Maybe we’re making too much of this thing, but it’s worth noting that the majority of conservative commentators seem to be either ignoring or mocking Clive Bundy. Granted, Steve Benson is hardly a conservative, but if this the only style of cartooning on the topic that seems to be out there, then ol’ Clive hasn’t […]
Let’s start with this Garrincha cartoon. I’ve said before that I’m more attuned to the story-telling American style of political cartooning rather than the more metaphorical international style, but this is a situation in which the two blend rather seamlessly. Moreover, I like the cartoon for what Gustavo Rodriguez is and what his cartoon isn’t. […]
R Stevens was profiled in Split Sider about his comic Diesel Sweeties and his latest book Bacon Is a Vegetable, Coffee Is a Vitamin TP.You?ve been doing this for years and made thousands of comics. What?s the appeal of collecting some of them into themed books? My work is way too scattered and unplanned to […]
Missed this, but nonetheless very cool. Big Nate creator Lincoln Peirce was on the Today show as the Guinness Book of World Records certified that a panel of Big Nate cartoons drawn by schoolchildren from around the country broke the world record as the largest cartoon strip by a team. The previous record was 3,320 […]
The Daily Beast is reporting that Aaron McGruder’s The Boondocks will be returning to television after a four year hiatus – but the return is without Aaron who has developed another live-action show called Black Jesus.As the world now knows, The Boondocks will be returning for a fourth season, but I will not be returning […]
For a season, and a day, dedicated to rebirth, there sure were plenty of “boy am I old” cartoons today.We’ll ease into this with Between Friends, which is a fairly gentle parent-child-tech gag.(It also, I think, fits today’s topic as a subtle shift in age for Emma. Sandra Bell Lundy periodically nudges her characters forward […]
Let’s start today’s roundup with Jimmy Margulies on the new, revised, please-keep-requiring-them SATs, the makers of which have now decided to drop the college-bound-level vocabulary portion and reset the top score back to 1600, having previously stopped asking kids to show their reasoning powers through analogies.You remember the analogies, right? SATS:high score::Youth Soccer:A. professional careerB. World […]
One of the good things about living in the Upper Valley is that the Center for Cartoon Studies has grown to the point where they are no longer quite as inward-looking as they have been, but are beginning to reach out more often to the community, so that instead of whisking cartoonists in and out […]
The Society of Professional Journalists has announced the winners of this year’s Sigma Delta Chi Awards for excellence in journalism. In the category of editorial cartooning, Jen Sorensen took the win in the category of newspaper circulation over 100,000. Angelo Lopez of the Philippines Today took the prize for newspapers under 100,000.Congratulations to Jen and […]
I’m happy to report that rampant screwballism appears to be loosening its grip. Tim Eagan is not a screwball, and his take on the whole “sagebrush revolution” kerfuffle seems not only funny but sensible. Meanwhile, however, a couple of knee-jerk conservative cartoonists have tried to make something sinister out of the confrontation and they’re not getting […]
Tom the Dancing Bug does a potential “Get off my lawn” cartoon, but it appeals to me for a number of reasons, only one of which is that I wish those damn kids would get off my lawn.I don’t really get Twitter, which seems less like pausing in the grocery store to chat for a […]
Here is a small piece of a longer work by Natalie Nourigat that is at once the saddest and also the most encouraging thing I’ve seen in a very long time. You need to go read the whole thing.(I’ll wait.)I feel very bad about the way we’ve slowly immersed ourselves in a police-state mentality, but […]
Kevin Siers of The Charlotte Observe has been named the winner of this year’s Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning “for his thought provoking cartoons drawn with a sharp wit and bold artistic style.”This year’s finalists include David Horsey of the Los Angeles Times and Pat Bagley of The Salt Lake Tribune. Judges noted David’s “skillful […]
50 years ago yesterday …If you missed yesterday’s posting, you may want to scroll down for the cartoons from April 13, 1914 and 1939. Meanwhile, here’s a selection from 1964. You may recall that this whole nostalgia thing began with my poking around for Civil Rights Act coverage. As it happens, this John Milt Morris cartoon […]
I was looking back at coverage of the Civil Rights Act a half-century ago and, well, got distracted. We’ll get to the “50 Years Ago” part eventually, but first let’s look at what you’d have looked at if you’d sat down with your paper on April 13, 1914 (This will be a good day to […]