This Week in Editooning
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With Phil Hands, Jack Compere, A. F. Branco, Alexandra Bowman, and the Chicago Library system.
Phil Hands
Wisconsin State Journal cartoonist Phil Hands got sports in his political cartoons and
Badger of Honor, the Wisconsin Badgers news and opinions site, appreciates it:
Even though three Power Four head coaches have been fired before the end of September, Fickell is not expected to be canned like DeShaun Foster, Brent Pry and Mike Gundy has, strictly for financial reasons. His buyout is massive and complicated, but one that people are growing tired of trying to justify. It seems as though Fickell and McIntosh are fat-catting it, while Wisconsin athletics unravels.
Phil Hands’ latest political cartoon for the Wisconsin State Journal really drives home the point here.
Hands depicts Bucky Badger carrying Fickell and McIntosh’s massive contracts in a giant sack on his back. Fickell and McIntosh are clinking champagne glasses in a sack of money. The joyless burden Bucky Badger is holding onto lets out this damning sigh of a statement: “At least Don Morton wasn’t too big to fail!” Morton was Wisconsin’s head coach before Barry Alvarez, going 6-27 from 1987-89…
Jack Compere
At The Corvallis Advocate Jack Compere gets folksy about “When the Don Goes Down.”
The paper thoughtfully includes the YouTube video of Bob Dylan’s “When the Ship Comes In.” Lyrics here.
A. F. Branco
“Shame” on A.F. Branco and The Monroe County/Macon Reporter from a potential subscriber.
I recently reviewed your paper for potential subscription and was so disappointed that the editors used this cartoon (at right) in the July 30 Reporter. Shame on you. Your source of information must be Fox News. With very little research into some intelligent sources with a desire to get to a neutral source (as required by good journalism), you would readily see the lack of truthful information in this cartoon.
We Are Not Done Yet Done at Chicago Libraries
An art exhibit at the Austin-Irving Branch of the Chicago Public Library (on Chicago northwest side) was abruptly removed on September 18th by order of the city’s Library Commissioner following political complaints by two unnamed individuals who are city employees and are on city payroll [emphasis added]. Without contacting the Branch Manager or the show’s curator / organizer, the exhibit was censored and ordered to be taken down early. The show was installed on July 5, 2025, and was scheduled through September 27, 2025.
Locust Review reports on a couple complaints ending free speech. The Chicago Tribune also carries the story.
Alexandra Bowman
Alexandra Bowman pops a balloon about the reality of political cartooning. From a Facebook post:
I’ve done a lot of typing out of posts about various professional challenges lately and then deleting drafts.
One subject of frustration: political cartooning is not a lucrative business. I always try to acknowledge this truth whenever I encourage new people, especially young people, to get involved. They should have no illusions about the money (not) involved.
My income comes from working with four different educational consulting firms on top of my private students.
I’ve made $31 for my political cartoons from the people I’ve made them for, for the last two years (not counting Substack, print sales, or the Locher award money).
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