Wonkette

By the Comics Curmudgeon
In the wake of her defeat in North Carolina, and her win in Indiana that wasn’t winny enough for most people’s tastes, Hillary Clinton now heads a campaign haunted by the lingering stench of death. The question is, has her nose been so damaged by snorting the metaphorical cocaine of white working class approbation that she can’t smell it? Check out America’s cartoonists’ take on the death march, after the jump. MORE »

By the Comics Curmudgeon
Americans, we know you’re bitter! But if you read this site you’re probably a member of the chauffeured liberal elite, so I’m guessing you’re not really clinging to religion or guns. No, you’re doing those hillbillies one better: you’re actually clinging desperately to your own bitterness! More good reasons to seethe, after the jump. MORE »

By the Comics Curmudgeon
Are you tired of Pennsylvania primary news, now that it’s over? Ha ha, just kidding, obviously you were tired of it weeks and weeks before it even happened. Nevertheless, we feel that the following cartoons about America’s favorite “Keystone State” will help bring a sense of closure to this dark period in our lives, and get you ready for the next stage, which will involve wishing you never, ever heard the word “Indiana.” MORE »

By the Comics Curmudgeon

You may faithfully tune in daily to America’s favorite filthy-minded political blog, but I’m betting that you actually have very little idea about what’s going on in the so-called “news,” am I right? Sure, you could listen to the bloviation on broadcast TV or the high-pitched shrieking on cable, but that will kill your soul by degrees. Wouldn’t it be great if you could get a quick recap of the week’s important stories … in cartoon form? If you said “yes,” then today is your lucky day, my friend. MORE »

Americans! Do you feel that your politics do not supply you with adequate amounts of disturbing images? Do this and this not satisfy you in this regard? Are you some sort of masochistic sicko? Well, your political cartoonists are working to satisfy you. After the jump, what our politicians would look like to someone who’s just consumed some horrifying mixture of peyote and benzene. MORE »

Is drawing a political cartoon really so difficult? Only if you care about the results! This week in Cartoon Violence, we offer some tips on coming up with ideas for political cartoons as quickly as possible. Let’s take an over-labeled journey to an ordinary American Hell packed with cowboys and klansmen and Angelina Jolie’s lips. MORE »

Each week, The Comics Curmudgeon helps explain Today’s Cartoons. Republicans! All hail your new president, John Walnuts McCain! You and the rest of us will presumably be seeing a lot of his rheumy, liver-spotted mug on the teevee and the newspapers and, if you have the ill fortune to live in a “swing state,” possibly in horrifying person. If you’re like most decent, sensible people, you’ve ignored politics completely for the entire duration of the campaign so far and thus have no idea what this clown looks like. How, then, are to you distinguish him from any run-of-the-mill insane old man yammering nonsense? The cartooning community is here to help! MORE »

Each week, The Comics Curmudgeon helps explain Today’s Cartoons. Most political discourse is a bunch of blah blah blah talky talky jaw jaw crappy crap. Political cartoons have the unique ability to short-circuit all that, with their purely visual representation of important world and national events (assuming they don’t get out of control with labeling everything). But what if political cartoonists used the power of visual images … for evil? MORE »

Each week, the Comics Curmudgeon helps explain Today’s Cartoons.

Oh boy oh boy oh boy! With a mere 97 months or whatever until the election, the negative attacks are beginning in earnest! For instance, you may have heard that Obama is a dirty plagiarist, and that McCain has sexy sex with sexy lobbyists, and that Hillary eats Christian babies! That’s all true, but how can you tell when the negative stories you read about the candidates are actually totally false bogus lies? Fortunately, we here at Cartoon Violence are here to separate the truth from the fiction — at least, when the fiction is in political cartoon form. MORE »

Each week, the Comics Curmudgeon helps explain Today’s Cartoons.

Political cartoonists’ jobs are a lot like yours. Some days they get to work full of vim and vigor and inspiration and promise for the future, and some days, they … don’t. But even when nothing that exciting or thrilling comes to mind for our cross-hatching classes, there’s still a deadline rapidly approaching, and a top editor lurking just out in the hall muttering about outsourcing to Russia, so they’ve got to come up with something. This week, Cartoon Violence offers the aspiring cartoonist a primer on churning out acceptable filler when the clock is ticking. MORE »