(Clay Jones)(Patrick Chappatte)I wasn’t sure what order to put this pair in, since they’re both ludicrous and neither of them made me laugh but they both got a grim chuckle, which isn’t the same thing.Jones mocks Putin more directly, but it’s hard to say which cartoonist exaggerates the reality more, with Chappatte getting a little […]
Punchbooks has posted this cartoon from April 16, 1919, in which British Prime Minister David Lloyd George cheerfully presents the Paris Peace Agreement, citing the 1895 Punch cartoon which had turned an old joke into a permanent part of the culture:Parts of the agreement that ended the First World War were excellent, but it wasn’t […]
Here’s a snippet of a longer piece by Ann Telnaes, contrasting the sacrifices Americans made in WWII with the ones certain Americans refuse to make today. Click that link and see the rest. And here’s a reminder that she cut her teeth in the animation business, and also that she has little patience with fools. She […]
Boondocks creator Aaron McGruder is the co-writer to a new film coming out this January financed by George Lucas about the Tuskegee Airmen of World War II. The movie is entitled “Red Tails” and is due out in January.Mr. Hemingway said that Mr. Lucas, who served as executive producer on the film, was a “great […]