Okay, it wasn’t a wrap. It was a sub or, as it’s called in some places, a hoagie or grinder. But Huck gets the prize for using another alternative term — “hero” — and not only doing so, but posting this after the trial began but before the jury declined to convict. The latest defeat […]
SACRAMENTO — California Governor Gavin Newsom is facing a wave of criticism after the official press account for the governor posted an AI-generated cartoon showing White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller leading former President Donald Trump on a leash. International Jewish News reports: Conservative commentators and several Republican officials said the cartoon trafficked […]
The Failure of G. B. Trudeau My childhood dream, like the popularity of print newspapers, inevitably faded. I had long been bewitched by the comics pages folded into each edition of the Times-Picayune, the newspaper with which I grew up in my suburb of New Orleans. The pages stood out because of the implicit respect […]
President Trump this morning posted a cartoon firing Fed Chairman Jerome Powell. From CNBC: As CNBC points out, “The image appears to be “AI-generated or digitally illustrated,” according to visual analysis by ChatGPT.” No one seems to know if this is real or just a fantasy. Earlier in the day Trump posted an ai generated […]
Cartoon Commentary Steve May reacts to his first whiff of the new “Cartoonist” fragrance from Esquire and Michael Malul. A Man of Many Talents Dave Brown, long time cartoonist for The Independent, has the touch in other arts as witnessed by his win of the Sculpture/3D Prize at the Broadway Arts Festival Open Art Competition […]
NEW YORK (PIX11) — New York City Mayor Eric Adams took jabs at Mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani in a political cartoon posted on his X account Saturday evening. Matthew Euzarraga for PIX11 reports that NYC Mayor Eric Adams and his team has posted a (what looks to be an AI generated Joseph Nebus, below, has […]
Items from here and there and everywhere about this and that and the other: Artificial Intelligence; 2024’s best selling graphic novel; editorial cartoon contest for high schoolers; Al Roker animated; street fighting cartoonist; media compliance; protecting the children (from sex). AI-eee! AI “art” is already encroaching on our comics spaces. There have been allegations of […]
A cartoonist roundup with Hilary Price, Sean Campbell, Alex Hallatt, Jason Chatfield, Edward Sorel, Sam Ingwersen, Raina Telgemeier, Liza Donnelly, and Glenn McCoy How Hilary Price Spent Her Summer Vacation Hilary Price occasionally (this is the first since Spring) posts something to her Rhymes With Orange Substack. Recently she posted about trying out various AI […]
As artificial intelligence infiltrates virtually every aspect of modern life, I had assumed, completely incorrectly, that editorial cartooning was probably more or less immune. Earlier this year, however, I got a rude wake-up call. Several editorial cartoonists first sent me a set of cartoons by Pedro Molina and Rick McKee that had been run through […]
There she was: a woman in a pose that suggested she was either about to sell me shoes or ask me to subscribe to her OnlyFans. Her legs spread in a way that made me wonder if Skechers had pivoted from athletic footwear to gynaecological equipment. The shoes—ostensibly the point of the advertisement—were an afterthought. […]
A local news website run by a disgraced former state lawmaker who has faced child sex charges and espoused racist views is taking fire for posting racist AI-generated cartoons aimed at a Republican state lawmaker. Prescott eNews, which covers news in Prescott [Arizona] and the surrounding communities in Yavapai County, is facing pointed criticism for […]
Shefali Rekhi considers the problems facing cartoonists in Singapore and includes a brief history of cartooning and their colonial roots as seen in The Straits Times. And the international syndication of American comic strips are also a part of the discussion: Also brought to attention is the worldwide problem of digital media vis-a-vis editorial cartooning: […]
Some items tangentially connected to our mission: new Washington Post opinion page editor; Patreon takes a bigger piece of the pie; Animation Guilds protest AI generated art; Triple A baseball runs a Peanuts promotion. The Washington Post Gets New Opinion Section Editor From Politico: The Washington Post has its new opinion editor, the publication announced […]
Ann Telnaes originally posted this a year ago, but brought it back recently to comment on the flourishing of AI. Then someone re-posted this segment with a link to the full piece: That fragment zeros in on the main problem with AI. Whether it’s graphic art, writing, music or whatever, the essence of art is […]