Category: International cartoons

June political cartoons on Obama, Helen Thomas, soccer and oil spill.

hagen cartoon on nuclear disarmament from gocomics.com

It’s a beautiful new week for cartoons! This roundup for the LA Times is for cartoons published the second week of June, 2010.
Since I’m editor here, I shan’t go into my personal  stuff – like my car accident, dealing with 2 insurance companies, aftereffects of the accident, a new problem in the car, which wouldn’t [...]

Ink spill cartoons for the LA Times for May, 2010.

nate beeler  on incumbents from politicalcartoons.com

I had a rough week, so sorry about that. Could this be why I couldn’t find any funny cartoons for the third week of May?! Maybe! I did find some clever ones, however, and clever is a close cousin to funny.
Of course, the PB oil spill continues to be the biggest story around. In one [...]

Haiti, this is the first time I ever thought about you.

Gary Markstein from gocomics.com

But now I’ll never forget you. The story and images coming from Haiti after the earthquake were so shocking  and grievous that it didn’t even occur to me to do a cartoon about it. I felt that tragedies like  this couldn’t be summed up in an image or drawing. More importantly, that cartoonists would be [...]

Making raw meat into Obama’s War Team.

When Presidents decide war is a good idea, what ARE they thinking?

One cartoon, two versions, about a shocking event in 2009 – President Obama deciding to continue the war. Wow.
I missed the 60 Minutes interview the LA Times is talking about here. (Is that show still on the air?)
Discussing in strikingly personal terms his order to escalate the war in Afghanistan, President Obama said Sunday that [...]

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