The best cartoons of the day, chosen by editors at ThePrint.
The selected cartoons appeared first in other publications, either in print or online, or on social media, and are credited appropriately.
In her cartoon for the Sunday Star Times, Sharon Murdoch takes a jibe at New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern for her dilemma of not having found a Russian spy to deport as a show of solidarity with UK’s Theresa May. This follows the use of a chemical weapon in the attempted murder of a former Russian intelligence official, and his daughter in Salisbury.
Peter Brookes pokes fun at the bromance between American President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin by casting them in Grant Wood’s classic American Gothic painting following their controversial meeting in Helsinki.
Rod Emmerson | The New Zealand HeraldCartoonist Rod Emmerson shows the historic trophies raised last month, from France’s FIFA World Cup win to Novak Djokovic’s Wimbledon victory after two years. However, in Helsinki, it was Russian President Putin who won the US President Donald Trump as his trophy.
Bob Moran turns the Brexit stalemate into a bone tickler as he portrays British Prime Minister Theresa May and a drunk European Union president Jean-Claude Juncker refusing to budge from their demands in the hopes of the other making a move.
In his cartoon for Dawn, Pirah Mangi shows the slow yet steadfast political growth Benazir Bhutto’s son Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has demonstrated amid the political chaos in Pakistan ahead of the 25 July election. Bhutto is fast gliding past his opponents, while PTI and PML-N workers fight it out on the ground.
Titled Hugplomacy, Alok Nirantar’s cartoon explores the hypocritical side to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s hug marathon with international leaders. After coming to power, Modi embraced leaders like Barack Obama, Shinzo Abe and Trump. But when Congress leader Rahul Gandhi hugged the PM during the no-confidence motion debate in Parliament, BJP dismissed the act as childish.
India made a historic declaration by waving off the goods and services tax on sanitary napkins Saturday and Ankita Sharma shows it as liberation for women as ‘sanity’ finally prevailed.
Sajith Kumar | @sajithkumar
Cartoonist Sajith Kumar mentions the Alwar lynching case as the BJP government looks smug about its victory in Parliament. The government ignored the questions raised by opposition during the no-confidence motion debate.