The Frontier, an Oklahoma-centric nonprofit news website, has announced that Tulsa based editorial cartoonist Bruce Plante will become a contributor.© Bruce Plante Opinion sections in newspapers have long been a way to present important viewpoints to readers from a diverse set of perspectives. With that being said, The Frontier will soon have an increased focus […]
Gannett responded to The Washington Times article about Gannett cancelling Mallard Fillmore. Amalie Nash, senior vice president of local news at USA Today Network, the Gannett newspaper brand, said the decision to stop running the 27-year-old cartoon was based on a recent review. “We made a decision last month to discontinue the Mallard Fillmore comic […]
The Worcester Business Journal published an editorial cartoon critical of the local Table Top Pies factories which drew a complaint from the company.Cartoonist Don Landgren shared the complaint that asserted the cartoon was racist:“We are deeply concerned about the recent editorial cartoon that was published on December 8, 2020 depicting an African American worker on […]
Editorial cartoonist Bill Sanders has passed away.William Willard (Bill) Sanders October 14, 1930 – February 27, 2021 From The Milwaukee Journal: Milwaukee Journal political cartoonist William (Bill) Sanders was remembered Sunday as a dynamic artist who wasn’t afraid to challenge those in power. Sanders died Saturday at the age of 90. Sanders began his cartooning career […]
A week after Michael Cavna’s Washington Post article advocating more diversity among editorial cartoonists, conservative outlets are not letting go. The main complaint seems to be that we have too much to be concerned about without adding more.From The Federalist: One would think in an America still suffering the social and economic devastation stemming from […]
Mike Marland has informed the people of New Hampshire: The time has come to start a slow slide into retirement. It’s going to take me a few years to actually get there, but I’m going to begin by retiring from drawing editorial cartoons. Mike has two reasons for the decision. I’ve been drawing them for […]
Earlier this month Tom Richmond gave a timeline of MAD magazine’s past eight years – from New York-based original material to Burbank-produced (mostly) reprint issues. October 2013– DC Comics announces they are closing their New York offices… Feb 2018– MAD #550 drops on news stands. This is the final New York produced issue… February 2021- […]
The Wrap is reporting that Jim Carrey will put away his slings and arrows as a political cartoonist. “For the past 4 yrs, among other commitments, I put considerable effort into this collection of political protest cartoons. It truly feels as though you and I have crossed an ocean of outrage together…but something tells me […]
© The Ashville Citizen, 1928 Reactions to cartoons about Rush Limbaugh’s death are starting to come in,including this Power Line take on the comparatively mild Steve Sack obitoon.© Star Tribune/Steve Sack The Star Tribune observed the death of Rush Limbaugh with an editorial cartoon … By editorial cartoonist Steve Sack — I think of him as […]
Cartooning the Mid-20th Century Newsroom Cartoonists and other artists, working in newsrooms, captured and caricatured their working lives, including their colleagues, in these places. What follows is a small sample of the images I have gathered in my research for my new book on the history of the American newsroom from the 1920s through the […]
Racist Cartoons Help Incite an 1898 North Carolina Massacre>> Warning: historically racist caricature and content << When a mob bent on insurrection stormed the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, some onlookers labeled the event “unprecedented.” But the United States has witnessed coups d’etat before—both attempted and successful—within its borders. In 1898, white supremacists in […]
Canadian artist and cartoonist Alan King has passed away.Alan Howard King1947 – February 8, 2021 Guy Badeaux is reporting the sad news and providing a profile: It is with great shock and sadness that I learned of the passing last night, at St. Michael’s hospital in Toronto, of Alan King, former editorial cartoonist at The Ottawa Citizen. In […]
Jen Sorenson, new President of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists, introduces herself to the membership. Dear colleagues, I’m not sure how it happened, but it seems I am now somehow president of this organization. Between the pandemic, a tough economy, the ongoing collapse of the newspaper industry, a violent insurrection, and a war on […]
The Right Wing Media Research Center was apoplectic over a recent NBC Today show where Left Wing hosts praised Garry Trudeau and his Doonesbury comic strip. After [Al Roker] noted some newspapers placed Doonesbury on the editorial page, [Harry] Smith added: “And sometimes when the subject was particularly volatile, these papers would just black out […]
Last year Dick Wright returned to editorial cartooning after a 15 year break.Now he has got a much wider audience by joining the Cagletoons syndicate.From Daryl Cagle’s introduction: Conservative cartoonists are rare, and great conservative cartoonists are extremely rare; we’re delighted to have Dick join our cartoonists and we look forward to seeing him give […]