Who would you choose as the greatest editorial cartoonist of all time? James Gillray? Thomas Nast? Robert Minor? Paul Conrad? Last week David Von Drehle writing for The Washington Post made The Case for Pat Oliphant (or here). There are many forms and expressions of greatness — not one GOAT, but herds of GOATs; nevertheless, […]
Nothing grabs public attention like poop, and there have been a whole lot of cartoons showing Uncle Sam or Liberty or Donald J. on the toilet. The source of all this is interesting, because it’s a parasite rather than a bacterial outbreak, and I heard an interesting conversation about it on 1A, but it seems […]
“Certain rights and privileges, we say, are only for certain people. This is but half true. Privileges are always for certain people. Rights are for everybody, otherwise they, too, become privileges and nobody has any rights.” Walt Kelly, The Right Freedom for The Right People, in the Right Place, at the Right Time Steven Heller […]
The art of war is of vital importance to the State. It is a matter of life and death, a road either to safety or to ruin. — Sun TzuSome follow Sun Tzu, some read von Clausewitz, the best study both. And then there’s Pete Hegseth, who apparently follows gladiator and kung-fu movies and, as Anderson suggests, […]
Editorial cartoonist Jeff Koterba is co-producing an “adult-leaning” animated series called Bunny and Bear based on a comic strip idea he came up with during the pandemic. His co-producers include screen writer Christine Burright, and animator and improv comedian Matt Geiler. All three, along with voice talent, are based in Omaha.The project started with Jeffrey […]
Profiling Florida cartoonist Ron Bates, Matt Wuerker and Kevin ‘KAL’ Kallaugher and The Founding Fathers, and Pedro X. Molina on the state of the art he is proudly a part. Ron Bates Nicole Stitz for The Port Charlotte Sun profiles Ron Bates a muralist, set designer, commercial artist, illustrator and, once he moved to Florida, […]
First Dog reminds us that Big Brother isn’t the only one watching, and he’s not making up that bit about self-driving cars, because a Waymo taxi snitched on some drunken teenagers who were shooting plastic pellets out its windows.Which is one of those things where maybe it’s good that kids can’t get away with anything […]
President Trump’s speech last week has drawn poor reviews, which is an unusual response to presidential addresses, though in this case, the message was so clearly partisan that ABC and NBC declined to cover it except on their online news channels, and CBS and even Fox cut away and downplayed it when it became obvious […]
The United Kingdom will soon have a new Prime Minister so Jason Arunn Murugesu at the BBC went to award winning political cartoonist Graeme Bandeira to talk about caricaturing the new PM. Grame spoke to Burnham’s physical characteristics and cartooning politicians in general. A political cartoonist has said he is looking forward to spending more […]
I don’t know that people overseas have a clearer view of our situation, but perhaps it’s easier to laugh at existential dread when you’re observing from afar. Not that there isn’t concern about the effects, because what happens in the United States certainly doesn’t stay in the United States, but what distance there is between […]
For reasons unexplained (greed?) Lee Enterprises is insisting on unheard of compensation from any library that will accept David Fitzsimmons’ editorial cartoons archive. From David Fitzsimmons Substack comes the details: For years, Lee Publishing, owner of The Arizona Daily Star, has been blocking me from donating my professional life’s work to my hometown Alma mater, […]
The death of Pat Oliphant brought immediate tributes from friends and colleagues. Those very early first responses have been followed with an astounding amount of words or pictures or both honoring the master of editorial cartooning. An outpouring of respect, appreciation, and love unseen since the passing of Charles Schulz. Michael de Adder brought a […]
The level of exaggeration in German’s cartoon depends on where you live. In some parts of the Northeast US, the skies really have reached a level of orange haze through which a blood-red sun could barely peek. In others, the smoke from Canadian wildfires is less visible, but that doesn’t make it less evident in […]
Rowe once more takes advantage of the time difference between here and Australia to respond to late-breaking news. I don’t imagine many American newspapers will have responses to last night’s speech, either in the form of political cartoons or editorials because most of them go to press about the time Trump was on the air.Print […]
Propaganda, Cancel Culture, Public Service, Public Remonstration, Cartoons and Cartoonists. Agitprop Animation Members of Parliment are warning of youngsters being victims of propaganda with the animated Masha and the Bear, a Russian animated cartoon aimed at pre-school children. George Francis Lee for The Guardian reminds us that there is a history of animated evangelism. Cartoons […]