Part Two of The Best Editorial Cartoons of 2020.Possibly the most famous cartoon of 2020 is by Mike Luckovich, who provides a brief commentary for each of the Atlanta Journal Constitution editorial cartoons he picks as his best. From USA Today: This week, we are featuring 2020 retrospectives by editorial cartoonists from across the USA TODAY […]
photos via Steve Milloy and Matt WuerkerFor the second time in ten days The Washington Post gave Ann Telnaes a full page to express her opinion. A most excellent use of the acreage.If you don’t get the dead tree edition, the cartoons can be read in detail at Ann’s WaPo page, or with Mike […]
Thought there would be a lot more “Our Cartoonist Looks Back on 2020” articles on this last Sunday of the year, but I guess with the dwindling number of editorial cartoonists on staff… The Minneapolis Star Tribune present some of Steve Sack‘s 2020 cartoons. A bit southeast the Wisconsin State Journal does the same with Phil Hands. Heading […]
Signe Wilkinson and The Philadelphia Inquirer/The Philadelphia Daily News announced today that Signe will become an occasional contributor rather than a daily editorial cartoonist: Editor’s Note: Signe Wilkinson, the first woman win a Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning, and the cartoonist for The Inquirer and Daily News since 1985, is putting down her pencil at […]
This Christmas-themed collection includes works by Daniel R. Fitzpatrick, Robert Lemen, Marguerite Martyn, Bill Mauldin, Robert Minor, Amadee Wohlschlaeger and other Post-Dispatch artists and editorial cartoonists. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch gallery of 50 cartoons through the years.
The Florida Press Club had announced the winners of their annual competition.Ed Hall took three awards, Steve Borggren one, and team Ryan Sohmer and Lar DeSouza one. Illustration, Artist Illustration, Class A-C Ed Hall, Folio Weekly Ed Hall, Folio Weekly Illustration, Editorial Cartooning, Class A-B Steve Borggren, Anna Maria Island Sun Illustration, Editorial Cartooning, Class […]
We know you are currently occupied with the holiday season, but the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists wants you to know about the submission deadlines for next year’s awards – many of which must be submitted by January and February. National Cartoonist Society Divisional Reuben AwardsDeadline: January 2021Rules and entry form available online: https://www.nationalcartoonists.com/awards/guidelines/National Newspaper Awards […]
On Friday, December 18 The Washington Post took up most of a page printing an Ann Telnaes editorial cartoon naming Republican officials who she claims are guilty of sedition by openly calling for an overturning of a constitutional election.Conservative media found a talking point to express their displeasure with the cartoon when Fox contributor Steve […]
[Stanley McMurtry] signed off from daily newspapers in December 2018 with a cartoon depicting himself being pushed reluctantly through the front gate of a home for retired cartoonists with the caption ‘Oh, come on, Mac! You’re supposed to walk happily into the sunset’ – he has yearned to return. Last night, Mac said: ‘I found […]
Historical looks at The Ungentlemanly Art from the past week.Illustrating Propaganda During World War I If the echoes of fascism have brought the 1930s and ‘40s troublingly to mind, it’s worth recalling that modern propaganda became a global enterprise during the First World War, rather than the second. For the US, that conflict was brief, […]
Darrin Bell goes back almost 30 years to his old Cal Berkeley rootswith a special comic strip that takes us back nearly 2,000 years. Apparently an excerpt from a Stan Kelly cartoon has become a popular meme. Kelly has a very black-and-white view of the world. The color black, if you look through the cartoons, is […]
Freelance editorial cartoonist Jake Fuller has lost his spot at The Gainesville Sun due to bad timing and an inattentive opinion page editor. A cartoon using domestic violence as an analogy was published two days after a double homicide, but Jake’s deadline, which he met, was two days before the tragedy.WCJB Gainesville reports: A freelance […]
Trudeau: The legendary Mary McGrory told me that in all her years of writing columns, she wasn’t sure a single one of them had changed anything. That’s not a bar that cartoonists generally set for themselves, but in the case of my story arc about racist Palm Beach pass cards, the strip did have an […]
It Ain’t The Stanley But…In a year in which horrible news has been replaced by more horrible news, the job of a political cartoonist is more important than ever. That’s according to the Museum of Australian Democracy, which has named The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age’s Cathy Wilcox the political cartoonist of the year. […]
Join cartoonists Robb Armstrong,Darrin Bell,Keith “Keef” Knight,Elizabeth Montague, and Bianca Xunise as they discuss the Black experience as told through graphic novels and comic stories. Robb Armstrong, who inspired the last name of the Peanuts character Franklin Armstrong, is the creator of the groundbreaking comic strip, Jump Start, which celebrates its 30th anniversary this year. Darrin Bell […]