stuck up
Nov
7
2018
Democrats captured the House in the 2018 midterms, handing Republicans their first major congressional defeat during the Trump presidency. The result blocked the president's legislative path and invited new oversight. The cartoon portrays Trump as immobilized by that blue-wave outcome.
Oct
15
2018
Jul
21
2018
Alden Hedge Fund as Newspaper-Killing Spider in Pat Bagley's Cartoon
Hedge Fund Spider Traps Newspapers
May
2
2018
Pat Bagley's 2018 political cartoon portrays a giant black spider emblazoned with a red dollar sign and labeled 'Alden Hedge Fund,' sprawling across a dark web that ensnares multiple newspaper entities. Figures with hats, each tagged with names like Denver Post, Boulder Daily Camera, Mercury News, and St. Paul Pioneer Press, dangle helplessly in the web, symbolizing entrapment. The artwork uses media ownership satire to critique hedge fund influence, underscoring newspaper industry decline and journalism crisis. Dark, scribbled lines form the web, enhancing the ominous tone of this editorial illustration on predatory financial practices in media.
Feb
5
2018
Osmani Simanca's 2018 cartoon depicts Donald Trump in a sequence of devolution: starting as a pudgy, naked humanoid with signature hair, holding a tiny club, then growing fur and a tail, eventually becoming a full monkey brandishing a large 'Monroe Doctrine' bat while advancing toward a sign labeled 'Latin America.' The imagery skewers the Trump administration's apparent revival of the Monroe Doctrine, tying into tags like Latin America, Donald Trump, Venezuela, Cuba, Secretary of State, and Rex Tillerson. This satirical take highlights concerns over interventionist policies, rendered in a simple, exaggerated style that amplifies the primal, regressive nature of such diplomacy.
Nov
20
2017
