You can still find them online so political cartoons aren’t yet extinct. But they are doomed.A century ago newspapers employed more than 2000 full-time editorial cartoonists. Today there are fewer than 25. In the United States, political cartooning as we know it is dead. If you draw editorial cartoons for a living and you have […]
Brewster Rockit being set in the distant future, today’s got a chuckle, granted a mordant, dark, very bad chuckle.Well, with, as Gary Varvel notes, editorial cartooning in a state of crisis, we could all use a chuckle.But the people in the newsroom don’t get it, and that’s part of the problem: They’re not business people, […]
Internationally acclaimed cartoonist Guillermo Mordillo has passed away.Guillermo Mordillo Menéndez August 4, 1932 – June 30, 2019 Sources close to the family have reported the death.The news has spread worldwide, unfortunately, at this moment, I am not finding a report in English and Google Translate is not working for me right now. Here is a brief […]
In a burst of ebullient laughter, editorial cartoonist Nathan Archer confesses he always wanted to be Benny the Cab from “Roger Rabbit.” Today, he likens himself more to Disney’s Goofy.Archer got his start making editorial cartoons for the Tallahassee Democrat in 2016. His day begins with scanning headlines and looking for intersections between news stories […]
Between Friends gets a laugh because it’s an interesting twist on Parkinson’s Law that “work expands to fill the time allotted for its completion.”Parkinson’s Law itself was a joke because, of course, everything conforms to opportunity, which, in this case, means that, because women carry purses, the number of things they “have to” carry is […]
above: the June 29, 2019 Vindicator headline (via Newseum)Just days after celebrating its sesquicentennial The Vindicator of Youngstown, Ohio announced that it will cease publication at the end of August 2019.Betty H. Brown Jagnow, Publisher and Mark A. Brown, General Manager notified readers: On June 25, 2019, The Vindicator turned 150 years old – a […]
From Micheal de Adder via Twitter and Facebook:The highs and lows of cartooning. Today I was just let go from all newspapers in New Brunswick.Michael de Adder was born, raised, and educated in New Brunswick province and was a regular presence in its newspapers. Brunswick News Inc., which owns the Saint John Telegraph-Journal, the Moncton […]
One of the news stories getting attention from cartoonists this week has been the race for the Democratic nomination for president, and I’m giving Jeff Stahler honors not only for pointing out the actual stakes but for, I think, reflecting the opinion of thoughtful voters.It’s easy, even for relatively progressive cartoonists, to slip into Will […]
A message from Matt Bors about The Nib:I have some important news about the future of The Nib and I wanted you to know first. After three and a half years, First Look Media has decided to no longer fund The Nib at the end of July and me and my team will be let […]
June 28, 1944
This month, The New York Times fired its two cartoonists, Patrick Chappatte and Heng Kim Song, who drew for the international edition. This wasn’t a cost-cutting measure. I believe it was a response to the outrage The Times received in April after the international editions printed an anti-Semitic cartoon of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu […]
So say we all.But if the week has been jammed with political fodder, it also featured some less fraught humor. Which is not to say that a joke can’t make you think. I won’t go so far as to say “the best ones do,” because I like the silly ones.Still, this Rubes contains plenty of truth, […]
It was the secret to Popeye’s super-human strength – but leading athletes look likely to be banned from following his lead. Nearly a century after the creation of the cartoon sailor, and his love of spinach, scientists have realised he might have been on to something. Researchers at the Free University of Berlin have found […]
In 2013 cartoonist KC Green, as part of his Gunshow comic strip, created what became known as This Is Fine Dog. Slowly but surely the first two panels of the strip went viral. It wasn’t a massive viral hit and wasn’t associated with anything particularly repugnant. He made a little money off an Adult Swim […]
From a strictly artistic point of view, the father-and-daughter image has been done enough.From a political point of view, it can’t be, and Tom Toles offers an effective, if somewhat didactic, variation.But he’s right: They were killed by heartless, feckless bureaucracy.They had gone to a port of entry to apply for amnesty as the law […]