A Few Updates
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With Frank Stack, David Oskow, Peter Kuper, Jeff Koterba, Adam Zyglis, Rick McKee, and Daryl Cagle.
Frank Stack, NY Times Obituary
Apparently The New York Times didn’t have an obituary for Frank Stack “in the can.” A month after Stack’s passing we finally get a notice of death from the paper of record by Michael S. Rosenwald (or here):
As Foolbert Sturgeon — a persona he concealed for two decades to protect his day job — he lampooned religion, academia and the military, among other sacred tendrils of the 1960s and ’70s, signing his acerbic broadsides with his vaudevillian nom de plume.
More Late Night Not Naming The Cartoonist
Last week we saw a late night TV host feature a Tom Richmond MAD cover without crediting the caricaturist, now we see another late night TV talk show host display a New Yorker cartoon by David Oskow and, again, name-checking the magazine but not the cartoonist.
Fantagraphics Proud of Pulitzer Finalist Peter Kuper
Peter Kuper was a 2026 Pulitzer Prize finalist earlier this month and his publisher Fantagraphics released a congratulatory press release as reported by Broken Frontier:
We are pleased to announce that Peter Kuper is a Pulitzer Prize Finalist in Illustrated Reporting and Commentary for his portfolio of vibrant and wordless political cartoons on the climate crisis, politics and emerging technology, work which can be found online and in our bestselling collection, Wish We Weren’t Here, which contains some of the nominated cartoons…
National Headliner Cartoonists Interviewed
Last month Jeff Koterba, Adam Zyglis, and Rick McKee were named winner and finalists of the National Headliner Awards in the Editorial Cartoonist category. Daryl Cagle gathered all three to discuss their award winning cartoons on a 37 minute Caglecast podcast.
Join Daryl Cagle and three of America’s top award-winning editorial cartoonists — Jeff Koterba (2025 National Headliners Award winner), Rick McKee (runner-up), and Adam Zyglis (Pulitzer Prize winner and previous Headliners winner) — in this insightful Caglecast conversation. The cartoonists go through their sharpest Trump-bashing cartoons from the past year, discussing each one on screen while sharing the hilarious stories behind the ideas, their drawing techniques, and what makes them land so effectively.
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