The other day I was listening to NPR coverage of what was then the upcoming Pennsylvania special election, and they interviewed someone who said that, really, things were going pretty well under Trump, because the economy was doing better and he was pleased with his tax cut.I like Gary Varvel’s cartoon, but Congress certainly isn’t […]
That iconic opening challenged viewers — and presumably Dr. Zorba’s medical students — a great deal more than anything that followed on “Ben Casey.” I thought of it yesterday as the Stephen Hawking tribute cartoons poured in, mostly because of its combination of simplicity and depth.Which Kevin Siers mastered to a chalk drop. One syndicated cartoonist, seeing […]
I wouldn’t know where to start if Ruben Bolling hadn’t coincidentally snipped this bit from a previous Tom the Dancing Bug to run in his Super-Fun-Pak Comix feature today. Without bothering to research when the original, larger comic parody ran, this piece clearly is from the Trump era because it’s made up of things foolish […]
Every time I feature “Existential Comics,” I end up putting in a disclaimer about whether you have to be a philosophy major to get the joke. So, to keep up that tradition, let me say that you don’t have to have had more than a faint brush with existentialism to find “Existential Werewolves” — of […]
I’ve just finished making reservations to be at this symposium at the University of Minnesota next month, and I’ll cover it here but, if you’re anywhere within range, you’d do well to be there yourself.The occasion, the 30th anniversary of the landmark Hustler v Falwell decision that brought the 1st Amendment into focus for editorial cartoonists, […]
Jeff Danziger comments on the upcoming talks between Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un, and if you have wondered how far off the mark the Trump Amateur Hour can wander, this is a pretty good example, because the State Department has been hemorrhaging unreplaced talent faster than the White House and, while a meeting like […]
Tom the Dancing Bug steps forward to stop me from deleting from my bookmarks an entire category of editorial cartoons. I’ve said before that I am losing patience with “bland restatement,” those altie cartoons in which people simply restate in simple terms the things people in power are really saying.It may be an age thing: I’ve […]
(Red and Rover) (Bliss)Yesterday was a snow day, which is rare for someone who works at home, but we woke up to over a foot of snow and the dog was no more interested in going out than I was. So, after the plow had cleared our driveway, I went out once to run an […]
There are several sinking ship cartoons out there, but I particularly like Tim Eagan’s take because of the captain’s blissful ignorance, accented by the fact that we find, in the second panel, that he is dangling at 90 degrees, which emphasizes his serious disregard of reality.Constant readers will, however, wince in anticipation of yet one […]
The eyes of everyone were on Texas last night, and RJ Matson plays with the big question, which was turnout. While there is some speculation that Ted Cruz could lose his seat in the general election next fall, the primaries were seen more as a general bellwether to indicate how the nation is going as […]