant, dark, very bad chuckle.Well, with, as Gary Varvel notes, editorial cartooning in a state of crisis, we could all use a chuckle.But the people in the newsroom don’t get it, and that’s part of the problem: They’re not business people, […]
Jimmy Margulies leads off the conversation with a reflection on the upcoming holiday and our American identity.There are all sorts of things wrong with this drawing, I suppose, starting with the kids not being crowded enough and the facility not being a series of indoor cages.And of course we can argue over what it should […]
The above pun sets a five-cartoon limit on our largest Juxtaposition ever:(Clay Bennett)(Pat Bagley)(David Rowe)(Matt)(Mike Luckovich)I have very little to add to any of these, except maybe to note on behalf of Matt Pritchett and David Rowe that I’m glad we could give them a properly British take beyond sparring over Brexit.It isn’t often that […]
David Rowe on the conviction, in an Australian court, of George Cardinal Pell for sexually assaulting choir boys.Rowe has a well-earned reputation for amusingly ghastly depictions of people, but I think he wisely recognized that there’s no need for it this time, and that linked article, though a model of objective reporting, is horrific enough […]
First, this note to editorial cartoonists: If Elizabeth Warren had — without claiming any advantage for it — said that her family spoke of African-American heritage, was mocked and called “Aunt Jemima” for it, but then took a DNA test that bore out her claim, would you depict her as a triumphant minstrel-show mammy?Don’t put […]