For those who missed it, Maryland vs. King concerns a man arrested in 2009 for menacing a group of people with a shotgun. Upon arrest, his DNA was taken and fed into a computer, whereupon it was matched with the DNA of a rapist in a 2003 case, for which crime he was subsequently convicted.He […]
The impact of sequestration cutbacks on airport operations triggered a response in Congress and that, in turn, triggered a response from cartoonists.Some — particularly in the days between the emergence of the issue and the legislative fix — were content simply to point out the problem, which I suppose was okay, since moving things forward […]
Scott Stantis brings Boston into focus, but not in a particularly comforting way.One of what I guess you could call the “geopolitical-psychological” disadvantages of being a very large country and sharing the continent with only a couple of New World buddies is that we have never been forced to develop much empathy with the rest […]
When Scott Stantis posted a link to his latest ChiTrib cartoon on Facebook yesterday, I commented that he needs to save this one for his portfolio. It is a keeper.Yes, I know, I just went all fanboy on him the other day, and here he is again already. But the blog is called “Comic Strip of […]
Kevin Kallaugher with a pithy analysis of the discussions thus far. He’s got a point, but I’m not sure where we go with it, mostly because the “Where’s the meat?” questions remain largely at least uncovered if not unanswered.For instance, I’ve heard so many versions of “close the loopholes” and “eliminate deductions” that I’m not […]
I have praised Scott Stantis several times here for (A) being a conservative with a sense of humor and (B) not being an ideologue.Here’s a particularly fine example, both in and of itself and in contrast to a lot of other stuff.The past couple of weeks have seen some really poor cartooning, particularly from the […]
Todd Akin’s remarks on “legitimate rape” provided the kind of moment you know will spawn a thousand editorial cartoons. I wanted to give it a few days to swirl, because it didn’t seem like the sort of cartooning prompt that was going to produce good work in a short period.And, true enough, the first few […]
There was a moment in 1996 that seemed like that point at which the clank-clank-clank ends and the rollercoaster slips over the top of the first hill and starts into freefall.Jay Leno started making wisecrack’s about Bob Dole’s age, and, sitting at home, I said, “uh-oh,” not because I supported Dole but because, once Leno […]
For a little over a decade, I would go into high schools and spend the day lecturing on political cartoons. I’d begin by talking about the partisan press, how, a century or so ago, each town had two papers — Republican and Democratic — and they would launch totally one-sided, predictable attacks on their opponents, which was […]
In last week’s post, noting Prickly City’s move from the desert to Washington, DC, I said that Scott Stantis is unique among conservative cartoonists in that he’s willing to go where the jokes are, even if he crosses a few lines to get there.For instance.