San Francisco Bay Area public TV and radio station KQED challenges schools and teachers to get their students involved: Join a Youth Media Challenge to engage student voice and choice and foster civic engagement. Challenges are open to middle and high school students across the U.S. Challenge your students to share their voices beyond the […]
Pat Bagley has been sketching political cartoons at the Salt Lake Tribune since 1979. That makes him… “the longest continuously employed full-time editorial cartoonist in America” (beating out Steve Sack of The Minneapolis Star Tribune).Jeff Tiberii of North Carolina Public Radio station WUNC goes long distance to talk with Utah’s Salt Lake Tribune editorial cartoonist […]
After charges of antisemitism from the Anti-Defamation League Fox News deleted an A. F. Branco cartoon from its social media platforms.From The Daily Beast: After the Anti-Defamation League called out Fox News on Wednesday, the cable giant deleted its social-media posts portraying Jewish philanthropist George Soros as a “puppet master”—a common antisemitic trope. Posted to […]
Ellwood Atfield, the communications and advocacy headhunter, was delighted to host again the Political Cartoon of the Year Awards. We are delighted to announce the 2021 winning Political, Pocket and COVID Cartoons and Cartoonist’s. The winners for this British award were announced December 9, 2021. The Low Trophy for the Political Cartoonist of the YearBen Jennings […]
Bad Reporter cartoonist Don Asmussen has passed away. Donald Alan (Don) Asmussen October 31, 1962 – December 9, 2021Don has been fighting cancer for a few years, a battle he lost yesterday.John Backderf has informed us of the sad news. The San Francisco Chronicle has published a notice: Don’s loss is absolutely devastating,” said Chronicle […]
Caption: Even though my hand doctor assures me the image of a skull in my MRI is an optical illusion, the Punisher icon is apropos considering what this injury put me through in 2021. Cartoonist J. P. (Jape) Trostle has “trigger finger,” which presents a major problem with his drawing hand. My index finger and […]
Augustus J. Robinson, Boston Daily Globe Below are some editorial cartoons from the days following the December 7, 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor (80 years ago today).[Note: offensive caricatures and a term for the Japanese people is used in a few of the cartoons. They have not been ignored here and presented as part of […]
Political cartooning today is challenged by two trends: The disintegration of intelligence and substance in politics The disintegration of taste and skill in drawing. David Apatoff, at Illustration Art, discusses The Art of The Editorial Cartoon.… But achieving a reliable likeness is not the goal of the best political cartoons. The real artistry lies in […]
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Penn State University Libraries’ Eberly Family Special Collections is hosting a new digital exhibition titled “The World According to Doyle: Editorial Cartoons from The Jerry Doyle Papers at Penn State.” 1974/75ca. 1966 (click on cartoons to enlarge) Taking an expansive view of American politics during the 20th century, the digital exhibition examines […]
For more than a quarter century, political cartoonist Jesse Springer has parodied and highlighted the uniqueness that is Oregon. His work has appeared in many regional newspapers across the state. Springer’s latest book, “Only in Oregon” is a compilation of several hundred cartoons taking on everything from climate change to COVID-19 to gerrymandering. Jesse Springer […]
John Cole has been the editorial cartoonist for the Scranton (Pa) Times-Tribune since 2005. He also moonlights once a week for NC Policy Watch (he had spent twenty years previous to The Times-Tribune as staff artist/cartoonist for the Durham Herald-Sun). John recently sat down with Ed Pikulski for a twenty minute interview.The topics ranged from […]
Usually any book missed in the monthly Hey Kids! Comics! checklist would wait to be noted in the following month’s entry, but this one is too important (and deserves separate documentation anyway).PROFUSELY ILLUSTRATED A Memoir By Edward Sorel The book from Penguin Random House is now available! Alongside more than 172 of his drawings, cartoons, […]
The Reader is thrilled to announce that we are now carrying the work of award-winning cartoonist and South O. native Jeff Koterba online and in print. Last year Jeff Koterba was laid off from the Omaha World-Herald, now he returns to Omaha in the pages of the area’s alternative newspaper The Reader. The Reader welcomes […]
Clockwise from top left: Jackie Ormes, Tom Floyd, Jay Jackson, panels from Tom Floyd’s book “Integration is a Bitch!,” “Southern Inconsistency” by Leslie Rogers, “Spotty” by Daniel Day. Leslie Rogers created the Bungleton Green comic in 1920, which ran into the 1960s—and still holds the record as the longest-running Black comic strip in U.S. history. […]
If you are unaware of the renowned British editorial cartoonist and caricaturist here is cartoonist Mel Calman on Sir David Low:“Low was undoubtedly the best political cartoonist of his time.” That would run from 1910 to 1960, starting in New Zealand and ending in Great Britain. His heydays were with the conservative Evening Standard during […]