Today I commented to a friend that the GOP is like Frankenstein — it creates monsters. Which inspires me to present this.
Rally ‘Round the Monsters
Category: Cartooning
He is Missed
Confirmed by a Per-jury of Their Peers
How many pregnancies caused by Trump ended in abortion? I bet it’s more than none.
Kooky Cookies
This psychedelic Walt Disney Silly Symphony from 1935 offers an interesting comparison to Munchkin Land in The Wizard of OZ. The Lollipop Guild would fit right in here.
The way éclairs are used is extremely suggestive. The depiction of a black Miss Licorice is unfortunate. Alcoholics and gays also make an appearance in this cartoon.
From MAD to Watergate
In celebration — if that’s the right word — of the 50th anniversary of the Watergate break-in, the Washington Post features eight cartoons, including this Time magazine cover by Jack Davis.
An iconic Davis magazine cover — rendered for Time in April 1973 beneath the headline “Watergate Breaks Wide Open,” and now in the Portrait Gallery’s exhibit — imagines a circle of conspirators ensnared in its tools of taping and surveillance, each finger-pointing at someone else. The art nods to an 1871 cartoon by Thomas Nast, who was skewering the fiscal chicanery of William “Boss” Tweed’s corrupt Tammany Hall political machine.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/comics/2022/06/16/cartoons-watergate-nixon-herblock/
Doggone Nuts!
Another nicely restored classic cartoon from Cartoon Research, featuring some of Jim Tyer’s wild animation. You’ll have to forgive the “Mammy” stereotype.