Jun
18
2025
On June 18 2025 the Salt Lake Tribune published a Pat Bagley cartoon showing masked ICE agents confronting a suited man who demands they prove their affiliation before they tackle him to the ground.
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Apr
11
2025
Alexandra Bowman's cartoon captures the stock market turmoil under Trump policies, showing caricatures of Trump, Elon Musk, and JD Vance gleefully riding a rocket down a crashing graph line marked with IRAs, stocks, 401ks, and pension funds. The NYSE sign declares 'You Must Be This Rich to Ride,' piled with money bags, satirizing how tariffs and Republican strategies favor the wealthy while everyday investments and retirement savings take a dive over an extremely short time period. The 'WHEEE!' shout adds dry humor to the volatile Wall Street scene, poking at MAGA's high-risk economic ride.
Apr
7
2025
Dick Wright's cartoon captures the irony of reciprocal tariffs with a massive foot marked 'excessive foreign tariffs' descending on a caricatured Trump, who grimaces while clutching a metallic object. The red label 'Reciprocal TARIFFS' floats nearby, emphasizing the backlash from unfair trade policies. Trade deficits loom large as the foot represents international retaliation, potentially sparking a stock market downturn. In a tariff driven economy, the image satirizes how such measures invite excessive foreign tariffs, risking recession. The composition underscores the self-defeating nature of aggressive trade stances, with Trump's strained expression highlighting the pressure on domestic markets. This piece fits into ongoing debates on global trade imbalances.
Feb
20
2025
This political cartoon depicts a bespectacled man in a red shirt, mouth agape, holding a paper strip amid desk clutter including a lamp, computer screen, and scattered documents. He exclaims in a speech bubble: 'Honey, Since He Has All Our Personal Financial Data... I'm Going To Let Musk File Our Taxes!' The scene captures satirical essence on themes like Elon Musk influence, personal financial data privacy, tax filing absurdity, billionaire data access, humorous political commentary, and tech mogul satire. Signed by artist Daryl Cagle in 2023, the illustration uses bold lines and colors to emphasize the man's exasperated expression and chaotic workspace, poking fun at modern data dilemmas without depicting Musk himself.
Dec
19
2024
Peter Kuper delivers a sharp political cartoon titled 'Identified Flying Objects,' flipping the UFO script by showcasing mundane sky travelers: a figure suspended upside down on a zip line, a kite with a grin and tiny arms, and a baseball soaring toward a catcher's mitt marked 'NY.' This piece skewers the drone craze and conspiracy theories swirling around recent aerial sightings, reminding viewers that not every dot in the sky signals alien invasion or government plots. With dry humor, it grounds wild speculations in everyday reality, using simple panels to puncture overblown fears. Tags like UFO sightings, drone craze, conspiracy theories, political cartoon, Peter Kuper, and aerial mysteries keep it relevant in today's paranoia-fueled news cycle.
Nov
30
2024
The cartoon shows Trump inside a circular wall labeled 'TARIFFS,' declaring he built the wall, with a figure marked 'CONSUMERS' puzzled that it's supposed to keep people out. Tags like trump, tariffs, threats, Mexico, Canada, China, trade, wall, prisoner, consumers underscore the irony. The image critiques how tariffs meant to protect against foreign threats from Mexico, Canada, and China end up trapping domestic consumers like prisoners. This visual metaphor draws on Trump's famous wall promise, flipping it to show trade policies harming those inside. The dry humor lies in the reversal, where the wall imprisons rather than excludes, commenting on economic fallout.
May
26
2023
John Darkow draws a straightforward scene for Memorial Day: a gravestone labeled 'FALLEN' with a cross on top, a tiny American flag planted at its base, and a yellow dog curled up nearby on the grass, eyes closed in what looks like quiet rest. Trees frame the image, adding a peaceful outdoor setting. The tags thanks, sacrifice, Memorial Day, loyalty, remembering, honor, fallen, tribute, puppy dog, and decoration day all fit this simple tribute. No big metaphors here, just a dog and a stone reminding folks of those who didn't come back. Cartoonists know these quiet ones hit hard, especially around holidays when editors want something poignant without the punchline. Darkow keeps it clean, no clutter, letting the image speak to loyalty and loss.
Feb
13
2023
Rivers draws a colossal UFO dominating the sky above a cityscape, its underside detailed with mechanical textures and a central depression, while the top features antenna-laden structures. The caption "They want to know what happened to their weather balloons..." flips the script on recent events involving NORAD, weather balloons, spying, UFO, aliens, UAP, interception, shoot downs, USAF, national defense, and the Chinese spy balloon. Cartoonists love these timely absurdities, where real-world tensions over aerial intrusions get a humorous extraterrestrial twist. The image captures that dry irony, with the alien craft's imposing presence contrasting the mundane city below, poking fun at official explanations and public paranoia. It's a classic setup for editorial commentary on surveillance and overreactions.
Aug
4
2022
Jeff Koterba's cartoon shows a massive, angry dragon emblazoned with 'China' hovering threateningly over a chaotic roller coaster track. Below, a wide-eyed figure resembling Biden, topped with a stars-and-stripes hat, grips a cart labeled 'China Policy' as it dives steeply downward. The image captures the ups and downs of US foreign relations, with loops and drops symbolizing unpredictable diplomacy. Tags like Taiwan, Pelosi, and White House underscore the context of recent events, while the dragon represents Xi Jinping's influence. This straightforward satire nails the thrill-ride nature of Biden's approach, blending humor with pointed commentary on international tensions.
