Editorial Cartoonists get love from newspapers at the end of the year with the annual wrap up of events that made the cartoons during the past 12 months. Here’s a look back at 2018 events as seen by political cartoonists. As usual, the [Cincinnati] Business Courier asked editorial cartoonist Joe Hoffecker to comb through his funnies from the […]
Adam Zyglis Is ConfusedFrom The Buffalo News:The editorial cartoon on Tuesday was misleading. The Democrats, liberals and leftists are the ones endorsed by the communists and socialists, not the National Rifle Association. The NRA is fighting to keep the Constitution so that our defense against tyranny is maintained. …but you published this unconscionable “cartoon” anywayAs an […]
At the time of his death in the early 20th Century Thomas Nast became known as “The Father of the American Cartoon.” Well-known as creator of the Republican and Demoocratic party symbols, the elephant and the donkey. He was credited in helping to bring down the corrupt Boss Tweed.Further, at this time of the year, […]
For 50 years, he has been at the heart of Britain’s morning conversation, as much a part of breakfast time as cornflakes and toast and marmalade. We are talking, of course, of Mac, the Daily Mail’s celebrated cartoonist whose laugh-out-loud drawings – sardonic but never cruel – have ensured readers up and down the country […]
Cartoonist/caricaturist Frankie Bernard has passed away.FRANCIS J. (FRANKIE) BERNARD, JR. April 30, 1967 – December 18, 2018 From the obituary:Frankie plied himself as a talented and professional cartoonist. He was a featured editorial cartoonist for the Chelsea Record and Journal Transcript Publications, he also worked several years as a caricature artist in Boston’s Faneuil Hall Market. […]
A few decades ago Dave Whamond began his career as an editorial cartoonist for The Calgary Herald while still in college. Now he once again joins The Brotherhood of Editorial Cartoonists.Daryl Cagle welcomes Dave “to Cagle.com and our syndication package.”The Dave Whamond archive at Cagle Cartoons only has a dozen or so cartoons up at […]
Marshall Ramsey, who has garnered considerable attention this year with his double cartoon tributes of Barbara and George H. W. Bush, has left the Jackson Clarion Ledger (a Gannett newspaper). Sez Marshall: “I’m leaving by my choice.”Earlier today Marshall informed via Twitter:Bit of person news: On December 16, 1996 I sat down at this drawing […]
[Association of American Editorial Cartoonists President Pat Bagley will be handing over the mantle to Kevin Siers next week. In the meantime, here is his departing letter] Dear Colleagues, First, the good news. The long-awaited redesign of our new website is nearing launch and should be up sometime in January. (Buy Adam Zyglis a beer […]
I am writing in regards to the comic article printed in the Courier Traveler on Dec. 5 condemning Catholic clergy… I feel it is so wrong for a local newspaper to comment about a religious denomination. How about an apology to all Catholics and Catholic clergy. This apology should be in large bold print. […]
George H. W. Bush is the overwhelming topic. In the Orlando Sentinel Dana Summers recalls a 1989 White House luncheon for editorial cartoonists hosted By Bush 41. The internal White House weekly cartoon roundup called “Friday Follies.”Ronald Reagan started “Friday Follies” during his administration, and Bush had kept the tradition going. Reagan loved editorial cartoons and had […]
In South Africa:The Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse (OUTA) came under fire over the weekend for the use of an alleged right-wing cartoonist’s image as the feature image for one of their latest media releases.OUTA hired Jeremy Nell, aka ‘Jerm,’ to help in its fight against tax abuse and corruption in Cape Town.It did not get […]
Upon learning the news that George H. W. Bush had died editorial cartoonist Marshall Ramsey knew what to draw.This cartoon was going to be a bookend to the cartoon I created when Barbara Bush died. It was an idea I had thought of when he was so ill in April. But he was tough and […]
CBS Sunday Morning’s Sunday Profile for December 2, 2018 is Jane Pauley interviewing cartoonist Garry Trudeau.Garry Trudeau and Jane Pauley are, of course, husband and wife.After the intro to the piece a face to face interview starts off a bit awkward but quickly gets into the high points of Garry’s career and the Doonesbury comic […]
Too Much of a Good Thing? Letter to the Editor of the Arizona Daily Star:But only one thing really bothers us: the lack of civility of your editorial cartoonist. I expect cartoonists to skewer those needing it; I don’t think it requires eviscerating them, and eating them for lunch. For example, I didn’t vote for […]
Editorial and comic strip cartoonist Wayne Stayskal has passed away.WAYNE H. STAYSKAL (né Stejskal) December 11, 1931 – November 20, 2018Columnist and friend Cal Thomas broke the news:Google “Great American Political Cartoonists” and you will undoubtedly find the late Herbert Block (aka “Herblock”) of The Washington Post, (Paul) Conrad of the Los Angeles Times, Michael […]