The third annual Galway Cartoon Festival kicks off tomorrow. Cartoonists slated to attend include Martyn Turner, Maria “Twisted Doodles” Boyle and Joe Boske.From their site: The Galway Cartoon Festival is an international celebration of cartoons, hosted in Ireland’s cultural mecca on the Wild Atlantic Way. The festival includes main exhibitions, and live drawing sessions. The Galway […]
I made the mistake of reading Facebook before I got started today, and it made Tom Toles’ cartoon strike home even more than it might otherwise have.I’ve long since learned that there is no benefit in starting the day by taking other people’s bad trips, and Facebook was awash in them.Some are fairly sophisticated:Ivanka Trump […]
So what’s a freelancer to do when a gig dries up?Tom Richmond says you suck it up and look for new clients, like always. How do YOU keep yourself occupied for 7 hours while running a marathon?Liza Donnelly draws what she sees. What was the first comic strip robot?Steve Carper, who literally wrote the book on robots, […]
Michael Jantze’s crowdfunded book “The Norm 4.0” has hit the streets after raising more than $16,000 on the crowdfunding site Indiegogo.If you didn’t contribute to the campaign but still would like to order the book you can go to Jantze’s site: http://jantze.com.From the site:
Edison Lee satirizes our fascination with polls, but, silly as the gag is, he doesn’t exaggerate a great deal, which is what makes it work.Watching the polls is like watching the stock market, the difference being that stock prices are based on actual trades while the polls are subject to things like sample size and […]
Scott Adams, promoting his new Loserthink book, appeared on Fox and Friends Tuesday morning (Nov. 5) and discussed President Trump’s use of Twitter, a social media platform that Scott is also familiar with.Fox News reports: After a New York Times analysis explained how President Trump’s Twitter account reshaped the presidency, Scott Adams weighed in on Tuesday, […]
Mike Rhode walks into a bar … and is pleased to discover new Matt Wuerker caricatures.
Editorial cartoonist Coila Davis has passed away.Coila Ann Davis (nee Brown) April 28, 1947 – November 4, 2019 Coila freelanced for the Rockford (Illinois) Register Star.From the Register Star obituary:Coila Davis, who over decades crafted dozens of quirky editorial cartoons for the Register Star, died Monday after a short illness. “I published well over 100 of […]
Rob Rogers offers this play upon the question Ronald Reagan famously posed in 1980 to help him defeat Jimmy Carter: “Are you better off today than you were four years ago?”It was a great question, because it has more to do with mood than with reality.Few people were going to actually go back and crunch […]
Nieman Lab reports:It was a “happy surprise,” Fraser Nelson said, when The Salt Lake Tribune received a letter from the IRS on Friday giving the 148-year-old news outlet nonprofit 501(c)(3) status — no questions asked. A final verdict on whether the Tribune could become the first legacy newspaper in the U.S. to go fully nonprofit […]
Original October 29, 2019 item:Daniel Cameron, Republican candidate for Kentucky Attorney General, posted about a Lexington Herald-Leader cartoon by Joel Pett on his twitter feed:Which led the Florida-based Biz Pac Review political news site (“breaking news and analysis unfiltered by the liberal bias that has eroded the media’s credibility”) to take up the cause:A white […]
CQ Roll Call cartoonist Robert “RJ” Matson has won the National Press Foundation’s Clifford K. and James T. Berryman Award for Editorial Cartoons.The NPF judges said: “Matson’s cartoons combine visual clarity and instant impact. His drawing is fresh, clean and beautifully composed. Matson’s dry satire helps break down complicated issues and zeroes in on his […]
Robb McAllister noted in a comment here earlier today that the 1974 Jules Feiffer book FEIFFER ON NIXON is featured on Mike Lynch’s blog. Mike Lynch notes that after nearly fifty years, the times they aren’t really a’changin’.In a bit of synchronicity the New Orleans Times-Picayune has a feature story about Jules today.His age has […]
(Tom Toles)(Clay Jones)We’ll start out with our Juxtaposition of the Day, taking on Zuckerberg’s Theory, which is that you have to take the money because you can’t figure out whether the source is legitimate or not.Which is a substantial part of the freedom that sites like Facebook enjoy: The theory is that they are simply […]
Political cartoons are just the coolest. You get to make fun of people in power in a funny way, plus you get get big ups for your art if you do it right. Even people who don’t read the news might check out your comic. Who wouldn’t want that job? But the gig is also […]