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“Truth and Illusion, George. You don’t know the difference.” “No, but we must carry on as though we did.” “Amen.”                                        — Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? I was delighted to see Jen Sorensen address the stereotype that […]

I suppose Michael de Adder (Ind) sums it up best: We’ve gone off the rails and Dear Leader continues to sit there tweeting away.The question now being not so much “So what?” as “Now what?” Yesterday, I joked about an Oprah-style rally where everyone who attended got a pardon, and Clay Bennett (CTFP) jokes about a […]

I usually add a short video at the end of each post, but today I’ll be adding a long one — an hour and 10 minutes — because Ann Telnaes and Kal Kallaugher, with the help of David Folkenflik, held an extraordinary discussion of political cartooning as journalism as part of the  Santa Fe Council […]

A whole lot of cartoons just went obsolete, including this one by Mike Luckovich (AJC). But others spring up to take their place, and this Pat Byrnes (Cagle) piece makes a lovely companion piece to Luckovich’s earlier cartoon, the pair, taken together, offering a reasonable perspective on the past several weeks.Even yesterday’s concession was half-hearted at […]

Marty Two Bulls certainly has standing to make this observation, but I would point out that he’s saying something less about “cancel culture” and more about honest history.That’s not to say that a frank reassessment of our history might not require some adjustments, including settling some land claims in the case of Indians, and consideration […]

There are many reasons to like Mike Thompson‘s cartoon, starting with the timing.I hit a point last night where I didn’t want to read the arguing and self-sanctities on my computer anymore and I didn’t want to watch the talking heads promote their talking points on TV, and so I just read books that had […]

Tom Tomorrow scores in an increasingly difficult sector of the editorial cartooning world.Altie cartoonists like him, like Tom the Dancing Bug, Matt Bors, Jen Sorensen, have carved out a niche in which they use multi-panel cartoons to make a point through reductio ad absurdum fantasies.It was an easier gig back when politics and politicians were […]

There is a wealth of political cartoon commentary at the moment, and I could do a roundup of everything said on any one of several topics, but I’m going to do more of a roundup of everything, starting with Matt Wuerker‘s summary of the departure of Sarah Huckabee Sanders, that “slightly chunky soccer mom” who […]