Posted on: February 10, 2019

“Personally, I don’t think there should be a line.”Because who is going to decide what should or shouldn’t?Voice of America highlights editorial cartoonist Ann Telnaes in a 2½ minute video.      

Tank McNamara takes on a large issue in sports, which has to do with integrity and idealism and hypocrisy.There was a time when gambling and sports were kept at arms’ length, not only with Pete Rose’s well known ban from baseball for gambling, but also the suspensions in 1963 of NFL stars Paul Hornung and […]

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel has made some changes to its Sunday edition.Today, I’m happy to report, we’re answering requests from subscribers to stop jumping stories backward from the last pages of two Sunday sections. Over the years, we’d dealt with some press and cost issues by combining sections in a way that irritated many readers. […]

Author, Illustrator and cartoonist Tomi Ungerer has passed away.Jean-Thomas (Tomi) Ungerer November 28, 1931 – February 9, 2019* *Ungerer died sometime during the night of Friday February 8 to Saturday February 9.In 1956, he traveled to America, hitting New York in 1956 with $65 in his pocket and many drawings whereupon Ursula Nordstrom, a publisher […]

Chan Lowe points out what we’ve been seeing on Facebook, which is that what people were warned about six months ago or more is happening now.The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act was passed in 2017 and so this is the first year it impacts your taxes.There was always a suspicion — big surprise — that […]

Back in the day it wasn’t unusual for cartoonists to do specialty drawings for individual newspapers that carried their comics, whether for promotion or as a thank you or an anniversary celebration. Below are Milton Caniff (1984) and Chester Gould (1963) samples. It’s good to see the tradition hasn’t completely gone away.Recently John Rose did one […]

 Usually when Stephan Pastis causes tears to roll it’s from laughing too hard. But occasionally Stephan gets serious in his Pearls Before Swine comic strip.Sometimes he gets profound.  Sometimes Stephan gets really intense. Michael Cavna, at the Washington Post, took note that a late 2018 Pearls Sunday strip about Stephan’s dog dying tugged at his readers […]

“Reducing our comics section was not our best decision”As you may recall the Boston Globe created a bit of a hullabaloo when it dropped nearly half of its comic strips and a couple of puzzles. Forced to see the error of their way, they promised “to restore some of them.”Their early January note said their […]

Willie is not unlike Ralph Kramden, in that he is a fool in the classic sense and thus, no matter how ridiculous his antics, you can’t help identifying with him.And the classic fool often speaks truth, as in today’s Willie & Ethel, because much of what we know about the CIA, we know from Tom […]

The Prince Edward Island Guardian has signed on to present the editorial cartooning works of Michael de Adder and Bruce MacKinnon beginning February 7, 2019.The Guardian is adding two of Canada’s top cartoonists and their opinionated snapshots, from lighthearted to biting offerings, to its editorial pages. Beginning today, Michael de Adder and Bruce MacKinnon will […]

The state of the union, first of all, is relative, and, just in time, Kal Kallaugher has provided the cover illustration for Freedom House’s state of world freedom report.They feel World Freedom is in decline, but I like how Kal gets Dear Leader off the hook — he’s not adding to the problem. He’s simply […]

 San Francisco police released a new sketch Wednesday [February 6, 2019] showing what a serial killer who targeted gay men in the 1970s could look like now in hopes of getting a break in the cold case.The killer was dubbed the ‘Doodler’ after he told a person who later became a victim and survived that […]

 Cartoonist and teacher Jim Earle has passed away.James Hubert (Jim) Earle May 2, 1932 – February 4, 2019After completing his architectural design degree, Earle began a 38-year career as a professor (and later department head) in the Department of Engineering Design, now Civil Engineering, during which time he simultaneously pursued a master’s in industrial education […]

 Wisconsin State Journal editorial cartoonist Phil Hands drew cartoons live during President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address.The WSJ presents the gallery.    

Keith Knight of “K Chronicles,” “(th)ink)” and “The Knight Life” has a show based on his life as a cartoonist in the pilot phase at Hulu. Today, The Hollywood Reporter revealed some casting news:Workaholics star Blake Anderson has signed on to the project, The Hollywood Reporter has learned. He will play a longtime friend of Morris’ character in Woke, inspired […]