If You Don't Buy This Magazine

One of my pleasures is finding The Week in my mail. It's a news readers' digest kind of magazine that still respects and honors editorial cartoons — with both an interior spread of choice cartoons (usually across two pages), and on the cover.

Their cover art stable consists of two cartoonists; this recent cover about Trump's covetous obsession with Greenland should strike Boomers as vaguely familiar:

by Jason Seiler in The Week, Jan. 30, 2026

I'm trusting that Seiler didn't create this with Artificial Intelligence, since I don't detect any of the markers that typify most A.I. cartoons. Photoshop? Yeah, who doesn't use Photoshop any more?

The cartoon was spoiled by ICE shooting actual humans in cold blood shortly after this magazine came out, but I still think it was a good cartoon.

This Week's Sneak Peek

Didn't I just draw about R.G. & G.R. Harris Funeral Homes Inc. v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission last week?

Well, yes.

But David Rowe has already drawn Bolsonaro fiddling while the Amazon burns (and threw in a couple genius touches I hadn't thought of), and I'm already tired of Greenland jokes. 

And I started drawing before Trump tried to sell the idea this morning that he wouldn't benefit financially by having the G7+Russian Empire confab at Mar-a-Lago next year.

Discovering America Before It Was Cool

In Fourteen Hundred Ninety-two

Columbus sailed the ocean blue.

Earlier still, in Nine Ninety-nine

Leif Erikson found the Land of Vine.

And before we even numbered dates,

ᎠᏯᏩᏍᏗ crossed the Bering Straits.

Q Toon: Irish Ayes

Over the weekend, Irish voters overwhelmingly approved granting gay and lesbian couples the same right to marry that heterosexual couples enjoy. Which you already knew, if for no other reason than you read the fake newspaper headline at left.

We cartoonists put these fake newspapers in our cartoons because we can't trust that every reader will have knowledge of the story we are commenting on, or that they will connect the cartoon to it. These newspaper headlines require figuring out some way to compose the cartoon so that it doesn't look out of place to have a newspaper prominently displayed where the reader can read it.

But they do come in handy, because the Irish vote might have been overshadowed by the subsequent vote of the Greenland Parliament in favor of marriage equality. It's so easy to confuse Ireland and Greenland, you know; them both being Atlantic islands and into the color green and so forth.

So, now that I'm quite certain that you have indeed read the headline and located Ireland on a map, here's the cartoon.

Paul Berge Q Syndicate✒May 28, 2015 EditorialCartoonists.com

This year, the New York chapter of the Ancient Order of Hibernians begrudged the LGBT employees of NBC-Universal to march in its St. Patrick's Day parade, if only at the insistence of NBC, which televises the parade. Before then, the AOH forbade any LGBT group from its parade, ever since the hostile reception to them (and then-Mayor David Dinkins marching with them) in 1991.

Greenlander-Americans, so far as I know, have never barred LGBTs from marching in their parades. Ullortuneq is coming up on June 21, and I expect to see a healthy representation of out and proud Greenlanders marching in cities all across these United States.