From Michael Cavna‘s piece:Looking back at the vintage work, it’s easy to see how quickly Trudeau grasped the essence of public Trump — the insatiable hunger for attention, the dizzying sense of entitlement, the playground petulance of one-upmanship, the embarrassing sense of decor and decorum and, always, the ravenous appetite for acquisition of objects and […]
Variety reports that Apple has signed a deal with DHX Media to create “series, specials and shorts” for Apple’s new streaming video service.Link:https://variety.com/2018/tv/news/apple-peanuts-dhx-media-1203089976/
The New Yorker has published “Trump in 2018: A Cartoon Review” which seems incredibly self-explanatory.Click here for the review.
iMediaEthics, “a not-for-profit, non-partisan news site that publishes the latest media ethics news and investigations into ethical lapses” has named their most controversial editorial cartoons of 2018 (through October). The list includes: Sean Delonas, Dieter Hanitzsch, Rob Rogers, Jeff Darcy, Avi Katz, Jos Valdman, Tom Stiglich, Gary Varvel, Chris Britt, Mark Knight and Rick McKee.From the piece:This year, […]
A recent letter to the editor in The (Salem, Ore.) Statesman Journal cited the December 15th “B.C.” as insensitive in the current #metoo climate:From the letter: The daily syndicated strip depicts a caveman carrying a very large club and being asked by another character if he has a “big date tonight?” Is this really funny in a […]
From the piece:In 2018, the most popular cartoons ranged in subject matter from dogs to cats, from parents to children, and from normal, emotionally balanced people to Donald Trump. They spanned a wide range of dates, too—the most popular cartoon on Instagram, by Peter Steiner, was originally published in 1990, which is quite a throwback, […]
Editor Scott McIntosh of the Idaho Press in Idaho Falls has penned a tongue-in-cheek column where he says that he will no longer run any editorial cartoons that criticize Trump.From the column:You can see where I’m going here. Can you imagine what the newspaper would look like if we didn’t publish anything that someone might […]
The Star-Banner (Ocala, Fla.) Managing Editor Jim Ross describes how his paper’s editors select and manage their editorial cartoons.From the column:As a writer, I envy cartoonists. They can summarize a feeling, a sentiment, a controversy, a triumph — anything, really — in a minimum amount of space. If a picture is worth a thousand words, then […]
Tangentially related to syndication, NPR’s Shankar Vandantem looks into how local citizens pay more in taxes when local newspapers go out of business.https://www.npr.org/2018/12/11/675505080/local-newspaper-closures-come-with-hefty-price-tag-for-residents
Voice of America’s web site profiles the editorial cartooning medium with a short video featuring Politico’s Matt Wuerker and Patty Rhule of the Newseum. https://www.voanews.com/a/editorial-cartoons/4693810.html
Hey, TDC readers! It’s time for another roundup of comics-related letters to the editor from around the continent.From the Fairfield (Calif.) Daily Republic a reader writes to lament the loss of “the best” comic strips and lets the paper know comics are the “main reason” he subscribes. Click here for letter.A reader of the Topeka (Kan.) […]
There’s much hubbub on social media on Tumblr’s new content policy. Cartoonist Shan Murphy had posted a couple of Garfield drawings and they were flagged and removed.Kotaku covered the story here. (some potentially NSFW content included in the piece).
George Gene Gustines over at The New York Times covers the news that King Features has retooled the look and feel of Popeye and has created new animations to commemorate his 90th birthday.From the piece: “He’s younger, but you can’t tell how old he is,” said C. J. Kettler, the president of King Features, which syndicates the […]
Longtime/former New Yorker cartoon editor and current Esquire humor editor Bob Mankoff announced earlier in the month he was launching a new cartoon site in the same mold as The Cartoon Bank (a site he created and later sold to Conde Nast).He spoke to Michael Cavna at The Washington Post’s Comic Riffs about the new site […]
Apollo Magazine muses on the “genius” of Charles Schulz as it uncovers more details on the Peanuts Exhibit running through March at Somerset House in London.From the piece:The final section of the exhibition looks at the treatment of particular themes in Peanuts. Lucy – ‘the most terrifying character in the history of comics’, according to the […]