Today’s Prickly City is a good indicator of how Scott Stantis, one of the more thoughtful of the conservative cartoonists, is taking the Trump presidency.For the less thoughtful on the right, the approach so far seems to be “Oooooh, I hate libtards!” rather than confronting any actual issues.As noted previously, some are simply too lazy to put […]
I find myself with a lot, and yet nothing, to say, so I’m going to send you off to places like the Nib, where 10 cartoonists vent their feelings about the election, not all of which I agree with. I like Luke Howard’s take, I suspect, because he matches my ambivalence: On the one hand, […]
David Horsey gets the prize today for faking me out — I almost didn’t bother reading the captions because I am so sick of lame cartoons in which the kids are, in fact, dressed as the scary candidates.Those cartoons run every two years or, at least, every four, and it’s enough to make you wish […]
The brouhaha over San Diego Clippers owner Donald Sterling took a bad turn for cartoonists yesterday when NBA Commissioner Adam Sterling hit him with a $2.5 million fine (the maximum allowed) and a lifetime ban from the league, meaning that, while they couldn’t actually force him to sell the team, they could forbid him to […]
The impact of sequestration cutbacks on airport operations triggered a response in Congress and that, in turn, triggered a response from cartoonists.Some — particularly in the days between the emergence of the issue and the legislative fix — were content simply to point out the problem, which I suppose was okay, since moving things forward […]
Signe Wilkinson comments on the latest school shootings, in a world where “school shootings” can be classified as “latest.”I like her approach, which avoids the self-important hyperventilation that generally follows these events, as Ruben Bolling pointed out a dozen years ago in the wake of Columbine:By contrast, Wilkinson has been consistent and pragmatic in her […]