There has never been a dull moment for editorial cartoonists during the Trump Presidency. Now as the end nears some are reviewing The Follies of 45.The New York Daily News and Bill Bramhall pick some memorable highlights.© The Daily News & Bill BramhallLet’s also note that The Daily News and Bill were honored by The […]
Fame came to cartoonist Bill Brewer early, winning a national contest for college cartoonists judged by Groucho Marx, Steve Allen, and Al Capp.Bill then began a career as a commercial cartoonist but, like all cartoonists sixty years ago, the dream was to match fame with fortune as a syndicated comic strip creator. His 1961 attempt […]
Pearls Before Swine (AMS) sets the mood for today’s risky choice, which is to have a few laughs while we wait for Joe and Kamala to take the wheel.It’s a risk because there’s nothing new to be said about Trump’s endgame and I don’t want to wallow in it this morning, but if political cartoonists […]
Continuing a hundred year tradition the El Dorado (Ark.) News -Times has announced a comic strip contest for area teens and preteens.The News-Times is excited to announce our first-ever Comic Strip Contest! Open to Union County students in fifth through 12th grade, three winners will be selected from our submissions to be featured in our […]
I suppose it would be hopelessly partisan to quote Jerry Ford and say that our long national nightmare is over, but Alan Moir (Sydney Morning Herald) cracked me up with this suggestion of the changes coming at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, and the crybaby in the window wasn’t necessary but sure was a nice touch. It fits […]
Being “a bear of very little brain” I didn’t catch what Macanudo was about today. So I dug up the title panel not shown on the Comics Kingdom site which gave me the hint I needed.© Liniers I needed no hint to get the latest Flash Forward, instantly recognizing the source that gave Peter Poplaski the […]
Steve Sack (Star Tribune) offers a rueful chuckle in the wake of the Capitol riots and Twitter’s banning of Donald Trump.It’s not the first time Dear Leader has failed to appropriately acknowledge tragedy, having cheerfully tossed paper towels to people devastated by a hurricane.His genuine inability to process other people’s emotions is part of who […]
The Schulz Museum has supplied the illustrations and guide for you to publish Peanuts comic books.Added is the template for the little ones (or you) to create their own mini-comics.The Charles M. Schulz Peanuts Mini Comic page. While we’ve got Peanuts on our mind…Nat Gertler shows that they are editing Schulz. Eagle-eyed AAUGH Blog reader David […]
Seattle Times interviews their editorial cartoonist David Horsey about the past four years of politics in the United States and new book “Drawing Apart: Political Cartoons from a Polarized America.” I think the biggest problem is that if you’re talking about Donald Trump, my job is to sort of exaggerate reality and create satire that […]
Stop! You’re both right!CSotD is two – two – two sites in one!And, at this fraught moment, there are enough humorous political cartoons that we can do a whole posting of nothing but. We’ll start things off with a bit of pure stand-up schtick from Drew Sheneman (AMS), who draws for the Star-Ledger in Newark and […]
David Cohen feels honored to serve the citizens of Asheville, North Carolina as the editorial cartoonist for local issues. Today he took a few inches to thank them for their forbearance. In the early 80s I submitted some work to the then editorial page editor, Rick Gunter. He took a few, and for about a […]
Artwork originally intended to be the cover of a Tintin comic book (album) has sold for 3.2 Euros ($3,872,000.00).From Artnet: A picture by the Belgian cartoonist Hergé (1907–1983) has set a new record for the most expensive work of comic book art, selling for €3.2 million ($3.8 million) on January 14 at an auction at Artcurial in Paris. The […]
Maybe. If things settle down, I’d like to go back to an irregular schedule of politics some days and comedy others, rather than staking out Friday for a break in the tension.So I guess we’ll see. While we wait, Candorville (WPWG) offers social commentary that verges on the political, and if one party had a corner […]
In an early “First and Last” entry we mentioned an attempted Li’l Abner revival by Norm Hochberg and Steve Stiles. In 1997 Steve told the details of this 1990 adventure in his career to a fanzine. © Steve Stiles © Capp EnterprisesFANAC presents Idea #10 with Steve Stiles version of the Li’l Abner revival. Advertising in […]
Jerry Summers, a lifelong Chattanoogan and historian of the city, remembers the editorial cartoonists of The Chattanooga Times. Chattanooga over the past 59 years has been fortunate to have at least three editorial cartoonists who have entertained the public with humor, sarcasm, ridicule and suggestions of often ignored recommendations on politics, sports and other subjects […]