Comic strips turning political in WaPo print edition

The Post may have lost (aka gotten rid of) most of its political cartoonists, but the daily strips are starting to make up for that.

Wiley Miller's Non Sequitur mocked Doge and Musk this week:

 

Scott Stantis' Prickly City has often been more political than most other strips. This week, both strips could have been political cartoons instead:

 

Barney and Clyde got there several times last week, as they have been doing since January:

Prickly City continues its Mohammad drawing storyline in today's Post

Prickly City continues its Mohammad drawing storyline in today's Post.

Matt Wuerker on drawing Obama on NPR

For Cartoonists Who Cover Obama: Four More Ears

Cornish, Audie and Robert Siegel with Alison MacAdam

National Public Radio's All Things Considered (January 18, 2013)

http://www.npr.org/blogs/itsallpolitics/2013/01/18/169726644/for-cartoonists-who-cover-obama-four-more-ears

http://pd.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/atc/2013/01/20130118_atc_19.mp3

http://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?storyId=169726644

Dave Horsey in DC too

In addition to all the comic strip characters coming to DC, Dave Horsey is here as well. The ex-presidential candidates from Scott Stantis' Prickly City just arrived as well.

Comics Riffs checks in with Stantis and Luckovich

Cavna continues his roll by getting comments on post-Bush political cartooning from Mike Luckovich and Scott Stantis - "Cartoonists Bemoan the Bush Buh-Bye (Part 2)," By Michael Cavna, January 15, 2009.

Comic Riffs fan anecdotes from Stantis and Peirce

See "Fave Fan Anecdotes: 'The Buckets' & 'Big Nate'."

Stantis offends people too

Yesterday's letter to the editor - "A Cartoon That Fell Flat," by Richard E. Hurst, Washington Post Saturday, May 31, 2008; Page A11.