Pia Guerra, New Yorker cartoonist and editorial cartoonist (not completely separate categories), has a hardcover book, Me The People, of her editorials coming out a month before the mid-term elections in the United States. Andrea Ayres talked to Pia about the book and editorial cartooning.Up until now I drew comics pages that when finished, got […]
Four pages* of the May 9, 1754 issue of Benjamin Franklin’s Pennsylvania Gazette, including the page with the original printing of the JOIN, or DIE cartoon sold for the minimum bid of $40,000. A buyer’s premium of 25% brought the total to $50,000.The auction started on July 26, 2018 at 5pm Pacific time. When I […]
Many branches of the Arts have honored the Capital Gazette fallen and survivors and The Press.Grieving and healing manifest themselves in different ways. For artists from Annapolis to Italy, grieving and healing have shaped their talents into tributes to the Capital Gazette victims. Their works are inspired by and dedicated to the victims of the […]
From The Times of Israel:A veteran Israeli cartoonist was cut loose on Tuesday from the magazine he worked at for nearly three decades over an illustration portraying Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Likud lawmakers as pigs from George Orwell’s “Animal Farm.”Following the uproar, the Jerusalem Post announced it would no longer work with Katz. “Avi […]
“Join, or Die” is widely heralded as America’s first newspaper political cartoon.It was published in the May 9, 1754 edition of Benjamin Franklin‘s Pennsylvania Gazette.An original of that publication will be auctioned off July 26.The original May 9, 1754 “Pennsylvania Gazette” newspaper featuring Benjamin Franklin’s famous “JOIN, or DIE” cartoon will be auctioned by Nate […]
“I have gotten more liberal over time, due to circumstances,” [Nick] said. “And the country has gotten more conservative as I have gotten more liberal. ” Now, he admittedly takes on the opposition and said any good cartoonist would do the same. “I am an opinion journalist,” he said. “Editorial cartooning is opinion journalism. I […]
Shocking. Offensive. Truthful. These are all words that have been used to describe the work of controversial cartoonist Mr. Fish – aka Dwayne Booth.I think outrageous is also applicable, because Fish seems to be outraged at the state of our country. And he explains why in this July 19, 2018 Yahoo Unfiltered article and video.A […]
Earlier this month HBO’s Vice News did a segment with Rob Rogers.“I think there’s a bigger story in terms of the administration’s attacks on the media and how certain media outlets, including Fox News and Sinclair media, how they’ve sort of gotten in line,” Rogers told VICE News. “You know that’s what was happening at […]
Not often anymore, but today Bill Bramhall‘s editorial cartoon made the front page of his newspaper.Bill’s cartoon is gaining fame for it’s depiction of the Trump-Putin news conference.From The Hill: Tuesday’s cover of The New York Daily News depicts President Trump shooting Uncle Sam in the head after his jaw-dropping summit with Russian President Vladimir […]
Block Island Times publisher and editorial cartoonist Bruce Montgomery has passed away.Royal Bruce Montgomery, publisher of The Block Island Times from1999 to 2006, and editorial cartoonist since 1998, died on Thursday, July 5, at the age of 78. His obituary appears on page 22. ROYAL BRUCE MONTGOMERY August 5, 1939 – July 5, 2018 [Bruce] began […]
This week Ted Rall updated the status of his two year old lawsuit against the Los Angeles Times:I sued the LA Times for wrongful termination and defamation in 2016. The Times responded with an anti-SLAPP motion asking the court to order me to pay them hundreds of thousands of dollars in their legal fees. They […]
Bumped up to the top as a reminder of Keith Knight’s current strips. original July 10 post:Three days before the Capital Gazette shooting Milo Yiannopoulos texted that he “can’t wait for the vigilante squads to start gunning journalists.” Bill O’Reilly, after years of debasing George Tiller as “Tiller the Baby Killer,” disavowed any culpalbility in the […]
New Jersey Chiefs of Police Upset with Signe Wilkinson Last month The Asbury Park Press published a Signe Wilkinson cartoon and the New Jersey State Association of Chiefs of Police took exception to the portrayal. A conservative blogger picked up the story. Against the Grain: Bombthrowing in the Fine American Tradition of Political Cartooning Bill Sanders […]
Conservative editorial cartoonist Gary Varvel, like so many others, didn’t take Donald Trump seriously.In this braggadocios “I’m the greatest” culture, Trump became the Muhammad Ali of politicians. His claims of, “I will be the greatest jobs president that God ever created,” “I’m really rich,” “I’m very highly educated,” “I’m the best (fill in the blank)” […]
[Jack Ohman] grew up fishing for bluegills in Lake Johanna, slinging Texas rigs for bass on Mille Lacs and drifting for walleyes in his father’s 12-foot “car-topper,’’ a vintage boat he still keeps. High school friends coaxed him to the Kinnickinnic River in River Falls, Wis., and he evolved into a fly fishing junkie of […]