This past week La Presse put a Serge Chapleau cartoon on its website depicting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as the 1922 film vampire Nosferatu, and then almost immediately took it down and apologized as accusations of antisemitism began appearing. Just as quickly the Association of Canadian Cartoonists (ACC) responded by backing their brother. … […]
Ted Rall (Counterpoint)’s cartoon sent me scurrying to find whatever blog/podcast/column went with it, because it made no sense to blame Millennials. Turns out he saw a Millennial tell a homeless person “I don’t carry cash” and he feels the cashless society is a government plot.Well, possibly, but I don’t carry cash and I’m too […]
Caption contests are not new. They’ve been around since the late nineteenth century, and the newspapers and magazines that sponsored them enticed people to participate by offering cash prizes. In 1912, The San Francisco Call offered twenty dollars for the best title to a drawing of a woman in a cooking apron sifting tiny, well-dressed […]
Yes, I know. We’ll get to it after a few more cartoonists have weighed in. For now, we’ll skip the politics and have a few laffs instead.Anyway, she’s not the only one who has suddenly popped up in a most bizarre place. Rip Haywire (AMS) is trying to figure out who he is and where […]
Don’t know how many click on the “News” button in the Comics Kingdom banner running at the top of their pages. I do most every day, and a couple of days ago Alex Garcia provided us with another site update. Which gives us an excuse to once more rage against the machine – or at […]
Lisa Benson (Counterpoint) sums up the situation as we head into the weekend: Trump has a major debt hanging over his head and no comfortable way to pay it.To be accurate, it’s not $454 million that he’s got to raise. When you add in the cost of the bond, or, as the fellows he may […]
Yesterday Montreal’s La Presse published an editorial cartoon by Serge Chapleau depicting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as the title character from the 1922 film Nosferatu.From the Montreal Gazette: La Presse has apologized after a cartoon depicting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as a vampire sparked outrage. The depiction, by veteran editorial cartoonist Serge Chapleau, […]
The possible unmasking of an anonymous right wing cartoonist by Mike Peterson yesterday may get him suspended from X/Twitter if the recent efforts to reveal the identity of cartoonist Stonetoss is any indication. From Mashable: Last week, Anonymous Comrades Collective, an online group that describe themselves as an “antifascist journalism collective dedicated to exposing Nazis, […]
Reading Alex requires you to recognize the strict compliance requirements in the British workplace, but this one works anywhere because the IRS similarly allows you to write off business lunches, including alcoholic beverages, but with rules, including that things not get too “lavish and expensive.”Being able to write off a large, expensive bottle of wine […]
Steve Brodner has been named the 2024 Herblock Prize winner (with portfolio). On choosing Brodner the judges said: Brodner’s work is unflinching, driven by a strong moral compass and imbued with a powerful sense of compassion. As the quote from Herblock engraved on the trophy reads, “Political cartoons, unlike sundials, do not show the brightest […]
The National Newspaper Awards have announced the finalists for works published in 2023. In the Editorial Cartooning category the finalists are Michael de Adder, Halifax Chronicle Herald Brian Gable, Globe and MailBruce MacKinnon, Halifax Chronicle Herald In their comments about the finalists the NNA notes: The Globe and Mail’s Grant Robertson (Bob Levin Award for […]
Rick McKee offers a bit of a puzzler, because we seem to be locked in an endless argument over what Dear Leader said and what Dear Leader meant. Is it intentional? His fault? Our fault?Trump has plenty of trouble just reading from his TelePrompter, lapsing off into incoherent approximations of what’s written in front of […]
Cartoonist Paul Trap paid tribute to Terry and the Pirates with Milton Caniff‘s Pat Ryan and The Dragon Lady making an appearance in Thatababy today: Paul pirated (heh, heh) a couple panels from the October 10, 1936 Terry and the Pirates comic strip:
March 19, 1984 saw a new comic strip by Bill Holbrook syndicated to newspapers across America. The characters of On The Fastrack would change over the years with some taking on the starring role over others. On May 18, 2010 a character came into the strip who would take on that starring role. As Bill […]
Political cartoonists got a bit of a break in that they could draw cartoons about Putin’s re-election just about any time and then put things on autopilot and take a vacation when the election actually took place.But Patrick Chappatte makes a good point in that Putin himself seems to be on autopilot, neither caring about […]