Steve Sack returns to the drawing board, KAL shows how he creates and provides a flow chart, Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novelist Tessa Hulls is interviewed, Freebies: Comics Research Bibliography and Addenda and The Blue Road to Trump Hell, American Library’s list of Youth Media Awards (the Newbery, the Caldecott, the Alex for Peter Kuper, and […]
In case you missed it, the world has shifted, and, as Eliot predicted, not with a bang, but a whimper. A bang you would have noticed, and perhaps resisted. A whimper sneaks up, and yet, once it is in place, you wonder how you could have missed it before. Or perhaps you don’t, which is […]
Whoopee! Steve Sack Has a Substack! Editorial cartoonist and 3D sculptor Steve Sack has set up a Substack called The Art of Sack. Sez Steve: Hello everyone! Welcome to the first edition of The Art of Sack. Each post pairs one of my Sack Classics — an editorial cartoon from my five decades in newspapers […]
(Here is the CSotD from January 7, 2021, the morning after the coup attempt. I’ve resisted the temptation to add notes and updates, since it should stand as a record of how cartoonists rallied within 24 hours of the event.)CSotD: Slouching Towards Bedlam I was almost tempted to simply post Marco De Angelis (Cartoon Movement)‘s […]
We’ll start with a gamble that didn’t pay off, as seen in Nick Anderson (Counterpoint)’s cartoon. As you may have heard, CNN launched a streaming service, CNN+, which was then cancelled before it was a month old.But the gamble wasn’t that they thought it would catch on and it didn’t. I had some quibbles with […]
There have been several cartoons comparing Putin to either Hitler or Stalin, but I like Robert Ariail’s, because it is very simple and yet pinpoints Stalin’s legacy in Ukraine, where he engineered a ghastly, deadly famine in which millions died.All former Soviets remember their losses to the Germans in World War II, but the earlier […]
Michael de Adder declares sanctions a failure within hours of the announcement of the first full rounds, mocking Biden’s response as silly and futile.There’s a real temptation to ask “What do you think we should do, then?”Tucker Carlson would, of course, offer a way of dealing with Putin that involves soft lighting and scented oils, […]
I agree with Tom Stiglich (Creators) so very rarely that I’m going to give him the honor of leading off today’s rant.I don’t agree with him that Hillary Clinton is a villain. I like her, and I think she’d have made a pretty good president and certainly an improvement on what we got instead.But, as […]
If you follow any cartoonists on social media, you’ve probably already seen Ann Telnaes’ interactive analysis of the January 6 insurrection, because her colleagues have been praising and forwarding it since she unveiled it yesterday.That’s unusual, not because of professional competition but simply because cartoonists tend to sit back and watch the market rather than […]
We’ll start out with some good news, via Steve Brodner: Not only did the Kellogg’s workers ratify a new contract, but it seems like they got pretty much what they wanted and that management — who had threatened to replace them with scabs — got pretty much not a whole lot except several months of […]
My first impression of this Steve Breen (Creators) piece was that he obviously hadn’t read up on the particular level of sanctions which Biden apparently proposed, should Putin (further) invade Ukraine.As noted here (and in the general news coverage), it’s not just the type of sanctions against individual oligarchs that Obama invoked in Putin’s initial […]
Ann Telnaes offers a good reflection on what we may have just seen happen.I hadn’t expected either a full conviction on all charges or a full exoneration, so I’m a little gobsmacked at the moment, but I think the Rittenhouse verdict falls in somewhere among the acquittals of OJ Simpson on charges of murdering his […]
Jeff Koterba starts us off with a “Yes, but No” take on Michael Flynn’s bizarre declaration that the US is and must be a Christian nation. Yes, the nation was founded on the principle of freedom of (and from) religion: Any fair reading of the Founders, and any literate reading of the Constitution, makes that […]
Nick Anderson (Counterpoint) manages the only tasteful riff I’ve seen on that accidental movie set shooting.It’s not a real gun and GOP claims of a stolen election are equally fake and, alas, they’re both equally deadly.The question is not whether Donald Trump believes his Big Lie — he’s been a bullshit artist all his life […]
There’s a lot to like in Steve Sack‘s cartoon, which plays upon the recent decision to allow booster shots of whatever is available rather than the specific vaccine you had before.Not only is it a good wrap-up of the major lies being promoted and accepted, but the dizzy, satisfied smile on the face of the […]