Laurie Triefeldt began her newspaper career with The Windsor Star in her native Canada in 1988. She spent a few years there before moving to the U.S. where she briefly worked for the Newspaper Enterprise Association before moving on to the Camden N.J. Courier-Post in 1993. Triefeldt was a newspaper graphic artist during this time […]
Cartooning for Peace celebrated its 20th anniversary yesterday in Paris. A special recognition was also given to Safaa Odah who recently arrived in France after two years of trying to leave Gaza. The organization came from a vision of then UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan and cartoonist Plantu in the wake of the violence and outrage […]
National Comic Book Day honors the art, artists, and stories of comic books. The South Florida Reporter provides a timeline of American comic books (some of the “facts” are a bit iffy) in an article titled “People Who Collect Comic Books Are Known As A Pannapictagraphist.” “One of the earliest known comics printed was The […]
The banishment of the press has ended, thanks to some solidarity among the press corps and a judge who had apparently read the Constitution. However, as anticipated here Wednesday, the boycott cost Dear Leader a lot of coverage of the arrival of Xi Jinping.We can assume this bothered Trump, since he had taken the unprecedented […]
Kevin Kallagher (KAL) drew political cartoons for The Baltimore Sun for 30 years (1988-2006 & 2012-2025). In 2025 the new owner of the newspaper fired KAL as he possessed diametrically opposite political views the new owner wished to promote and KAL would not ease up on drawing cartoons mocking the Trump administration.A year after that […]
There’s a good chance that when CK Gormally walks into a room of cartoonists, CK is the smartest one. Cartoonists, stereotypically, are the ones in the back of the classroom doodling—not in front teaching. CK entered their cartoonist era while in grad school pursuing a Ph.D. in Biology Education & Plant Biology. They are currently […]
Luann’s Weird Dream, Len Brown remembered, Graeme MacKay and The Rex Babin Award, The Baltimore Sun continues its generative AI obscenity, former McClatchy cartoonist Joel Pett on Newspaper Deathwatch, Big Nate Romance Comics, a P.C. Vey eulogy. The following is an eclectic collection of a few articles that can be considered updates to items posted […]
As they say, timing is everything. They usually say it about comedy, but it’s obviously a factor in political cartooning and here’s a pair of cartoons that had everything except good timing, and, in the case of Megan Herbert’s piece, it’s a very rare case in which the time difference between Australia and the United […]
Featuring the comics of Milt Gross, Denys Wortman, Gus Arriola, Walt McDougall, and Charles M. Schulz partnered with Len Wein and Walt Simonson. Milt Gross in Action Steve Smith at his Panels & Prose discusses the action comic strips of Milt Gross. “One of the basic joys of comics is every artist inventing their own […]
The Phantom creator Lee Falk told readers a little bit of what happened before that first panel above and a lot, 66 years worth, of what happened after the second panel above, but nothing of the events between those two panels. That lapse of history bothered the current writer of The Phantom comic strip. Says […]
It is the elephant, not the president, who hesitates to dive into an empty pool. They’ve followed him faithfully since his first inauguration, but Republicans have been scrubbing their websites of mentions of Dear Leader and several of them found places they needed to be instead of the half-empty halls of Trumpapalooza. They’re not eager […]
BigGo Finances has reported that the webcomic hosting site Tapas is shuttering: “South Korea’s Kakao Entertainment is terminating service for Tapas, the North American webtoon platform it acquired for approximately ₩1.1 trillion (approximately $809.6 million). The ambitious 2021 investment, intended as a beachhead for the North American market, is effectively being written off just five […]
Dutch cartoonist Siegfried Woldhek took home this year’s Inktspotprijs (Inktspot Prize). The award goes to the best political cartoon during the parliamentary year.The judges remarks for Woldhek’s cartoon says, “with an impressive drawing style, the draughtsman combines the grimness and humor in an aesthetically insane image that no longer disappears from your retina.”Honorable mentions this […]
The recent news of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists awards and their commingling with the Society of Illustrators (SoI) has prompted The Daily Cartoonist to list most of the rest of that Society’s 2026 awards, adding to the group’s 2026 Hall of Fame honors that were reported earlier this year. The 2026 Hamilton King […]
I wasn’t going to do any Trump vs. the Press cartoons today, having pretty well exhausted the topic for a while, but Telnaes introduces a new character that cracks me up.The term “work wife” came up with George W and Condoleezza Rice, and I have no doubt that W was faithful to his wife and […]