Anderson nails our current situation well in his latest piece, and addresses a matter that has bothered me for several years.As you can see from his sig, Ratt introduced the concept six years ago. I liked it then, but I couldn’t take the warning literally. It’s an oversimplification to say our Civil War was fought […]
One of the issues in compiling cartoons about yesterday’s killing of Alex Pretti was that very few cartoonists were able to get their work posted on the official sites by this morning. Another, more disturbing, issue was that many cartoons, reposted on social media, were about the ongoing brutality of ICE, which made it hard […]
As noted yesterday, drawing for Politico gives Wuerker more latitude in creating cartoons that make intellectual demands on people. This, however, is a good example of a cartoon that would do well in a general-circulation magazine in the category of “comforting the afflicted.” I’m not sure it would be as effective in converting anyone to […]
Mike Lynch, Jim Keefe, Patrick McDonnell, Steve Brodner, and David G. Brown talk the about the art.Mike Lynch Interview Eerie Rottica, burlesque performer and cartoonist, interviews Mike Lynch cartoonist and arts teacher. EERIE: In my burlesque acts I rely on a formula of setup & reveal. So far, I’ve been comparing this to the formula […]
Stegelin’s New Year’s cartoon didn’t take long to come true, but, then, it’s not as if we didn’t know things would fail. Steve Bannon’s advice to the rightwing was to “flood the zone with sh*t,” and it has been working: We barely begin to deal with one outrage before the next occurs and the earlier […]
I said yesterday that I assumed cartoonists would leap to their drawing boards over the US strike into Venezuela and they didn’t disappoint, though their newspapers and syndicates didn’t match their pace. Nearly everything I found came from social media. But today’s headline, “The First 24,” relates to time. I have nearly 24 graphic responses […]
Good advice from one traditional figure of the new year to another. Some years, the editorial cartoons look forward to progress and improvements, but this isn’t one of those years and nobody has any grand expectations for 2026. It’s also traditional for killjoys like myself to point out that, while a few new laws have […]
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 […]
I went looking for interesting Thanksgiving cartoons of the past but didn’t find much I hadn’t seen repeatedly since. But having praised big, wide newspapers yesterday, I got a kick out of this 1925 piece by Gluyas Williams. As for this year’s Thanksgiving, Tom Tomorrow offers a panoramic survey of the mess we’re in. It’s […]
This may seem like an odd place to start, but it’s actually perfect. In case you missed it, FIFA, the organization that runs the World Cup tournament, recently announced that it has a brand-new Peace Prize and strongly hinted that it will present it to Donald Trump on December 5 when they draw the matches […]
Okay, it wasn’t a wrap. It was a sub or, as it’s called in some places, a hoagie or grinder. But Huck gets the prize for using another alternative term — “hero” — and not only doing so, but posting this after the trial began but before the jury declined to convict.The latest defeat for […]
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 universally […]
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 […]
So there were a few Elvis sightings that came across my feed among the No Kings protests, though Jeff Weigel of The Sunday Phantom fame went with a different King. Jeff went with Jack “King” Kirby art from 1966. Ann Telnaes offered her cartoons as images for signs (as did Liza Donnelly and Steve Brodner). […]