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KAL on “Cartoonists Under Siege”
Profs and Pints DC will feature an evening with Kevin (KAL) Kallaugher.
Profs and Pints DC presents: “Cartoonists Under Siege,” on the rich history and uncertain future of political cartooning, with Kevin “KAL” Kallaugher, award-winning editorial cartoonist for The Economist, former artist in residence at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, and frequent speaker at universities.
Kallaugher will walk his audience through the unique set of challenges currently facing him and his colleagues. They include a new media landscape in which upstart media platforms have siphoned audiences away from the legacy media, the traditional home for cartoonists. On top of that, an increasingly threatening political environment has put satirists in crosshairs and political cartoonists face competition from Artificial Intelligence programs that feed, without pay or credit, off artists’ work.
Mon, Nov 3rd, 2025 6:00 PM – 8:30 PM EST Penn Social Tickets
“Plática con Cartoonist Lalo Alcaraz”
Eleni Klostrakis for The Union covers a recent meeting with Lalo Acaraz.
Award-winning political cartoonist Lalo Alcaraz joined MICASA and Puente for a plática, meaning conversation, Tuesday, Oct. 14 in the Social Justice Center in the afternoon.
Alcaraz explained his work, the key moments in his career and afterward took questions from the audience.
“I take down rich and powerful people, who deserve to be taken down,” Alcaraz said.
Throughout his career, Alcaraz has used his art to speak out against the political climate, highlighting cultural representation, discriminatory issues and the importance of being civically engaged.
“It’s always been important, and now you know, many of us have taken it for granted… it’s the people got to step up and be responsible for it,” Alcaraz said.
Today, Alcaraz is working on a project called “Contra Ice,” a music album compilation that comes out next year.
Letters to the Editor: Trump and Hitler and Editorial Cartoons
A Dana Summers editorial cartoon in the Oct. 10 opinion section shows two donkeys crying as one says “Bad news. Hitler is brokering Mideast peace.” The cartoonist may be attempting to skewer the donkeys’ attitudes. However, in my opinion, any use of your platform to associate a powder-keg icon such as Adolf Hitler with a contemporary political figure such as President Donald Trump could be a trigger that instigates political violence. We need to tone down political rhetoric, not fan the flames of it. Shame on you for posting that cartoon!
Still out West but north of the border The Albertan gets a letter:
As a Jewish resident of this region, I was deeply saddened and offended by the cartoon printed on page 18 of the Sept. 23 Albertan.
This cartoon pictured President Donald J. Trump goose-stepping while performing a Nazi salute. The Nazi era is home to our deep pain as Jews, our great loss and my personal loss of relatives taken from Hungary to Auschwitz.
To associate President Trump with Adolf Hitler, even in a cartoon is an extremely wrong. His administration has done more to protect Jewish (and might I add Druze, Bedouin, Israeli Arab, Christian and Muslim) and other innocent lives than any previous administration after the horrific attack and loss of life on Oct. 7, 2023.
Sports Cartoonist Drew Litton Also Does Editoons
Some may not know that famed Colorado sports cartoonist Drew Litton also dips his pen in political cartoons for The Colorado Sun.
An’ the Gobble-uns ‘at gits you
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Watch
Out!
[from the 1885 poem Little Orphant Annie by James Whitcomb Riley via Flashbak]
The other day Mike Peterson opened with a Paul Duginski cartoon. Here we close with one that impressed me.
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