Tom Tomorrow, an endangered species, on the recent debates.But, y’know, not recent enough. We want the truth and we want it right now, but, if we have to choose, we’ll take “right now.”So the consulate in Benghazi is attacked, and the first report is that a mob got out of control, stormed the place and killed […]
Big Bird as the takeaway from Wednesday’s debate has been a predictable boon for political cartoonists. Facebook Photoshoppers were putting gags up while the debate was still in progress, and the pros weren’t far behind them.Nick Anderson riffs on one element, which is the disparity between the goal of hunting down bin Laden and the promise […]
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 […]
The Big Lie Theory of Government is alive and well. Matt Davies does a nice job of wedding the embarrassing Clint Eastwood appearance with what should be an even more embarrassing speech by VP Candidate Paul Ryan, a presentation so full of non-operative statements that even a Fox News analyst called him out on it: (T)o anyone […]
RJ Matson is a good editorial cartoonist, whose take on the Supreme Court’s Affordable Care Act ruling headlined my post on the topic in June.And, as of Thursday, he’s unemployed. Tom Spurgeon reports that the St. Louis Post Dispatch held a throat-slashing party at the end of the week that included their editorial cartoonist, as well […]
The gay marriage issue has divided editorial cartoonists this week.Not so much between “For” and “Against” as between “Timely” and “Whoops.”After Joe Biden’s remarks Sunday, there were a raft of cartoons criticizing Obama for not also speaking out in support of gay marriage. And then, on Wednesday, just about the time all those cartoons were […]
A departure from format today because of a bit of serendipitous synchronicity (as in the best it is). Two cartoons, not in opposition, not exactly in concert, but worth viewing together and not just in that NPR “on this hand but then again on the other hand” way.Matt Bors has posted this observation …… while […]
Pat Oliphant does a really nice job of making political points with extremely funny artwork. That’s important, not only because it results in memorable and effective commentary, but because many of the cloth-eared grammarians who edit newspapers think that all cartoons are supposed to be funny and won’t choose a political cartoon that doesn’t include […]
I’m currently working on a series for kids about Theodore Roosevelt and conservation, and, as part of that, was going through political cartoons of the era.This two page spread by Puck cartoonist L.M. Glackens ran in that publication in 1906, when William Randolph Hearst was a candidate for governor of New York (click on it […]
Clay Bennett is a longtime favorite of mine, both for his clean style and for his ability to reduce things to the simple concepts a political cartoon must contain, but without oversimplifying a complex issue.Well, I’m not his only fan. Bennett has just won the Ranan Lurie award from the United Nations for this cartoon, […]
Jeff Danziger needs to go on my list of cartoonists who would be here all the time if I didn’t pay attention.But this panel has some eternal truth to it, as well as some new truths and some things we really need to think about for the future but probably won’t.To start with, the Folks […]
I don’t have an iron-clad rule about avoiding political cartoons, as regular readers will know and newcomers can find by scrolling through the recent past. But I’ve been consciously putting them second or third in the daily queue as I collect the three or four potential candidates for CSOTD, for a couple of reasons.One is […]
The blurb in the rail includes “made me think” as one of the criteria for being here, and Jeff Stahler’s cartoon did make me think.I’ve got a rather large bone to pick with him, however, in that, while this is a spectacularly bad time to be in the job market, there is nothing particularly special […]
Matt Wuerker on the inability of the media to focus on anything that matters.The potential candidacy of NJ Governor Chris Christie has brought some new life to the increasingly odd Republican presidential campaign, but the only reason I know who he is, is that I happen to follow a cartoonist or two or three who […]
It was pointed out to me that I’ve featured a lot of political cartoons lately. Well, the blog is about what comics and cartoons have struck me, and I guess I’ve been struck a lot by the political situation lately: The economy, of course, and also the nascent presidential campaign.And in particular the whole thing […]