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 […]
Editorial cartoonist Marshall Ramsey ponders his career choice in 2018.Editorial cartoonist positions were already disappearing because of the swing of accountants’ axes. Losing one because the cartoonist was too critical of a person in power is particularly chilling.I’ll be honest, it’s unnerving. Change is scary. There are days when I wake up with fear in […]
I was basically my own editor for 25 years at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. And then the publisher decided he didn’t like what he saw.Rob Rogers, in comic strip form, details his Post-Gazette story for us at The Nib. Since Rob’s Brewed on Grant strip has seemingly ended, maybe we can get a different weekly comic strip […]
Journalist Jean Godden, writing for Westside Seattle, reveals that she hasalways had a secret love affair with editorial cartoonists and wish I’d had the talent and training to be one. It’s one thing to be an editorialist trying to right the world in 700 words or less. It’s far, far better to slay dragons in […]
Artist and cartoonist Paul Miller has passed away.Paul Rader Miller January 20, 1935 – June 18, 2018 From the Marin Independent Journal obituary:Paul was a Marine from 1954-56, and a 1958 graduate of UCLA, earning a B.A. and a Masters. His passion was being an artist of many media and styles, including caricatures. He treasured teaching a […]
The Lubbock Avalanche-Journal today begs for pardon:The Lubbock Avalanche-Journal published an editorial cartoon this past Monday – a cartoon which deserves an apology. The editorial cartoon caused anger and hurt for many in the community, including the law enforcement community – and for that we are regretful. We apologize for publishing the editorial cartoon, and […]
In 2011 David Horsey left Seattle for a six year vacation in Southern California. Now, upon his return to Seattle, he finds that the city didn’t just go into hibernation mode waiting for its wayward son to return. No, the city has changed. Original May 24, 2018 post:Late in 2017 Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist David Horsey […]
Mark Streeter Dana Summers Andy Marlette Bob Englehart Jeffrey Koterba Gary Varvel Steve Artley Signe Wilkinson Jim Morin They did what they could. They drew. Editorial cartoonists drew from the heart as the mass shootings they so often have to convey hit close to home.David Beard at Poynter on “how a few AAEC members represented the […]
Milt Priggee Gary Huck Clay Bennett Darrin Bell Steve Breen J. D. Crowe Pat Bagley Clay Jones Kevin Necessary Joel Pett Michael Ramirez Marc Murphy “We stand with our brothers & sisters at the Capital Gazette. Journalism is the only profession specifically protected in the Constitution, yet our lives are under daily threat these days from […]
Actor/comedian Jim Carrey has long had a talent as an artist.Carrey, who says he began painting six years ago to “heal a broken heart” following his split from Jenny McCarthy, primarily paints in his studio in downtown Manhattan, and his art has been featured in a number of galleries, including the Wyland Galleries in Waikiki, […]
A Tom Stiglich ed-op cartoon taking the conservative position about MS-13 and immigration and family separation for the Daily Gazette drew wrathful liberal responses to the editor.The Daily Gazette newspaper based out of Schenectady, New York, received dozens of irate letters over the June 20 cartoon from the syndicated, controversial and conservative-leaning cartoonist Tom Stiglich.“I’m […]
WOUB/NPR talks with Pultizer Prize winning editorial cartoonist Jack Ohman.Jack talks about the creative process of being a political cartoonist, some of the restrictions and some of the dangers of his profession. He gives us a view of how he goes about formulating a cartoon from the germ of the idea that starts the process […]