Somehow, despite reading political cartoons for decades, I've managed miss the work of Tom Stiglich until now. A quick look for an unbiased bio (which doesn't appear to exist) gives me a few facts. He's probably an old Gen Xer, since he finished art school in 1988. He's originally from Philadelphia.
I don't know why he draws so badly, given his background and long history, but maybe that's why I've never seen his work until the Pioneer Press felt compelled to inflict two of his pieces on us yesterday in their weekly political cartoon roundup:
Right-wing cartoons are never funny and they usually make no sense to anyone not in the right-wing bubble. I hadn't even heard about this situation at MIT, but I'm sure it was all over Fox News. And the way Stiglich drew the young woman speaker as an unattractive harridan fits with his simplistic concept of pro-Palestinian as equaling pro-Hamas.
The other cartoon is weirdly out of date. I wonder when Stiglich drew it, and why the PiPress chose to run it now. That aside, it's just really, really dumb. Anyone who watches the Musk video can see the way he moves his arm is not your typical waving at the crowd motion, which I'm sure Booker's arm movement was. I'm not going to go find whatever moment the Booker image is based on (assuming it's based on a real moment). You can't take still images of something like this and compare them: it's just obviously either stupid or intentionally misleading.
I'm going with the latter, given his overall perspective.
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