It's Funny Because He's a Grown Man COMPLETELY UNFAMILIAR With a Common Object in Everyday Life!

Scott Stantis, 8/9/13:

Ha ha! Those young people, with their baggy pants and their rap music and their google glasses -- they don't know what a real, dying, money-hemorrhaging newspaper is!

And that's funny, because it means people like Stantis will lose their jobs forever!

Whoa! Huge Slam on Anteaters Out of Nowhere!

Arend van Dam, 8/7/13:

And, apparently, the Dutch make the best racists.

She Had Sex Out of Wedlock and Must Be Punished

David Fitzsimmons, 8/7/13:

Um...single moms are by definition immature and unable to care for their children?

Any other possible explanation here?

We Demand a Barter System Now!

Michael Ramirez, 8/7/13:

Thing That Confuses Me, #1: Ramirez clearly thinks that the GOP has capitulated to Obama, and is going along with his every whim. This does not precisely reflect reality.

Thing That Confuses Me, #2: Apparently, "spending" is a bad thing which we need to stop. If any economists out there know Ramirez, could you give him a quick lesson in how capitalism works?

The Binary of Stiff Upper Lip and Stark Utter Panic

Tim Hartman, 8/6/13:

and Ed Gamble, also 8/6/13:

When a President gets a serious tip about a potential major terrorist attack, the manly thing to do is ignore it, like Bush did.

If it turns out to be true, you can always invade some countries later, and look exceptionally tough while doing so.

Note the Circa 1980 Punk Mohawk on a Kid Born Circa 1990

A.F. Branco, 8/5/13:

All of the unemployed are feckless Millennials -- and they're all completely qualified for those great "skills gap" jobs that are going begging now; they just stay unemployed out of spite!

Pay no attention to the facts and studies by so-called "experts" showing that the big problem is long-term unemployed (i.e., people actively looking for work for tens of weeks) and that older workers have born the worst of the recession and weak recovery.

Nope -- just blame it on those damn kinds, like always!

J'accuse!

Terry Wise, 8/5/13:

A popular Republican from a heavily Democratic state in the Northeast is not nearly reactionary enough for Wise, which means he's a poser, because only the very most ideologically pure are true members of the vanguard Communist Party USA Republicans.

In other words: the circular firing squad that is the modern Republican Party continues. And Wise doesn't even feel the need to attack Christie with any facts -- like the Terror, merely the accusation of ideological deviation is enough.

Beast Master

A.F. Branco, 8/1/13:

Um, so Obama has harnessed the combined power of Democrats and Republicans to forge a single all-powerful government, and only Ted Cruz can stop it from reaching the land of Freedom -- which is marked by a flag of The Will of the People?

I'm impressed -- I don't think there's a single thing in this cartoon that makes sense or bears any resemblance to reality.

An Attack of the Vapors

Bob Gorrell, 7/30/13:

Seriously, a black guy has been President for five years now! What the hell kind of country would allow that!

Incoming!

Steve Kelley, 7/30/13:

The "War on Women" isn't a systematic attack on women's ability to control their own health and sexuality -- with ever-tightening limits on abortion and contraceptive care, slashed funding for health centers that care for women, and paternalistic ideology -- but simply the lecherous attention of "liberated" men, who simply can't control themselves around attractive women.

And that, of course, is why women need to be protected -- handed over from fathers to husbands like the important property they are.

Stars Upon Thars

R.J. Matson, 7/29/13:

If politicians just didn't belong to political parties -- didn't run in elections, stand for specific policies, and were committed to a specific ideological framework -- they'd find it much easier to work together.

Congratulations, Matson! You've just independently discovered the concept of bureaucracy!

Know Your Rights: All Three of 'Em

Terry Wise, 7/29/13:

If you're not exactly as outraged by every single death everywhere in the world, you're a poser.

If You See This Man...

Darryl Barksdale, 7/28/13:

Someone, somewhere, is for sale, and Barksdale is calling him out on it. Pity we don't know who that is.

