From the Livingston Ledger:An image of the Duke of Cambridge leap-frogging over his father the Prince of Wales [#39] is among the satirical Gerald Scarfe cartoons going on sale. The unpublished image, which has a £3,000 to £5,000 estimate, is among a catalogue of cartoons to be sold by Sotheby’s auctioneers in central London on […]
As Mansion Global says:Ranan Lurie couldn’t have drawn a more perfect view from his 63rd-floor Manhattan apartment, which serves as his office and studio. Now the political cartoonist is about to put the two-bedroom, two-and-a-half bathroom apartment at Time Warner Center on the market for just under $5 million. The listing is set to be […]
For those with a political bent in need of a 2020 calendar, you might want…The Economist 2020 KAL Calendar orTHE 2020 LALO ALCARAZ AND LA CUCARACHA CARTOON CALENDAR! orthe 2020 Keefie-Toon Mega-Mix Calendar!
An update on our story of an editorial cartoon that made light of a measles outbreak in Samoa that is killing the young and the elderly.After an uproar and street protests the Otago Daily Times printed a mea culpa, and editor Barry Stewart publicly stated a more heartfelt apology.Cartoonist Garrick Tremain at the time gave a […]
When an editor gets a message from a reader about an editorial cartoon, he knows it is not going to be from a happy camper. But every once in a blue moon that editor is surprised:Political cartoonist Michael Ramirez is simply a genius. I have been amazed and entertained for years by Mr. Ramirez’s phenomenal […]
Seattle’s alternative newspaper The Stranger takes exception with David Horsey being a middle-of-the-road editorial cartoonist:Seattle Times‘ editorial cartoonist David Horsey has it in his mind that he is the voice of good old American common sense. He never goes too far to the right, nor too far to the left. He is a moderate, and […]
The Guardian proudly reports that one of their cartoonists, Rebecca Hendin, won the Political Cartoon of the Year award.The artist Rebecca Hendin has won the political cartoon of the year award for a work in the Guardian that depicted Boris Johnson sitting in a burning room while skipping a joint press conference with Luxembourg’s prime […]
Here’s the story in a nutshell. In May, 1952, after the Russian invasion of Yugoslavia, the principal United Nations countries and the United States declare war. The United States uses atomic bombs against Russian industrial complexes. Soviet forces invade West Germany, the Middle East and Alaska. US forces, in disarray, have retreated on all fronts. […]
For the entire month of December, USA TODAY cartoonist Mike Thompson, along with cartoonists from the USA TODAY Network and the Cagle cartoon syndicate, will provide retrospectives of their favorite work from the past decade.According to USA TODAY: The cartoonists were asked to gather their 20 favorite cartoons from the past decade into individual collections, and we’ll be […]
The New York Post reports:The 121-year old Dayton Daily News and two other Ohio newspapers will shrink to three days a week from daily publication to appease regulators who on Monday approved a $3.1 billion acquisition of Cox TV stations and newspapers by private equity firm Apollo Global Management. The other two papers facing the […]
above: “Purgatory”Daryl Cagle welcomes Peter Kuper to the Cagle Cartoons family:I’m happy to call attention to our new CagleCartoonist, Peter Kuper, who has joined our newspaper syndication package at CagleCartoons.com, along with our PoliticalCartoons.com store and Cagle.com. See our archive of Peter’s latest cartoons on Cagle.com. Peter has an impressive cartooning resume! He is a […]
In Samoa almost 4000 people have come down with measles; 55, mostly young children, have died. The Samoan measles outbreak was turned into a gag by New Zealand cartoonist Garrick Tremain.It sparked immediate outrage and was labelled racist, heartless, and insensitive. The outcry led to the Otago Daily Times, who published the cartoon to issue an […]
Sputnik News, owned and funded by the Russian Government, is registering displeasure over a recent Mike Luckovich cartoon.Sputnik, using a lot of boldface, says:An award-winning American political cartoonist has made a habit of deploying bigoted tropes as a political weapon against Russians. His latest doodle features a nefarious “Russians” figure arbitrarily thrown into a motley […]
Josh Neufeld and Journalist’s Resource have partnered to present a Graphic Guide to the 2020 US Census.The seven-page handbook can be read at the Journalist’s Resource site.This piece is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. For educators, editors and anyone else who would like to republish it in print, we are providing […]
above: a wonderful seasonal drawing by the wonderful Arnold RothThe NYC Chapter of the National Cartoonists Society will be hosting the 2019 Holiday Bash.When: Wed, Dec 11, 7-10pmWhere: Society of IllustratorsE 63rd between Park & Lex, NYCDetails at the NCS site.Early registration pricing ends on December 4, so book now to save a few bucks. […]