Cueing the Cartoonists
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In the queue: Biplob Chakroborty, Asher Perlman, Anna Haifisch, Jack Ohman, Alex Hallatt, and Colleen Doran.
Before the memories fade too much The Daily Star gives us a review of Biplob Chakroborty‘s cartoons and caricatures of the 2026 World Cup.
As billions around the world followed the drama of the 2026 FIFA World Cup, the tournament unfolded as far more than a month-long football spectacle. It became a story of sporting triumph, political theatre, commercial excess and unwavering fan passion, all captured through a series of vivid illustrations.
From a few days ago is this 15 minute WGN Radio interview with Asher Perlman.
Asher Perlman, Comedian, Writer, and Cartoonist, joins John Williams to talk about his career being a writer for the Late Show with Stephen Colbert, what it was like working at the show after they knew it was going to be going off the air, how he creates his cartoons, how the comedy landscape has been changing, the excitement over Jimothy, the viral raccoon from Seattle, and his appearance this Sunday at Lincoln Lodge. He’ll also be the guest this Friday at HitchCocktails, the improvised murder mystery show!
Emma Garland for Vice interviews cartoonist Anna Haifisch about the “thrilling, maddening, mind-numbing, anxiety-inducing, and rewarding experience” of an artist.
Beginning its life as a monthly VICE strip under the watch of former Comics Editor, Nick Gazin, The Artist is now returning to print in a new omnibus edition courtesy of Breakdown Press, collecting both the original 2016 graphic novel and its 2019 follow-up, The Circle of Life, along with additional strips.
I read all of these Franco-Belgian albums, like Asterix, Tintin, The Smurfs, Lucky Luke, whatever the local library had in stock. The best thing about them was there were so many! It made me happy to see that there were still 12 issues lying next to my bed, and I hoped for a longer fever so I could get through them all.
The Artist: Portfolio Edition will be published by Breakdown Press on August 3. Pre-order it here.
Back to audio with a half hour Jack Ohman radio interview as hosted by Bill Buchanan.
Three years ago McClatchy, which owns the Bee, fired Ohman and the company’s two other editorial cartoonists, saying it didn’t want to run daily editorial cartoons anymore. Ohman, then 62, joined the San Francisco Chronicle part-time as a columnist and cartoonist, and a larger recovery followed when he launched You Betcha!(link is external), a Substack home in 2024 for his cartoons and columns. He got advice from Dunning and others — Dunning, of course, launched his own Substack after the Davis Enterprise cut him loose two years ago, and quickly surpassed the salary he’d lost.
Other topics today: How Ohman works; developing a meta sense of San Francisco from regular meetings with Willie Brown; fishing; becoming a political columnist; and his project, currently idle, to write a graphic personal memoir of the Apollo 11 moon landing 57 years ago this month.
Plus awards, newspapers and venture capitalists, scrambling for making a living, disappearing ed-op pages, +.
I started playing around with Midjourney, an AI-powered image generator in 2022 (not knowing at the time that our copyrighted work had been used to train it). It was like using a sophisticated stock image in my work (and now stock images are full of AI-generated images). It was a novelty that quickly wore off, as the images it generated weren’t mine.
I wrote the first Cartooning in the Age of AI newsletter in June of 2024.
Alex Hallatt looks back on Over Two Years of Cartooning in the Age of AI.
Almost everything on my Patreon is behind a paywall. Almost everything on my Substack is not behind a paywall.
My Patreon does most of the financing of my work, which includes producing roughly 200 blog posts a year, and some of that is comic art. As it brings in the most money, it gets priority. All posts go to Patreon first.
Almost all posts on Substack were on my Patreon a year or more before they showed up on Substack. I edit them and update them before reposting. Sometimes just a few tweaks, usually no more than a few paragraphs.
So why have a Substack and a Patreon?
Colleen Doran explains What is the Difference Between my Patreon and My Substack?
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