Jeffrey Koterba hits the nail on the head. Any grandfather who is primarily worried about what Social Security will be like in 50 or 60 years simply isn’t paying attention.I do wish the headlines on that paper weren’t solely about the economy, because that’s not all of it, though our grandkids will have to figure […]
Jen Sorensen isn’t the first cartoonist to work with the concept that the president has gone too far for too little, or that the Republicans are being not simply stubborn but purposefully obstructive. But I like the blandness of this Slowpoke, the way the matter-of-fact depictions clash with the absurd demands they illustrate.There are aspects […]
If you’re not already following Prickly City, this might be a good time to start. The election of Kevin, the Lost Bunny of the Apocalypse, to the US Senate has produced some good laughs and the prospect of his making a run for the presidency is promising.For a number of years, the answer to “Aren’t […]
No kidding.Darrin Bell recently did some right-to-the-edge deadline work on the death of bin Laden, and he’s done it again in today’s Candorville. But, even getting his lead time down to a minimum, he had to time the strip to hit when the laughter was over, but before the coverage let up.One can only hope […]
Daryl Cagle posts a brief item reflecting on this Frank Beard classic cartoon, in light of Arnold Schwartzenegger’s current scandalous problems. With Schwarzenegger’s political career already in the rearview mirror, I’m not sure the parallel holds, but the general tone of political commentary has certainly reverted to the partisan age in which Beard reigned.During the […]
In the wake of nationwide municipal elections, South Africa’s Jeremy “Jerm” Nell provides a reminder that not everyone lives in a place where a smooth-running election is traditional.Which means life is getting harder for the nation’s political cartoonists. President Jacob Zuma’s threatened lawsuit against cartoonist Zapiro for defamation seems to have drifted off into the […]
Editorial cartoonists love to take a familiar symbol and adapt it to express an opinion. Weeping Statues of Liberty have become a snide inside joke about lazy, sentimental dreck, after the scores of them drawn in the wake of 9/11. Justice peeking under blindfold is another graphic cliche, while some other cartoonists don’t seem entirely […]
It’s no longer news that Mike Keefe of the Denver Post has won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning, but, in the days that followed, the portfolios of the runners-up, Matt Davies and Joel Pett, have also come to light.So here’s a chance to see 60 pretty doggone good cartoons by simply clicking on […]
As North Africa and the Middle East surge with calls for political reform, and as the election problems in Cote d’Ivoire burst into deadly violence, French cartoonist Bernard Bouton offers this panel at Cartoon Movement, a relatively new site that gathers political cartoon commentary from a variety of global cartoonists.International cartoons tend to be a […]
Oliver Schopf, cartoonist for the Standard of Vienna, entitles this beautiful strip “Fata Morgana,” and the reflections just before the Promised Land do indeed suggest a mirage.Which does a very nice job of setting us up with a promise and then dashing our hopes, bringing about a truly brilliant level of empathy with those […]
Tom Toles has won the Herblock Prize for editorial cartooning, which is particularly sweet given that he took over Herb Block’s spot at the Washington Post after that legendary cartoonist’s death.The Post is also home to one of the better comics columns and Michael Cavna’s write-up on this is the definitive report, and, best of […]
Some symbols are so standard that they can lose impact, but Tony Auth makes excellent use of both the Statue of Liberty and the Klan regalia in this cartoon. I’m not as blown away by his labels — I think it was an unnecessary complication to tie in the GOP and the Tea Party Movement […]