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

Greetings and buenas dias, Wonketteers! This week, we peek once again at the political cartoons that arrive at Cartoon Violence Headquarters via international couriers from the vast, blighted wasteland we call “the non-America part of the world.” What makes these kooky foreigners tick? What comes into their swarthy little heads when they decide to
scrawl out non-American cartoons using berry-juice ink on tree bark or whatever it is they use over there? If this batch of the cartoons are any indication, they sure love ex-Vice President Al Gore. Or at least we think so — some of them aren’t even in English! But there’s a general tone of Nobel Prize-winning smugness that you’ll get in full effect after the jump. (Fun fact: Did you know that the Nobel Prizes are handed out by foreigners?) MORE »