Huck and Bramhall both cite the similarity of Neville Chamberlain’s futile attempt to end World War II before it had gone that far and Donald Trump’s announcement of the purported end of his adventure in Iran. Huck gets extra credit for connecting it to Orwell, given that Chamberlain felt he was telling the truth while […]

Last week two Jewish men were stabbed in a North London street. On taking the attacker down police took action according to that Guardian article: An officer uses Pava spray to try to subdue him before the suspect is shot with a Taser. The suspect falls to the ground and officers kick him in the […]

We’ve seen a plethora of Timmy-in-the-Well cartoons, despite the fact that, while Timmy had a whole lot of scrapes, that wasn’t one of them. However, the jokes have replaced the reality to the point where Jon Provost’s biography is titled Timmy’s in the Well. It’s like that old saying, “It ain’t what you don’t know […]

The Australian Press Council (APC) has ruled that a Cathy Wilcox cartoon published in The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald in January of this year showing Australian leaders being directed by Benjamin Netanyahu overstepped the bounds of the Council’s standards. From Natasha Lee at Media Week: The Australian Press Council has found The Age […]

I had been looking forward to the 250th anniversary of our Declaration of Independence, but it seems to be falling flat, and Anderson pinpoints the issue. It doesn’t seem to be widely known, but there are two very different groups set up for the commemoration: America250 is a non-partisan group set up by Congress to […]

A years-long, physically-enforced sabbatical ended for Steve Sack last year when he returned to cartooning. Rob Tornoe at Editor & Publisher tells of Steve Sack’s Comeback. Journalists are used to overcoming adversity, but what if you’re a Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist and you suddenly can no longer hold a pencil? That’s the situation Steve Sack faced […]

For whatever reason this list from the Freedom Forum of seven months ago popped up in my feed recently. The headline says “most famous” while the body of the article merely says “famous political cartoons.”Scott A Leadingham puts his list in chronological order and it is hard to argue with his first and last choices. […]

Yesterday, in a prelude to World Press Freedom Day, Anthony Feinstein for The Globe and Mail checked in on the history of political cartooning holding those in power to account from the beginning to now, sometimes risking the cartoonists’ freedom and lives. When political cartoonists challenge the world’s most powerful people. (Or here.) The strongman […]

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, […]

Today is May Day, which is International Workers Day, aka Labour Day, marking the Haymarket Square Riots, which began May 1, 1886, and culminated in the explosion four days later.Whamond notes the calls this year for a general strike, but I don’t think America is a general-striking sort of country. I recall that the Mai-Juin […]

The Utah Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) has shown their respect for Salt Lake Tribune editorial cartoonist Pat Bagley with their Lifetime Achievement Award.The Utah Headliners awards ceremony took place June 11, 2026. While Pat is in Portugal he did send his appreciation through an emissary: Last Thursday the Utah SPJ (Soc. […]

Golding channels Groening with this commentary on the upcoming 250th celebrations. I have been hesitant to comment because, while I’m astonished that anybody watches some of the braindead programming on TV, apparently they do.It seems elitist to mock people for not having your own refined sense of style, but that’s another chance to say, “Seems,” […]