A great presidential caricature — the word “caricature” is derived from the Latin word that means to load or charge, as in load a gun or charge a battery — isn’t a matter of capturing a likeness. Harnessing the power of satire and humor, it cements an enduring avatar for the individual while they’re in […]
Based on the posts of an X account that bears the name of Dutch cartoonist Bart van Leeuwen, a profile picture of his face and short professional bio, one would think the Amsterdam-based artist is a staunch supporter of China and fierce critic of the United States. In one post, the account blasts what it […]
Dana Summers (Tribune) shows what happens when you only watch Fox News but not, for instance, when they carry the debate between Trump and Harris, in which she explained her position on Ukraine, as she has several other times. To which I would add that, if she has repeated her stump speech often enough that […]
Continuing our roundup of items from Friday with The Return of Jimmy Johnson; FurBabies, FDR, and Fala; L.A.Times’ op-comic by Teresa Wong; Travels with Hilary B. Price; The Wizard of Goldberg Machines; Jules Feiffer takes us to other dimensions; Jack Chick tracts re-engineered; Sandra Bell-Lundy sets the girls free; last chances for Smercomics 2024 and […]
Editorial cartoonist Henry Payne, who has faced criticism for a cartoon featuring U.S. Representative Rashida Tlaib that implied a connection to Hezbollah, has replied by now linking her to former Dearborn mayor Orville Hubbard. From Deadline Detroit: Detroit News columnist Henry Payne responds to sharp criticism about his cartoon in the National Review showing U.S. […]
A bunch of funny stuff, today and in the past several days, and well-timed given the level of not-funny stuff we’ve all been dealing with. My definition of funny has less to do with pies in the face than with things that make you laugh because you can relate to them. (My sympathies to those […]
Thursday The Washington Post revealed a major renovation to their daily comics page. Comics DC reveals to the rest of the nation that starting Monday, September 23, 2024 the daily Washington Post comics will be in color. Decades after most major newspapers made the switch and 76 years after The St. Louis Post-Dispatch proclaimed itself […]
Israel’s attack on Hezbollah through booby-trapped pagers and phones has unleashed such a flood of political cartoons that it’s hard to choose a reasonable number and then to decide where to start.But Peter Brookes lays out something of an overview in this progression of our ability to kill one another. As it happens, he doesn’t […]
Editorial cartoonist Henry Payne is being charged with drawing a “racist” cartoon that seems to imply that U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib, a Palestinian American, is a member of Hezbollah. From The Detroit Metro Times: A Detroit News auto industry reporter who moonlights as a political cartoonist is being criticized for appearing to imply that U.S. […]
Rounding up and settling down for a Friday free-for-all. Nick Anderson has a Gotham Gig; Andy Capp Reconsidered; Sergio Aragonés’ 2024 Award for Excellence; Bolling at Boing Boing; Bill Friday Memorial Service; BC Gets Fit; 10 With Tom Falco; and Lee Enterprises papers gets letters about their comics page change.Nick Anderson has a Gotham GigEditorial […]
Scott Stantis isn’t the only media person upset because Kamala Harris isn’t playing the game right, though it should be noted that he’s not one of the celebrity journalists who aren’t getting proper respect.Still, he’s right: She hasn’t made the usual rounds that aspiring politicians are expected to make, and as a result a large […]
At her Substack cartoonist Alex Hallatt writes about the BENEFITS of Artificial Intelligence: Earlier on in my career, I worked with a couple of publishers and I know cartoonists who worked with some really good ones. They would develop and edit your book, guiding you to make it the best work possible. Then they would […]
Editorial Cartoonist Michael de Adder is bailing on Patreon and putting all his efforts into Substack. Michael explains: I started Patreon and Substack not knowing anything about either. My wish was to do both. But Substack took off and the number of paid subscribers on Patreon is not sustainable. I would like to put all […]
“Have you seen them?”I have an appetite for dumb jokes and Matt Percival offers an excellent example, because people losing their glasses on their foreheads is a very old gag with little potential, while dogs digging up the yard searching for buried bones is ditto, but when you put them together … well, it’s not […]
Leonard Deakyn (L. D.) Warren (editorial cartoonist and Wallace Allan (Wally) Wood, comic artist.From Wikipedia: Leonard Deakyn “L.D.” Warren (December 27, 1906 Wilmington, Delaware – May 14, 1992) was an American editorial cartoonist. Warren graduated from Camden High School in Camden, New Jersey, where his family eventually moved. Warren worked at the New Jersey Courier […]