June 1st, 2022 saw Dave Blazek move his Loose Parts panel from the Washington Post Writers Group to Andrews McMeel Syndication.left: WPWG May 31, 2022 (Tuesday); right: AMS June 1, 2022 (Wednesday)This is the 4th syndicate for Dave Blazek and Loose Parts. Los Angeles Times Syndicate April 20, 1998 – December 23 (24?), 2000 Tribune […]
Last month the news of a new syndicate for editorial cartoons broke.Counterpoint founder Nick Anderson said the new operation would go active June 1, 2022. And so it has as a Jack Ohman cartoon with a Sacramento Bee/ Counterpoint Media credit appeared today.© Sacramento Bee/Jack OhmanClay Bennett, Lisa Benson, Tim Campbell, Jeff Danziger, and Jack […]
From the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists:Are you a young cartoonist [ages 18-25] who draws commentary on social topics? Do you know a young cartoonist doing work with a political tinge? The window is now open to enter the 2022 John Locher Memorial Award for editorial cartoons & comics. DEADLINE IS FRIDAY, JULY 1. Single […]
The Chicago Tribune ran a piece by Rick Kogan over Memorial Day weekend remembering the Chicago Tribune comics of the Medill/Patterson/McCormick era. above: Chicago Tribune Sunday funnies 1898 Patterson helped create and nourish, among many other strips, “The Gumps,” “Gasoline Alley,” “Moon Mullins” and “Terry and the Pirates.” He was energetically hands-on, offering advice, coaching […]
Information — that is, real information — is beginning to emerge from Uvalde, though perhaps too late to ever displace the rumors. But one thing that has been clear almost from the moment of the murders is that, as Ann Telnaes puts it, mass shootings are part of our culture.The outrageous part is not that […]