The Overseas Press Club presents: Join an online program with Adam Zyglis of The Buffalo News, the winner of this year’s Best Cartoon Award for best print or digital graphic journalism, including cartoons, on international affairs. Moderating the panel will be Rob Rogers, who served as head judge for the Best Cartoon Award jury. He won the OPC’s cartoon award for […]
With print news receding, online sources proliferating (and become more partisan), and digital tools opening new aesthetic horizons, what is happening to this form of visual commentary, once the shared experience of every reader with a newspaper and a cup of coffee? In this virtual symposium, prominent artists representing different generations and regions of the […]
above: Tom Toles for The Spectrum April 28, 1969 and for The Washington Post April 28, 2019Washington Post editorial page editor Fred Hiatt has announced that Tom Toles will be retiring with November 1, 2020 being his last contribution to The Post. From WaPo media reporter Paul Farhi:As of this writing Tom has not yet […]
The Association of American Editorial Cartoonists announced Rob Rogers, and his “Brewed on Grant” in the Pittsburgh Current, has won the 2020 Rex Babin Memorial Award for Excellence in Local Cartooning. From the Pittsburgh Current notice: “Brewed on Grant,” a strip with musings on local politics and current events, originally ran for more than 20 years […]
The Association of American Editorial Cartoonists announced its 2020 award winners during its (delayed and cancelled and now smaller and virtual) “convention” held the first weekend of October.The John Locher Memorial Award, for promising young cartoonists, was announced last month but made official this month.© Catherine Gong The AAEC/John Locher Memorial Award — Congrats to Catherine […]
above: Seth Boyes, Dickinson County NewsFrom NationalNewspaperWeek.com: This year’s observance will be held Oct. 4-10. This 80th annual National Newspaper Week is a recognition of the service of newspapers and their employees across North America and is sponsored by Newspaper Association Managers. Among the editorial and graphic material available to newspapers are cartoons. The cartoons […]
© Clay Bennett – Chatanooga Times Free PressB.B. Bell, General, U.S. Army (Ret), for The Patriot Post, is saddened by Clay Bennett‘s “disgraceful political humor” cartoon from early September:…when I looked at your political cartoon depicting the president awarding a “Loser Medal” to a decorated soldier, I welled up with deep sadness for America. While […]
A New Ipswich artist who created a political cartoon of a local state representative said his house was vandalized in response. Matt Patterson of New Ipswich mainly creates art of wildlife, with a special interest in turtles and amphibians. But he recently tried his hand at political satire of State Rep. Paul Somero, with a […]
The 2020 Cartoon Crossroads Columbus, like other events and gatherings this year, is online. The CXC is “an international showcase for the best of cartoon art in all its forms, including comics, animation, editorial cartoons, newspaper strips, and beyond.” And this year’s roster of guests explores all those areas of cartooning.With Special Guest Appearances. Since […]
While The Far Side cartoons have been repurposed by others for partisan ends, Gary Larson himself has never been political except in the most general terms (e.g., the government sucks).But now, in a new The Far Side cartoon, Gary gets specific as he takes us into a Museum of Relics where he shows a rare […]
200,000+ U. S. deaths attributed to Covid-19. Presidents — both Republican and Democratic — worked to ensure that if a pandemic came, there would be an effective plan to respond. Yet while other countries used that playbook and succeeded in doing what was necessary to get the coronavirus under control, the Trump administration threw out […]
Mike Bloomberg is investing #100 million in Florida on behalf of Joe Biden: There’s not much you can’t buy for $100 million. A private jet. Your own island. The 2020 payrolls of both the Miami Marlins and Tampa Bay Rays, with enough left over for Derek Jeter’s Davis Islands home. What about a swing state? […]
Designer and editorial cartoonist Ron Cobb has passed away.Ronald Ray (Ron) CobbSeptember 21, 1937 – September 21, 2020 From the Hollywood Reporter: Cobb died Monday — his birthday — of Lewy body dementia in Sydney, his wife of 48 years, Robin Love, reported. Cobb brought to life several cantina creatures for Star Wars (1977) and came up with […]
A common newspaper tactic is to “tryout” a few comic strips to get the reaction of its readers. That strategy is being used by The Lewiston (Idaho) Tribune to add an editorial cartoonist to their roster: You’re noticing some changes on these pages. Rather than the Lewiston Tribune’s traditional political cartoonists — Mike Luckovich of […]
Cartoonist Pat Byrnes has joined the cast of CagleCartoons. Says Daryl: I’m happy to write that we have just added a great new cartoonist to our CagleCartoons.com newspaper syndication package! Pat Byrnes is best known as a regular for The New Yorker – he’s drawn gag panels for all the major magazines and is an […]