Political cartoons in the On the Record bar catchup time

I stopped in for a drink with a friend who's never been there before. These are pictures of art that I don't remember seeing before, and at the end, Tim Walz and JD Vance coasters.

The Supreme Court nook

DD Degg memorializes the Washington Post Writers Group (WPWG)

WPWG Comics Division *poof*

D. D. Degg

https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2024/11/10/wpwg-comics-division-poof/

 

As of today the comics division of the Washington Post Writers Group (WPWG) no longer exists. The distribution of the last Fort Knox comic strip for November 10, 2024 effectively shutters the comics and cartoon division of the WPWG that began in 1979...

Other editorial cartoonists on the WaPo's spineless non-endorsement (updated 14x)

Here's my rant from last night if you missed it. I saved the comments until they hit 1,000, if anyone wants to analyze them some day. 

Mike Peterson has a good morning roundup. If you don't read the Daily Cartoonist, you should.

 

CSotD: Darkness at News

Mike Peterson

https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2024/10/26/csotd-darkness-at-news/

Here's some others that Mike didn't have:

Ann addressed her cartoon on her newsletter:

Democracy dies in darkness

Ann Telnaes

Oct 26, 2024

https://anntelnaes.substack.com/p/democracy-dies-in-darkness

Washington Post's Non-Endorsement

In a disingenuous editorial

Liza Donnelly

Oct 26, 2024

https://lizadonnelly.substack.com/p/newspapers-are-crumbling

Bok Bok Bezos

The Washington Post and Los Angeles Times aren't endorsing in this election

Clay Jones

Oct 26, 2024

https://claytoonz.substack.com/p/bok-bok-bezos

A spineless Press caves

The Post, the LA Times and The AZ Daliy Star

David W Fitzsimmons

Oct 26, 2024

https://davidwfitzsimmons.substack.com/p/a-spineless-press-caves

 

"All The President's Men II": The Remake. Directed by Jeff Bezos

Barely a parody, people...

Jack Ohman’s You Betcha!

Oct 28 2024 https://jackohman.substack.com/p/all-the-presidents-men-ii-the-remake      Profiles in Seepage Steve Brodner Oct 27, 2024 https://stevebrodner.substack.com/p/profiles-in-seepage

 

 

Updated - from the Cagle Syndicate-

 

 

2024-10-25 DEMOCRACY DIES IN DARKNESS BY DAVE WHAMOND, CANADA, POLITICALCARTOONS.COM  

 

 

2024-10-26 NO WASHINGTON POST ENDORSEMENT BY BILL DAY, FLORIDAPOLITICS.COM

 

 and more from Cagle (10/28) -

 

  

2024-10-28 WASHINGTON POST NO PRESIDENTIAL ENDORSEMENT BY JIMMY MARGULIES, POLITICALCARTOONS.COM

 

 

2024-10-28 BEZOS AND WASHINGTON POST TURMOIL BY DAVE GRANLUND, POLITICALCARTOONS.COM

 

 

2024-10-28 THE DARKNESS BY ADAM ZYGLIS, THE BUFFALO NEWS, NY

 

 

   2024-10-28 BEZOS KILLS WAPO ENDORSEMENT BY JEFF KOTERBA, PATREON.COM/JEFFREYKOTERBA

 

and more from Cagle (10/29) as reports that 250,000 people or 10% have cancelled their WaPo subscription.

 

2024-10-29 WASHINGTON POST BY JOE HELLER, POLITICALCARTOONS.COM

 

2024-10-29 WASHINGTON POST SUBSCRIPTION CANCELATIONS BY DAVE WHAMOND, CANADA, POLITICALCARTOONS.COM

 

  and from Darrin Bell -

 

You know what else is strange? Major papers that spent years chronicling the existential threat posed by Donald Trump, deciding not to endorse a political candidate. The decisions may be principled stands, as their owners assert, but it’s understandable that readers suspect the papers’ owners would rather not find themselves accidentally falling off balconies a few months from now. That’s a very real prospect, given that the corrupt Republican Supreme Court has given a certain Hitler-aficionado the green light to make good on his threats.

 

  Timelapse video-political cartoon: LA Times & WaPo don't endorse, by cartoonist Darrin Bell
Darrin Bell

 

 

Subscribe to my Substack at www.darrinbell.com and get my new graphic novel "THE TALK" (now in paperback and audiobook too) at www.GetTheTalk.com ...This is a timelapse animation (a process video) of the creation of an editorial cartoon, by Pulitzer Prize winning editorial cartoonist Darrin Bell. Republicans tried to spin the Washington Post and Los Angeles Times refusal to endorse either presidential candidate as a damning loss for Harris.

 

and Jack Ohman as seen on the Daily Cartoonist - and Jack's excellent commentary on the decline of the Post editorial page (updated 10/30)

All the Publisher's Mendacity

Where did all the newspaper presidential endorsements go? Long time passing.

Jack Ohman’s You Betcha!

Oct 29, 2024

https://jackohman.substack.com/p/all-the-publishers-mendacity

 

Rob Rogers from Counterpoint -

“The cowardly decisions by The Los Angeles Times and The Washington Post not to endorse a presidential candidate are the latest examples of how Donald Trump’s threats to punish his enemies are working. The billionaire owners of both newspapers are more worried about their bottom lines than the fate of our democracy. So much for watchdog journalism.”-RR

and another from the Daily Cartoonist -

Mike Smith — KFS

and Cagle syndicate again (10/31) -

2024-10-31 JEFF BEZOS READING NEWSPAPER IN BED BY BART VAN LEEUWEN, POLITICALCARTOONS.COM

 

and then Michael Ramirez finally addresses WaPo spineless non-endorsement in the WaPo on November 1st.

 

Guess which side he comes down on?

You're right! What a shock!

and here's another right-wing one from Counterpoint that's just... what's the word I want? Oh, yes. Stupid. 2 is "a LOT"? Perhaps that's how he counts the likes for his cartoons, or the publication of them...

“Seeing a LOT of big-name newspapers declining to endorse Kamala Harris after having endorsed most of the other Democrat candidates for POTUS for the last eight decades … and seeing Liberals lose their minds over it. I guess not everyone thinks that Conservatives are ‘garbage.’”-MB (Cartoon by Mike Beckom for Counterpoint)

11/1 update 2: The Daily Cartoonist returns twice to the story with new editorial cartoons I haven't caught.

About Those Non-Endorsing Newspapers

D. D. Degg

https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2024/10/31/about-those-non-endorsing-newspapers/

 

CSotD: Prattle Lines Being Drawn

Mike Peterson

https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2024/11/01/csotd-prattle-lines-being-drawn/

 

and the Cagle Syndicate published yet another one:

 

2024-11-01 NO ENDORSEMENT BY NIELS BO BOJESEN, POLITICALCARTOONS.COM

11/03 - cartoons keep coming.

 

 2024-11-03 BEZOS AND TRUMP BY MARIAN KAMENSKY, AUSTRIA