The Great Cartoon Insight Famine continues, and, with the shutdown (sorry, “partial” shutdown) over, the major issue now is that a bad web site means the entire overhaul of the healthcare system is a complete failure.I believe I flogged the issue sufficiently yesterday, but I thought Jim Morin’s cartoon showed some insight, if not a […]
Sunday seemed like the right day to tackle (heh) the issue of racist names, or at least one in particular.It’s a sort of evergreen issue, so some of these cartoons are not from today or even the past week, which is how editorial cartoons are generally handled here. But none of the arguments are new […]
I finally got rid of my typewriter about five years ago. I’d hauled it on two moves without ever plugging it in and decided it was silly to take it on a third. Which is to say, I’d held onto it for considerably more than a decade without using it. Closer to two.As Wiley notes […]
Some days, it’s a struggle to find something. Other days, it’s a struggle to narrow it all down.I prefer the latter, but I’m not in a mood to narrow it all down, so let’s have a look at this day of cartoon plenty, in no particular order: Kevin Kallaugher’s latest is yet another cartoon about […]
Well, the game is afoot: Edward Snowden is wending his way across the friendly skies in search of a sheltering country. But, as Jack Ohman’s cartoon suggests, it’s a mystery that all these supposedly whiz-bang snoopedy-snoops can’t catch him. I noted earlier that, by proclaiming his guilt, he protected himself from being quietly disappeared. Fair […]
It seems like a good time to note the 10 year anniversary of our invasion of Iraq. These cartoons are from my presentation to high schools, back in those days, and so were often printed directly onto transparencies for overheads, making them quite lo-res. They also were often copied without dates, since they were being used […]
Tom Toles notes the lack of response to what appears, to all scientists except those at the No Longer The Tobacco Institute Research Laboratory, a crisis significantly hastened, if not spawned, by the world’s increasing industrialization and overall modernity.Which is to say, we have met the enemy and he is us, but as long as […]
I like this Tony Auth panel, because it’s more about what happened than it is about spiking the football.The Republicans badly misjudged the country. It wasn’t a landslide, but it was a clear loss and, yeah, they missed the bus, and I don’t think it’s coming back. For the Republican Party, and conservatives in general, […]
Tom Toles, with a retrospective of sorts that ought to scare some sense into those who would rather not vote at all than vote for a candidate with whom they don’t agree on every item, or who doesn’t do exactly everything they hoped he would.Message to the Purists: Someone is going to get elected, whether […]
For a little over a decade, I would go into high schools and spend the day lecturing on political cartoons. I’d begin by talking about the partisan press, how, a century or so ago, each town had two papers — Republican and Democratic — and they would launch totally one-sided, predictable attacks on their opponents, which was […]
I love Tom Toles’ ability to create genuinely funny cartoons with substance, and much of that humor comes from a simple style that allows, for example, this plummeting European to maintain a completely bland expression as he assesses his situation.As the EU struggles to avoid an across-the-board collapse, it begins to seem like the Black […]
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 […]