A New Market For Cartoonists – The Borowitz Report
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Andrew Borowitz’s very popular satire site The Borowitz Report reports on “The War on Cartoonists” these days, both editorial cartoonists…
“Censorship has undermined the opinion pages of newspapers across the US during Trump’s second term. Two weeks after Telnaes resigned, a small newspaper in Pennsylvania outdid the Post in gutlessness. When…the publisher, Dave Cuddihy, announced that he was banning all political cartoons forever.”
and single panel magazine cartoonists:
“In 2026, the news for cartoonists has, improbably, gotten even worse. Last month, Air Mail, a newsletter that had published cartoons for seven years, suddenly stopped buying them. And last week, Nieman Lab revealed that OpenAI’s ChatGPT has been producing counterfeit New Yorker-style cartoons—complete with the unauthorized signatures of real New Yorker cartoonists.”
As a result Borowitz has decided to give cartoonists a new outlet for their talents:
“This existential threat to cartoonists should alarm any fan of that quaint constitutional right called freedom of expression … when I learned that Air Mail was depriving cartoonists of one of their last remaining markets, I decided to start buying cartoons for publication on TBR.
“This shouldn’t be mistaken for some grand altruistic gesture. It’s good business…”
Read the full “The War on Cartoonists” column here.
The new Cartoon of the Week feature began Sept. 23, 2026.
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