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:

Post ombudsman follows up on censoring Non Sequitur

Readers insist on equal treatment for 'offensive' cartoons
By Andy Alexander
Washington Post's Omblog October 12, 2010

Hopes and dreams dashed in New Orleans

Our Man Thompson lost the National Cartoonist Society award to Jim Meddick and Monty. A cabal of DC-area lawyers are already planning on taking this to the Supreme Court for a ruling on a recount of hanging chads, I hear.

In the meantime, we congratulate Meddick - his strip runs in the Washington Times. Al Jaffee took home the deserved Reuben award, and Wiley's strip today makes sense. All the winners were posted by Alan Gardner on his Daily Cartoonist site.

And here's the Non Sequiter fold-in linked to above, folded and rotated 180 degrees, for those who couldn't quite picture it: