Jeff Danziger comments on the upcoming talks between Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un, and if you have wondered how far off the mark the Trump Amateur Hour can wander, this is a pretty good example, because the State Department has been hemorrhaging unreplaced talent faster than the White House and, while a meeting like […]
There’s a lot going on in the world and it’s tempting to just throw some pies, squirt a little seltzer and take a break from it all, but, then again, we’re at a moment when not talking politics is in itself a political gesture.Still, we can take a moment to watch Mr. Fitz attempt to […]
Let’s start the day with a topic we can all agree on: One should not paint the toilet.Agnes is planning to surprise her grandmother by redecorating the bathroom and I will say that, if she goes no further than loosening things on the toilet, a surprise is almost guaranteed.The girls had faced the critical question […]
Bob Englehart captures my current feelings about the Florida school shootings, and it’s a mix of shame and anger.Shame because we should care and I do care, and so I feel a little guilty when I turn off the TV because I’m tired of the coverage and wish they’d talk about Meuller’s indictments or something […]
So while I was eating cake and enjoying a blogday party, all Hell was breaking loose, and cartoonists like Ann Telnaes were keeping on top of it.Much as I like this cartoon, it isn’t all that creative, which is not a slam on her but, rather, a commentary on the times.It’s not rote, but it’s […]
Over at L’il Donnie today, Mike Norton despairs of being able to come up with any satire more ridiculous than reality, and I can’t blame him. The Donald is indeed making it hard for political cartoonists. Darrin Bell takes the route of casting doubt on the strangely upbeat report by the White House physician.As I’ve said […]
Part of the mission here is to explain comics. Steve Sack ran this cartoon last week, when Michele Bachmann announced her interest in running for Minnesota’s soon-to-be-open Senate seat.It’s a joke.Steve was not actually hoping that Bachmann would run. He was simply making a joke because she is such a polarizing, absurd figure that, if she […]
Steve Sack gets the last word on this, or, at least, the last word here.As I suspected, the pages now are full of Roy Moore on his horse and Trump being upset. I’m pleased to see the hoopla, because I think the real significance of the election was that it will encourage people to get […]
One advantage of living in Australia is that it’s already tomorrow, so David Rowe got a jump on his American colleagues, who are (as I write this at 5:25 AM EST) just pouring their first cups of coffee.Though I see the NY Daily News also picked up on the irresistable straightline Moore handed everyone. I […]
Steve Sack ignores the command from Central Cartooning to quote Stuart Smalley and, instead, makes a point not so much about Franken’s situation but about the absurdity of being called out for pretending to grope one woman by a guy who was going to sue 16 women — but apparently forgot — for accusing him […]
Mark Anderson offers a good jumping off point today, because he’s right that people want confirmation, not confrontation.That should provoke more of a sad smile than a hearty laugh, but, in any case, it’s a good illustration for a topic in which I will be discussing trends but not breaking the Prime Directive by pointing […]
Steve Sack steps above the partisan divide that has, almost inexplicably, enveloped the Harvey Weinstein et al controversy to put before us what ought to be a priority, but may be becoming simply a momentary distraction.It’s the et al, which he captures on the page of that newspaper, that should pierce through everything else, because […]
Canadian Gary Clement sums up international response to Dear Leader’s UN speech, with his own blind self-satisfaction being what makes the cartoon click.Every world leader is surrounded by sycophants, but I wonder how many hand-pick them for just that reason? There is something very Third Worldish about this, and that observation doesn’t change the situation. At […]
As I expected, there have been a lot of DACA cartoons landing in the past 24 hours, though there are also a lot of cartoons about the approaching hurricane, which make the courageous, controversial editorial point “Here comes a hurricane.” David Horsey gets to represent all the Dream/Nightmare cartoons because he puts it in such stark, […]
The first, which applies to a couple of people, is that I suspect some cartoonists have switched from pen-and-ink to tablets.Actually, I know that several have made the switch, but what I have come to suspect recently is that some have done so perhaps on cheaper tablets or … I dunno … don’t have the […]