When news breaks that turns a harmless cartoon into one of bad taste, someone flags it in time. But not this time. Today’s “Broom-Hilda” had passed from memory by the time the slayings occurred.

This cartoon of a Victorian council's first female leader has fallen flat with women's advocates but the Australian Cartoonists Association says it is a depiction of the phrase "a new broom sweeps ...

Many readers encountering today’s “Broom-Hilda” comic strip must have gasped. One of the characters said, “It makes people mad when I talk at movie theaters … especially during action ...