Trumped Art

Sometimes the distinction seems blurred between the two PBS series, American Masters and American Experience. It has come to light that the recent Masters installment about Art Spiegelman was censored to remove a mention of Trump that associated him with fascism.

https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2025/05/21/pbs-edits-anti-trump-section-out-of-spiegelman-documentary/

Giving in to Trump, especially pre-emptively, is pointless. Doing that will get you nothing. Harvard University is refusing to go along, but it has the financial resources to resist his authoritarian edicts. Everybody else will have to hang on until he’s out of office. Which will be four years from now, if we’re still a democracy by then.

To Hellinger and Back

Following my introduction to comic books with Superman and Batman, Daredevil was my first step into the decidedly different world of the Marvel Comics Group.

Daredevil #19, 1966

The gritty tone of Daredevil: Born Again on Disney+ brought to mind Mark Hellinger, a New York street reporter turned columnist, who became an influential writer and producer of tough guy movies. Right now I’m watching Hellinger’s The Roaring Twenties, a quintessential Warner Brothers picture.

The movie is available here on Tubi.

https://tubitv.com/movies/100019809/the-roaring-twenties

Cancer Twins

© Scott Adams

As I explained in January, I had a “cancer twin,” not involving my twin sister, but someone with a connection to our eldest sister.

A Cancer Story

Yesterday, we learned that ex-president Joe Biden has metastasized prostate cancer. Today, we hear that Dilbert’s Scott Adams is Biden’s cancer twin.

https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2025/05/19/scott-adams-announces-terminal-prostate-cancer-diagnosis/