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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 […]

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

Huffington Post UK is reporting that The Guardian has rejected a Steve Bell editorial cartoon, about the death of Palestinian medic Razan al-Najjar, as being anti-Semitic. Cartoonist Steve Bell denies using anti-Semitic tropes saying in a couple e-mails to the paper:“I cannot for the life of me begin to understand criticism of the cartoon that […]

Sports and political cartoonist and journalist Rob Tornoe, who also comments on the media, has an article for today’s (June 4) Philly.com/Philadelphia Inquirer with the latest on the Rob Rogers/Post-Gazette situation.The problems between Rogers and Burris date back to March, shortly after Burris first took over as the newspaper’s editorial director. On his Facebook page, […]

The Library of Congress’ Herblock Gallery is updated every six months. Recently Curator Sara W. Duke posted about the newest additions. From 50 years ago – the more things change… Last week this site informed about Image Comics’ coming Li’l Donnie collection. Now comes news that Image Comics will be collecting Pia Guerra’s political cartoons as […]

Subscription-list and nom de plume-trailblazer Ruben Bolling is to receive the 2018 RFK Journalism Award for his award-winning work on his award-winning “Tom the Dancing Bug” comic.The event is being held tonight at the Newseum in Washington, D.C.@RubenBolling@NewseumUpdate:Ruben Bolling’s RFK Journalism Award Photo © Bruce Guthrieand Ruben Bolling receiving his award from Kerry Kennedy Photo © Bruce […]

As mentioned here last week Glenn McCoy announced on his Facebook page 10 days ago that the Belleville News-Democrat had let him go. Among the messages of well-wshes Glenn let it be known that, while it was the newspaper that made the decision, he wasn’t terribly upset.“I think I’m going to focus on my animation […]