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  • Cartoons and Tyrants, History and Current Events D. D. Degg
    In a prelude to World Press Freedom Day yesterday 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 […]
     

Cartoons and Tyrants, History and Current Events

3 May 2026 at 14:39
In a prelude to World Press Freedom Day yesterday 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 […]

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  • CSotD: Sunday et Cetera Mike Peterson
    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, […]
     

CSotD: Sunday et Cetera

3 May 2026 at 11:39
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, […]

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  • Wayback Weekend – Booked, Archived D. D. Degg
    Alan Dunn architectural cartoonist; Brian Fies graphic medicine artist, U of Missouri cartoon archives.Alan Dunn Architectural CartoonistLast year we noted a Gabriele Neri article for Architectural Record about cartoons relevant to that magazine and the profession it spotlights. There was a note mentioning New Yorker cartoonist Alan Dunn. Little did we suspect that Neri was […]
     

Wayback Weekend – Booked, Archived

2 May 2026 at 13:26
Alan Dunn architectural cartoonist; Brian Fies graphic medicine artist, U of Missouri cartoon archives.Alan Dunn Architectural CartoonistLast year we noted a Gabriele Neri article for Architectural Record about cartoons relevant to that magazine and the profession it spotlights. There was a note mentioning New Yorker cartoonist Alan Dunn. Little did we suspect that Neri was […]

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  • CSotD: On Being ‘Tough but Fair’ Mike Peterson
    I was always skeptical of teachers who said, “I’m tough, but fair.” I knew teachers who were tough but fair, but none of them ever said so and they didn’t have to, because we knew it. The ones who proclaimed it were, instead, rigidly harsh and felt “fair” meant having everything go their way.It is […]
     

CSotD: On Being ‘Tough but Fair’

2 May 2026 at 12:08
I was always skeptical of teachers who said, “I’m tough, but fair.” I knew teachers who were tough but fair, but none of them ever said so and they didn’t have to, because we knew it. The ones who proclaimed it were, instead, rigidly harsh and felt “fair” meant having everything go their way.It is […]

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  • CSotD: May Day, For Those Who Celebrate It Mike Peterson
    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 […]
     

CSotD: May Day, For Those Who Celebrate It

1 May 2026 at 12:15
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 […]

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