Older people shouldn’t fret over the ACA, since they’ve got Medicare, but don’t put those paddles down yet.I got an email October 24 from Social Security suggesting I log on and see my new rates, so I logged on and was told they didn’t have them yet. Then, on the 31st, they announced that they […]
I agree with Kelley so rarely that it’s only fair to let him start off this post-Thanksgiving edition.He’s right. If Democrats said to do those things, it wouldn’t give you permission, though if you wanted to import 400 tons of cocaine into the US, the president might pardon you as a good guy. But if […]
Kallaugher and Horsey on Editorial CartooningTomorrow Kevin KAL Kallaugher and David Horsey chat about the State of the Art and Cartooning the State: We will have a fun and free-wheeling conversation about cartoons, politics, commentary and creativity. We will welcome comments and questions from listeners. Kal talks with two-time Pulitzer winning cartoonist and columnist David […]
$6 Dollars for 6 MonthsKing Features is playing Friday’s Child this weekend by giving a subscription bargain to their Comics Kingdom site. $6 dollars for 6 months! Scroll toward the bottom for the bargain. The NCS Gives Fair WarningThe National Cartoonists Society is giving advance notice that they will soon be opening the window for […]
I’d like to apologize to the world for somehow having exported Black Friday around the globe. There are a lot things we Americans could apologize for, though Dancing with the Stars was not our idea, nor was the Amazing Singing Head, another program I only know about because they run promos during more interesting things. […]
The 70th annual Walkley Awards for Excellence in Journalism was held on November 27, 2025 in Sydney. David Pope’s “Gaza” was awarded Cartoon of the Year at Australia’s national journalism awards.The Canberra Times noted Pope’s taking the honor for the third time (or here, kinda): David Pope and all the 2025 winners are listed at […]
Illustrating the Progress of Art in Journalism (1897)It started a few days ago when Tony Rose uncovered a startling item in an old Editor and Publisher.A 1925 obituary for Albert Wilbur Steele includes a claim that he was “the first American cartoonist to draw a daily cartoon for a newspaper.” Steele, who had worked on […]
I went looking for interesting Thanksgiving cartoons of the past but didn’t find much I hadn’t seen repeatedly since. But having praised big, wide newspapers yesterday, I got a kick out of this 1925 piece by Gluyas Williams. As for this year’s Thanksgiving, Tom Tomorrow offers a panoramic survey of the mess we’re in. It’s […]
Mark Schultz and Xenzoic Tales; the Tony Auth archives; comic strip writer Tom Sims honored; Jan Eliot interviewed about Stone Soup; and making a living at cartooning isn’t necessarily a pretty picture.Mark Schultz and Xenozoic Tales Prince Valiant writer Mark Schultz in interviewed about his early career when he created the Xenozoic Tales (aka Cadillacs […]
The deadline for teenagers to enter the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards may be as little as one week away. Though January 6, 2026 is the deadline for my Zip Code and probably yours.The Alliance for Young Artists & Writers in association with The Herblock Foundation is again offering “$2,000 scholarships for three teens whose […]
An easy choice for lead-off, given the serious nature of the issue and the joy of seeing Jones back in the saddle, though he’s far from over his stroke. But if the drawing hand still requires more focus and effort than before, his essay writing is as sharp as ever.Bok offers what I take as […]
“From the least of them to the greatest, all are greedy for gain; from prophet to priest, all practice deceit. They dress the wound of My people with very little care, saying, ‘Peace, peace,’ when there is no peace at all. Are they ashamed of the abomination they have committed? No, they have no shame at all; they do not even know how to blush.” […]
An(n) AwardAs reported earlier this month Ann Telnaes was to receive the 2025 William Randolph Hearst Award. And so she did. Ward Sutton posted a picture with Ann holding the award, with Mark Fiore also in attendance.Wuerker Related Also this month Mike Rhode visited editorial cartoonist Matt Wuerker and took a baker’s dozen of pics. […]
I got a laugh out of this, though my current dog is quite neat and would only have rumpled blankets, since she buries herself in them. But the timing is nice because it made me think about coming home from college for Thanksgiving, which I only did once.I came home completely changed and it was […]
This time of year invariably produces a flood of turkeys attempting to avoid the ax, but Hands breaks tradition and makes an actual point, based on Dear Leader’s pardoning of those who worked to overturn the legal results of the 2020 election, which matches the pardons he provided for the rioters who stormed the Capitol […]