(I'm of the opinion that it's Chris Christie, mostly because he's my governor. But it could be almost any middle-aged white male politician, which is to say most of them.)

Barksdale could stand a bit of work on his specificity, is what I'm saying.

We Don't Need No Water

Ken Catalino, 7/28/13:

So "spending" -- by the government, we assume, on things like bombers and school lunches and roads and food inspectors -- is a wildfire that destroys things, while the concept of "cuts" is a stream of water?

I would really hate to be Catalino's economics teacher right now -- that's someone who clearly failed at an important job.

The Same Incredible Terror That's Menacing Me Will Strike at You!

Ken Catalino, 7/26/13:

Our current President -- by recent historical standards, a middle-of-the-road Republican like Ford, Nixon or Bush I -- is actually a fiendish alien symbiote who is systematically polluting our precious bodily fluids!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Seriously, Catalino just said that. If anyone out there is his physician, could you check to make sure he's taking his meds?

The Art of Saying "Nice Doggie!"

Pat Oliphant, 7/25/13:

Um...black teen boys are like nasty dogs in a dark alley?

This certainly smells like a cartoon loudly declaring that profiling is just fine, and that those scary Others must be out to get us, because we're scared of them.

Look for the Robber Baron Label

A.F. Branco, 7/24/13:

Remember: the fact that white (mostly Republican) men ran the Big Three automakers into a hole for thirty years, and that highway spending and tax breaks allowed businesses and families (mostly white) to move out of Detroit into outer suburbs had nothing to do with its decline.

Nope, it's all about those uppity poor people wanting to get paid for their work.

Penny Ante

Paul Berge, 7/24/13:

Because nothing says wholesome Christian family values like child soldiers committing genocide.

(Nothing against Berge, who's just reporting here.)

It's Horrible When Other People Can Afford to Buy Things I Want

Milt Priggee, 7/22/13:

Everything was better when those foreign darkies were ignorant and poor.

Also, the US owns "capitalism." So no one else can use it without our permission!

I Know You Are But What Am I?

A.F. Branco, 7/22/13:

Branco is determined to out-right-wing any other cartoonist out there, even if he has to shoehorn a half-dozen unrelated ideas into a stale idea.

Please, he cries, won't some Koch brother bankroll me!

Monsters of the Id Theater Presents

Terry Wise, 7/21/13:

Um, yeah.

Is Wise really saying that a black-dominated city is a slavering monster, in reference to Obama's speech?

Is there any way this cartoon isn't horribly racist?

Changing the Subject at an Awkward Moment

Michael Ramirez, 7/19/13:

There's an epidemic of murders in this country and we need to do something about it immediately!

What? You say the best solution is nationwide registration and control of handguns? Oh, well, never mind then.

Note That "Commie" Is The Worst Insult Branco Can Think Of

A.F. Branco, 7/19/13:

Eric Holder is a dirty Commie because he wants to see an upstanding white man punished for nothing more than stalking and killing a black teenager.

Luckily, we live in a society where that's totally legal!

Oh, No! We Live in a Capitalist Economy!

Mike Smith, 7/19/13:

Magazines are non-profit operations; they have no interest in increasing their circulation and their writers always desire their stories to be read by as few people as possible.

To be blunter: everything a magazine does is to sell copies. A magazine is a business, and their product is copies of the magazine. This is not a difficult concept to grasp.

Smith cartoons for the Las Vegas Sun, which I am morally certain has never run a cover story because it expected to sell more copies based on that story -- no, sir!

Wanna See My Smiling Face

Steve Kelley, 7/18/13:

You've got two choices here today:

1) Magazines are uniquely important in American culture, which is why the approximately sixty zillion hours of Boston Bomber coverage on TV and thousands of pictures of him plastered across newspapers for months are acceptable, but one magazine cover that calls him a "Monster" is horrible.

2) The media have never covered any mass murderers before -- why, the public doesn't even know the names of previous mass killers like Dillinger, Manson, and Bundy, do they?

See also: Michael Ramirez,  Mike Lester, Steve Breen, and others who don't remember RS's long history of looking evil in the eye: