I’ve cited this anecdote about Daniel O’Connell, the Liberator, in the past, but it’s been awhile since we’ve found ourselves confronted with quite so many “false facts.” Today we call them “alternative facts” and they have become fundamental to our current reality.The latest bit of alternative reality is, in fact, true: The Reflecting Pool on […]
Anderson offers a contrast that we should not only contemplate now but ready ourselves to deal with if and when the fever breaks. And that had better happen before Big Brother finishes wiping out the parts of history we aren’t supposed to remember.That’s neither a joke nor partisan exaggeration: WASHINGTON (AP) — The Department of […]
A new irregular feature: Etc., where I feature political cartoons that don’t fit into a major topic but that I found interesting or amusing. The risk is that I won’t have much to say beyond “Wow,” and posting cartoons without commentary does not qualify as “fair use.” Not that I’d be alone in doing that, […]
I wasn’t blown away by today’s Pearls, at least when I first came across it. The first cartoon websites I visit each morning are humorous, and I got the gag. I even agree that we’d all be happier if we disconnected and lived in the moment. As the saying goes, “Ignorance is bliss.”But the significance […]
President Donald Trump gives his State of the Union address tonight at 9 pm Eastern, one reason I miss living in Colorado, where news and sports came on at a decent hour. Winslow is right: 57% of Americans responding to a NPR/PBS News/Marist poll rate the State of the Union as poor, with the 43% […]
Last April we reported that Solidarity and AfriForum had filed a complaint with the Press Council South Africa against the Daily Maverick after a Zapiro cartoon was published that suggested that AfriForum and Solidarity were claiming there as a genocide of white farmers in South Africa. The Deputy Ombudsman initially ruled against the paper, but […]
I think I’ve seen just about enough cartoons that play upon the I.C.E./ice coincidence. We’re having an exceptionally tough winter and facing an exceptionally draconian private army. But neither will be resolved by a pun. But here’s an exception to my word-weariness: Wolterink gets excellent mileage out of the two meanings, since the US announced […]
Kallaugher and Horsey on Editorial CartooningTomorrow Kevin KAL Kallaugher and David Horsey chat about the State of the Art and Cartooning the State: We will have a fun and free-wheeling conversation about cartoons, politics, commentary and creativity. We will welcome comments and questions from listeners. Kal talks with two-time Pulitzer winning cartoonist and columnist David […]
Dave Brown offers the most generous take on Dear Leader’s tariff tantrum, in which he takes aim at the big bad world out there in his most America First way, but does more damage to Uncle Sam and his American constituents.It’s unintentional, but there it is: However random and nonsensical the tariffs placed on each […]
There’s not much to add to or analyze in Jennings’ cartoon. Children are living as grotesque skeletons and dying in unconscionable numbers. The obvious, simple solution would be to give them food, but instead they have to die. It’s all rather complicated.The whole world is watching, and, as Pope says, putting together their sternest words, […]
For reasons unexplained I have dozens of cartoonist self-caricatures. Before deleting them thought I’d share ’em. So… Not enough? Hundreds more at…
Two Prize – Herblock and Pulitzer – stories. Mike Rhode at Comics DC brings a few exclusive pictures of the Herblock Prize awards ceremony. At the moment it is the only news I found about the 2025 presentation, which featured winner Marty Two Bulls, Sr. with a video acceptance and Lalo Alcaraz in discussion with […]
The good thing is, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa knew what he was getting into. Or at least Zapiro did, having drawn this cartoon more than a week before yesterday’s shameful public exhibition of lies and attempted bullying.Perhaps, having spent the first 38 years of his life living under apartheid, Ramaphosa was well-adapted to quietly […]
Since Mike brought up Zapiro and one of his cartoons this morning, let’s continue with the cartoonist. The Deputy Ombudsman of South Africa has found against The Daily Maverick for publishing a Zapiro cartoon. From the Press Council regarding Solidarity and AfriForum vs Daily Maverick: This finding is based on a written complaint on behalf […]
Don Jr. and Eric explain the pay-as-you-go presidency, part of a blind trust which means that they control it and Dad has no idea what they’re doing, which indeed sounds like Weekend at Bernie’s.Not quite dead, nor so blind, but, indeed, shilling his cryptocoins and Bibles and golden sneakers (When I get to hebbin gonna […]