Editorial cartoonist A. F. Branco‘s new book, Make America Laugh Again, is available for pre-order now from Amazon, and will be released next week.Promo as seen at Ammoland.com. Volume One is Comically Incorrect and still available from Amazon.
Crying girl not taken from mom: Corrected/Updated Darcy cartoonCleveland Plain Dealer editorial cartoonist Jeff Darcy has corrected and apologized for making a factual error in his June 20th cartoon. above: the original cartoon as seen on Cagle.com My June 20 cartoon, in which I drew the image of the girl, erroneously stated the girl had been […]
The new alternative newspaper Pittsburgh Current has reached an agreement to publish Rob Rogers political cartoons on the web and in print.Pittsburgh Current is pleased to announce that it will be the first Pittsburgh publication to carry former Post-Gazette cartoonist Rob Rogers. An agreement was reached with this morning with Andrews McMeel Universal, Rogers syndication […]
The Clarksdale (Miss.) Press Register will be featuring the work of editorial cartoonist Ricky Nobile each week on their opinion page. Ricky has been providing locally-themed cartoons to Mississippi newspapers since 1971.Ricky has provided over 48 years of editorial cartoons on Mississippi politics to over 40 newspapers and is the editorial cartoonist for The Mississippi […]
The fact checking site Snopes has investigated the circumstances surrounding the recent difficulties between the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and Rob Rogers.Was a Cartoonist Fired for an Anti-Trump Drawing?WHAT’S TRUERob Rogers was fired by the ‘Pittsburgh Post-Gazette’ after the newspaper rejected a number of cartoons critical of Donald Trump’s presidential policies.WHAT’S FALSERogers’ firing wasn’t based on one […]
The press has had a field day pumping the news that a publisher’s firing of a political cartoonist in Pittsburgh is a sign of President Trump’s war on freedom of the press. It’s nonsense. above image via KDKAMonica Showalter at The American Thinker takes a contrarian viewpoint to the cartoonist firing.
“Kurt Vonnegut once compared the artist to the canary in the coal mine, a hypersensitive creature who alerts hardier life forms to toxic gases by kindly dropping dead. Given the steady demise of editorial cartoonists during the past several years, newspapers might begin to wonder about the quality of the air.” – Doug Marlette After […]
Rob has confirmed that he will continue to draw editorial cartoons for syndication and GoComics.Rob reports from Twitter:@Rob_Rogers Sad to report this update: Today, after 25 years as the editorial cartoonist for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, I was fired. The Daily Cartoonist and GoComics are owned by Andrews McMeel Universal.
To celebrate President Trump’s birthday Steve Brodner and The Village Voice present: A Cartoon History of Trumps, 1869-2018 1. Friedrich Trump is born in Kallstadt, in what was then Bavaria. At the age of thirteen he is apprenticed to a barber. He later leaves for Bremen, and in 1885, at sixteen, departs for New York […]
For more than 100 years, Cleveland has been a hub for artists wishing to express themselves in the form of editorial cartoons. We’ve collected cartoons, sketches and original drawings from artists Bill Watterson, Willard Combes, Roy Groves, Jim Herron and Ray Osrin.Cleveland.com presents a century of Cleveland editorial cartoonists, with nearly 20 from the 1980s […]
A Letter Cartoon What the Hell Is This Anyway? to the Editor Seattle area cartoonist Gordon Anderson sends illustrated letters to the editor of The Stranger. Spiked Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Cartoonist Speaks Out. Rob Rogers talks to Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting.Rogers told FAIR he believed the publishing of Tuesday’s [June 12] cartoon created an illusion of […]
Talking with the legendary Voice cartoonist about characters who were born in the Fifties, lived through the Eighties, and are still kicking today. [R. C. Baker] sat down with the octogenarian artist and writer to discuss, among many other things, his screenplay for the new movie Bernard and Huey, directed by Dan Mirvish. Feiffer’s inaugural […]
The American Association of Editorial Cartoonists will hold their 2018 Convention in Sacramento from September 20 – 23. Last year Pat Bagley drew the short straw so, as AAEC President, Pat gets to plan this year’s festivities.There will be the usual assortment of panels, lectures, seminars, and such. Among topics for convention dicussion mentioned in […]
Updated June 11The Columbia Journalism Review is reporting on the controversy:Rogers took some time off from the Post-Gazette, but said he hopes to return to work this week. “I plan to draw the best work I can draw and submit it with the intention of getting it in the paper,” he says. “I know what […]
CNN interviewed Pittsburgh Post-Gazette cartoonist Rob Rogers to discuss the paper’s recent decisions not to run Rob’s work.https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2018/06/06/cartoonist-anti-trump-sketches-cut-from-paper-tapper-lead.cnn