My Missing Donald Trump Cartoon
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Bashar Assad Paints Syria
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Best Political Cartoons of the Week
Every Friday, we collect the best political cartoons of the week and stuff them into one big, glorious slideshow.
So just relax and catch up on a week’s worth of news with our Best Cartoons of the Week slideshow.
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Scott Walker the Champ
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Walker Wins, Labor Loses
In a hotly-contested recall election, Wisconsin Republican Governor Scott Walker easily prevailed over his democratic opponent, Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett, 53 percent to 46 percent. Walker’s popularity may have been on the decline, but according to polling numbers, he benefited greatly from the fact that many Wisconsin voters didn’t think the premise of last night’s recall was legitimate.
Here what some of our cartoonists think about Walker’s victory…
Mets fans are upset at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and their cartoonist, R.J. Matson (who I syndicate nationally in our Cagle Cartoons package) for labeling the first no-hitter in Mets history with an asterisk.
Saturday’s Post-Dispatch led with Mets pitcher Johan Santana on the front page of its sports section, but was quick to point out a missed call on an apparent double hit by former Met Carlos Beltran. The headline with an asterisk read:
“NO-HITTER*
Santana throws gem with help of missed call.”
Once the bristling objections of the Daily News reached Matson, he went to the drawing board to sum up his thoughts about those whiny Mets fans who can’t seem to take a joke.
“I lived and worked in New York City for 20 years before coming to St. Louis and I did a lot of freelance illustrations for the Daily News,” Matson told me via e-mail. “During that time I got to know the great [Daily News sports cartoonist] Bill Gallo, and I can’t imagine he would have ever wasted ink whining about an asterisk.”
The editors of the Post-Dispatch landed a jab of their own in an editorial that appeared in today’s paper:
We’re used to these things. The late Bob Forsch pitched a no-hitter* for the Cardinals in 1978 that got its asterisk thanks to a controversial official scorer’s call by the Post-Dispatch’s Neal Russo. Five years later Mr. Forsch pitched a clean no-hitter, thus giving this one Cardinals’ pitcher twice as many no-hitters as all the Mets in history.
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Queen Elizabeth Diamond Jubilee cartoons
God save the Queen! The eyes of the world are on England today as Queen Elizabeth begins the fourth day of celebrations marking her 60 years on the throne.
As an American, it’s weird to watch all the pomp and circumstance being devoted to members of a monarchy. Maybe that’s why not many U.S. cartoonists have drawn about The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee. Here are a handful of cartoons drawn about Elizabeth and her heir apparent, Prince Charles.
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Cartoons about the Nation's Jobless
The big news today is May’s rotten jobs report, which shows a paltry 69,000 new jobs added and an unemployment rate that has inched up to 8.2 percent. Even more scary is corporate America continues to be able to make more money with about the same labor force, causing stock prices to soar but doing little for the growing number of unemployed workers looking for a job.
Here are six hard-hitting cartoons about the extended unemployment problem the U.S. faces. Anyone have a solution?
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Best Political Cartoons of the Week
Every Friday, we collect the best political cartoons of the week and stuff them into one big, glorious slideshow.
So just relax and catch up on a week’s worth of news with our Best Cartoons of the Week slideshow.
