Stop digging

David Fitzsimmons with an editorial cartoon about Arizona's debt.  Has he seen Kansas.

Tracking Santa

Remember the NSA scandal from last year?  Good thing that's all over and done with, huh.

Cuban cigar

Here's an editorial cartoon by Adam Zyglis about the shift in US - Cuba relations that nicely incorporates the silhouette of Cuba.



This one by Graeme MacKay is a bit less subtle


And I'm sorry, but this one by Bill Day is kinda lazy and pointless:

Not again, actually... or at least not today (probably?)

There hasn't been another mass shooting.  This is merely a collection of map-related editorial cartoons about gun violence.

Steve Benson

Jack Ohman

Steve Breen

Steve Benson

Secession cartoon round up

There have, of course, been some editorial cartoons about Scottish secession.  here's a few.  Send in more!

Patrick Chappatte

Patrick Chappatte

Rainer Hachfeld

Pat Bagley Pulitzer?

Regular guest poster Amanda has provided this example of Pat Bagley's work which was featured in an article about how he's a finalist for this year's Pulitzer prize in editorial cartooning

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Editorials

A couple more map-based editorials

Nate Beeler

Martin Kozlowski

Borderline

Bill Mahar has presented an immigration-themed satire of Dr. Suess's iconic "Oh, The Places You'll Go":


Immigration issues lend themselves rather well to map-themed political cartoons:

Steve Breen

California featured

California this time from Amanda:

Quebec

Amanda gave us a whole collections of Quebec-themed maps-in-comics:

Illinois featured

Another set from Amanda, this time about Illinois:

Chicago Tribune cartoonist Scott Stantis provides a visual accompaniment to his paper’s March 30 editorial, which notes Illinois’ decline in many key measurements of a state’s overall well-being

Accompanying gerrymandering article

Accompanying article

Osher Map Library

Frequent guest Amanda provided us with this collection of USA-map-themed political cartoons from the Osher Map Library at the Smith Center for Cartographic Education at the Univeristy of Southern Maine:




“Anywhere, Everywhere, Any Time, All The Time” --- A 1999 Herblock Cartoon, copyright by The Herb Block Foundation. This cartoon was originally published in The Washington Post (4 November 1999), accompanying an article by Eleanor Holmes Norton.



"Reagan $3 Trillion Debt, Bush No New Taxes" --- A 1999 Herblock Cartoon, copyright by The Herb Block Foundation. Originally published January 31st 1990.


Christophe Vorlet. Untitled. The Washington Post (11 December 1994), accompanying the article by Theodre K. Rabb, “Whose History? Where Critics of the New Standards Flunk Out.”


Christophe Vorlet. Muni Bonds. WSJ.com (8 June 2012). Accompanied an article by Jason Zweig entitled How Long Will the Tax Break On Municipal Bonds Last?


Christophe Vorlet. Biased Media. Published in the Los Angeles Times (12 February 2006). Accompanied an article by Robert C.J. Parry entitled The war you didn't see.



Christophe Vorlet. The Great Recession. 2008.


Christophe Vorlet. Bombing Iran. Published in The Progressive (http://www.progressive.org). October 2009. Accompanied an article by Matthew Rothschild entitled Bush's Iran War Plans.


Christophe Vorlet. Healthcare. Published in The Progressive accompanying an article entitled Fix the Prescriptions.


Christophe Vorlet. Untitled. Published in The Chronicle of Higher Education (12 March 1999). Accompanied an article by Allen E. Goodman entitled America Is Devaluing International Exchanges for Students and Scholars.


Christophe Vorlet. Hegemony. Published in The Chronicle Review (15 February 2008). Accompanied an article by Karen J. Winkler entitled The End of American Hegemony?


Christophe Vorlet. Macroeconomics. Published in The Boston Globe (12 June 2009). Accompanied an article by Sunsa Dudley and Jeff Rosen entitled Watch for hidden taxes.

A lesson in Comic Cartography

Amanda also sent in this article from Fine Books Magazine about Comic Cartography

“The plumb pudding in danger.” In 1805 English cartoonist James Gillray lampooned Napoleon (right) and British Prime Minister William Pitt. CREDIT: LIBRARY OF CONGRESS, LC-USZC4-8791.

“The hungry customer.” Canada (left) offers Great Britain a breakfast of hot cereal while Uncle Sam’s smaller serving is politely refused. CREDIT: AUTHOR’S COLLECTION.

“The Rhodes colossus.” As the founder of the De Beers diamond mines, Cecil Rhoades was a great supporter of the British Empire. When he announced plans to build a railway and telegraph line across Africa from Cairo to Cape Town, Punch magazine portrayed him as the great Rhodes colossus. The original colossus guarded the Greek harbor of Rhodes in the 2nd century BC, and at 30 metres, is thought to have been the tallest structure of the ancient world. CREDIT: PUNCH, 10 DECEMBER, 1892.

“I repeat, we see no signs of intelligent life.” In a world gone mad with nuclear weapons that are capable of destroying the world several times over, cartoonists Roy Careless asks how we could ever possibly consider ourselves to be an intelligent form of life. CREDIT: NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF CANADA, C-141801.

In this broadside from 1876, Uncle Sam and his family feed the world using their new Uncle Sam wood stove by Abendroth Brothers. From the red, white and blue fabrics, to the Declaration of Independence on the wall, the image is a celebration of America’s centennial. CREDIT: LIBRARY OF CONGRESS.

“Heal.” Duncan Macpherson would like us to think that President Jimmy Carter (dressed like a country preacher) has some rather unusual methods for improving the world’s problems. The caricature was inspired by the announcement in May 1977 of a new foreign policy for the U.S. CREDIT: LIBRARY AND ARCHIVES CANADA, C-112581.

“The French Invasion, or John Bull, bombarding the Bum-boats.” Gillary’s 1793 caricature has the British Isles, in the form of King George III, blasting a fleet of bumboats into the face of France. At the time, there was some concern that revolutionary France might challenge Britain’s sovereignty. Bumboats were small vessels that ferried supplies to ships moored offshore and their reference by Gillray was obviously meant to underline the British monarch’s contemptuous reaction to the situation. CREDIT: BRITISH MUSEUM.