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 […]
In 1939 V. T Hamlin brought Neanderthal Man into the Present.Now cartoonist R. L. Crabb is rescripting some of those Alley Oop comic strips to focus on the efforts of the Republican Party to find their next Leader.The satire started on February 1, 2021 and has continued through at least today:Below – more original Alley […]
Cartoonist (and now multimedia creator) Keith Knight has been nominated!The complete list of NAACP Image Award nominees. In other Keef news, he has a new address on the internet.© Keith KnightSupport a cartoonist
Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy has his hands full on both coasts. His Washington D.C. troubles are lead stories on national networks, at home a faux pas is front page news – headlined above the fold.From the Bakersfield Californian:In a cartoon posted on Rep. Kevin McCarthy’s blog last week, a woman lounges under a tropical sun, […]
A Dennis Draughon editorial cartoon is taking some heat.From the right-of-center The Hill:North Carolina’s first Black lieutenant governor held a press conference on Tuesday to express outrage over a political cartoon that linked him and other members of the State Board of Education to the Ku Klux Klan for their opposition to allowing teachers to speak about […]
Which of The Usual Gang of Idiots Do You Most Admire? That’s almost impossible to answer … Mort Drucker was the master of caricature and literally defined the movie/TV parody. Jack Davis was the greatest action/movement/physical cartoonist maybe ever. Wally Wood was a virtuoso of ink, light, and shadow, and could draw virtually anything from […]
Seated at his desk at The Houston Chronicle in July 2017, Nick Anderson was neck-deep in research, searching for the subject of his latest cartoon, while mentally packing ahead of his family’s impending move to the Riverside Terrace house he’d closed on only six days prior when the phone rang: his boss needed to see […]
Editor & Publisher’s roots began in 1884 when The Journalist was first published to serve the U.S. newspaper industry. The Editor & Publisher: A Journal for Newspaper Makers was founded in 1901, and in 1907 it merged with The Journalist. Later, Editor & Publisher acquired Newspaperdom, a trade journal for the newspaper industry that started […]
The celebrated cartoonist of France’s Le Monde daily Plantu said Friday that he would soon leave the paper after half a century of work that has seen him mock the elite in his country and elsewhere with bitingly acerbic drawings. The departure on March 31 of Plantu — who has championed cartoons as a bastion […]
Our RFK Human Rights item reminds us to mention other awards deadlines. Your submissions must completed by January 22, 2021Today is the last for National Cartoonists Society‘s Divisional Reuben Awards submissions. Entry deadline: Jan. 25, 2021Almost as immediate is The Pulitzer Prize, whose deadline is only three days away. DEADLINE: January 31, 2021For The Award Formerly Known as The […]
The Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights organization is now accepting submissions for its Excellence in Journalism awards. … the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Awards honor outstanding reporting on issues that reflect Robert Kennedy’s concerns, including human rights, social justice, and the power of individual action in the United States and around the world. Entries should […]