I thought, since Mike mostly foregoes politics on Fridays, today would be a good time to update the reaction to the New York Times cartoon ban. But the AAEC beat me with their roundup earlier today. Though I think I can find a few cartoons if not editorials..It’s easy when Keith Knight puts out The […]
Your life is extremely busy these days, with the production of both editorial cartoons and two daily comic strips. Which is more difficult—the editorial work or the strips? I’d have to say the editorial cartoons. It’s almost performance art—something breaks on the news, and you only have a few hours to respond, to make deadline. I […]
above: Wayne celebrates 40 years with the paper and announces his retirement in 2029.below: Wayne announces he has been let go ten years earlier than planned. Wayne Wright has been sketching the daily cartoons for Summerside, [Prince Edward Island]-based newspaper the Journal Pioneer for the past 40 years, but last week that came to an […]
Last month Jennifer Grygiel advocated that the ease of creating and distributing political memes made it a superior editorial single-shot image than the pen and ink cartoon. With the New York Times canceling the use of one panel editorial cartoons, Jennifer returns to say – so what? Again championing the meme over the cartoon.As a […]
Reaction from the international cartooning community via Cagle Cartoons. Nikola Listes Michael Kountouris Hajo de Reijger Jos Collignon Emad Hajjaj Yaakov Kirschen Dale Cummings Robert Rousso And since we’re using his site, here’s one from The Man himself. Daryl Cagle
Cartoonist and community activist Marian Del Vecchio has passed away. Marian Del Vecchio February 24, 1935 – June 15, 2019 From the obituary:Her memoir, “Hunger,” traces her family’s 1938 escape from Hitler, the excitement of New York, and the Freudian labyrinth of the 1960s. In 1964 Marian married former fighter pilot, now attorney, Frank Del Vecchio. His […]
Cartoonists and Columnists continue to take the New York Times to task for banning political cartoons from both their domestic and International editions. Yesterday morning Mike Lynch produced a roundup of some of the cartoonists responses to the abhorrent action taken by “the paper of record”. Mike shows Ann Telnaes complete response (in a multi-panel format, […]
Hats off to cartoonistThis is just a quick opinion from a regular reader that the cartoon by Joe Heller in this week’s Herald-Independent about Bart Starr entering heaven is the best cartoon I have seen anywhere in a decade. Maybe two decades. Huzza Heller. Cartoon of Mother Goose poem sad example to useThe Gazette’s publishing of […]
Alex Jones and Infowars have agreed to pay Pepe the Frog creator Matt Furie $15,000 to settle a lawsuit concerning misuse of the cartoon character.Infowars included Pepe the Frog in a poster by Jon Allen featuring right-wing public figures in a campaign to earn money for the conspiracy-theory website. Both sides claimed victory in the struggle.“What […]
As expected political cartoonists are registering their disgust with the New York Times’ response to a New York Times International editor picking a cartoon that produced some blowback.Above Clay Jones draws his reaction, but also uses his column to explain the good editorial cartoons do for newspapers and society. Below Joep Beltrams shows that the New […]
From Patrick Chappatte:THE NEW YORK TIMES WILL END ALL POLITICAL CARTOONS I just learned, weeks after they published a syndicated Netanyahu cartoon that caused a scandal. For me, this is the end of an adventure that began 20 years ago. But the stakes are much higher. In 20-plus years of delivering a twice-weekly cartoon for […]
Mike Hill is the Florida State Representative for the Pensacola area. Andy Marlette is the editorial cartoonist and columnist for the Pensacola News Journal. So, as one would suspect, they butt heads on occasion. Their latest started with Rep. Hill, a Godly man, speaking of banning abortion because life is sacred.News Journal Publisher Rick Outzen reports […]
The April cartoon that appeared in the New York Times International Edition continues to elicit response and conversation.What makes more sense is the possibility that the cartoon made it into print because the paper’s staff—whether singular or plural—saw it as “a political issue and not religious,”… Yet the conventional wisdom on the left that anti-Zionism […]
In the early 1940s Dr. Seuss, as an editorial cartoonist, was advocating for U.S. intervention in Europe, opposing the isolationists.A two year old article, showcasing Dr. Seuss’s cartoons against the America First crowd. hat tip to Matt Wuerker for bringing this back.(updated)
Editorial cartoonist and illustrator John Latham has passed away.John David Gavin Latham May(?), 1959 – May 25, 2019 John was a political cartoonist for the Stratford (Ontario) Beacon Herald during the 1980s.From the Beacon Herald notice:For a period of time in the ‘80s, long before the advent of social media and residents’ ability to regularly comment […]