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BergeToons
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Editorial cartoonist for Q Syndicate on LGBTQ+ issues; blogger on cartooning history and editorial cartoons in general; non-attorney spokesman; just a guy, you know?
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Miss Columbia in 18th and 19th Century #cartoons — part one of this week’s Graphical #History Tour
Hail, Columbia...
Today's Graphical History Tour was inspired by a reader who was curious about the cartoon figure of Miss (sometimes Lady) Columbia. "Americ...
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January 24, 2026 at 3:26 PM
Let’s just say that Mr Art o’ the Deal wants to negotiate a trade for #Greenland. What is he offering in exchange? Territory? Cash?
In what universe does he have 67 votes in the Senate to ratify THAT treaty?
January 19, 2026 at 10:18 PM
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C’mon, you can’t expect Uncle Sam to get over his crippling shyness all at once.
#editorialcartoon #history #coolidge #court #TheHague #UncleSam
Uncle Samicus Curiae Mundi
The Graphical History Tour returns to January of 1926, and a moment when it appeared that Uncle Sam was ready to break out of his isolationi...
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January 17, 2026 at 1:24 PM
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This Week’s Graphical #History Tour leafs through my #editorialcartoons from 10, 20, 30, and 40 Januaries ago…
January ’Sixes
This week's Graphical History Tour opens on a somber note, as we come to January, 1986, and one of those moments where anybody alive them re...
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January 10, 2026 at 1:01 PM
Wow-- I've got a threepeat (or a three-for-all, or a throuple feature?) in this month's www.qsaltlake.com (pages 22 and 9)
January 5, 2026 at 9:44 PM
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It’s not too late to ring in 1926 with HT Webster, JT Alley, OP Williams, Leslie Rogers, Gustavo Bronstrup, and more, in today’s Graphical #History Tour:

#editorialcartoons #newyear #Coolidge #race #Mississippi #Peru
...In with the Old
In keeping with the turn to a fresh calendar this week, Our Graphical History Tour moves on to a New Year: 1926 "The Cut-in Dance" by Fred G...
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January 3, 2026 at 12:58 PM
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Join Smith, Fitzpatrick, Low, Wright, Conrad, Sanders, and others on a Graphical #History Tour of depravity:

#editorialcartoons #Nuremberg #Vietnam #Iraq #Afghanistan
War Crimes Edition
With self-styled Secretary of War Pete HIC!seth's Leave No Survivors rules of engagement in the present regime's gratuitous War in the Carib...
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December 6, 2025 at 12:34 PM
In memory of Tom Stoppard, here I am in -- what may or may not be -- the title role of St. Olaf's 1978 production of "The Real Inspector Hound." With Kit Carson, Tom Angland, Dona Werner, Carl DeSanti, Julia Reinertsen, Karen Gudknecht, Matt Haas, and Stephen Bergen
November 29, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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Were in the giblets! Plenty of leftover turkey toons from 1925:
Got the Kit As Well As the Kaboodle
Today's Graphical History Tour serves up some leftover turkey from Thanksgiving Day, 1925. "Your Uncle Sam Is Good at This" by Dorman H. Smi...
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November 29, 2025 at 12:51 PM
“The thing we have to be careful of — and I always caution myself on this, and I ran into this trouble with Trump — is we cannot mistake absurdity for lack of danger. Because it takes people with no shame to do shameful things.” —Jon Stewart
November 22, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Peace in their time— with #editorialcartoons by Raemaekers, Jordaan, Johnson, Kirby, Rogers, and more. bergetoons.blogspot.com/2025/11/awak...
Awakening the Spirit of Locarno
Our Graphical History Tour, as is so often its wont (where there’s a will, there’s a wont), journeys back a century ago to check up on inter...
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November 22, 2025 at 1:42 PM