I’m going to have to be frugal with cartoons this coming week, given that most are either Halloween gags, which will become obsolete after tomorrow, or election cartoons, which will stop being pertinent after Tuesday. (Update: I can’t read a calendar. See comments.)Kevin Kallaugher combines the two in a way that works well today, because […]
Grotesquerie is Kevin “Kal” Kallaugher’s bread and butter. For fifty years the cartoonist has rendered newsmakers in a fleshy museum of knobbly noses, splayed teeth, dewlaps, wattles, and vast foreheads. He’s produced some 10,000 cartoons for the Baltimore Sun and The Economist—in 1978 he became the first cartoonist hired by the latter—and his work is […]
An article takes time to read, but a picture speaks to us instantly. In the 18th century, William Hogarth campaigned pictorially against idleness, cruelty and drink and Thomas Rowlandson invented comical strips. But it was after 1805, when James Gillray depicted a small, ravening Napoleon carving up the world with William Pitt, that the cartoon […]
First, “He Who Must Be Dealt With,” and Ben Jennings bursts through the crowd of Musk-Freeing-Trump and Musk-Weaponizing-Twitter cartoons with this reminder that having a lot of money and getting a lot of attention doesn’t necessary translate into having a lot of judgment.As noted here yesterday, one doesn’t just walk in and fire everyone who […]
Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you. — Friedrich NietzscheOur top story today, at least judging from social media, is Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter, and, as seen in […]
The death of print editorial cartoons is a worldwide phenomena. Online platforms are full of editorial cartoons… the era of newspaper cartooning is over. Indian editorial cartooning has entered the world of online platforms. © Sorit GuptoSorit Gupto‘s essay on the state on the editorial cartoon in India. [Sometime] in the early 90s. There was […]
As we come within two weeks of the midterms, Paul Berge riffs on GEICO’s riff on cheesy horror movies to show where we stand.It’s funny as a riff on cheesy horror movies, less so as a riff on a cheesy electorate, but he’s right: The right-wing media bubble has been effective enough that those in […]
Editorial cartoonist Pascal Élie has passed away. Pascal Élie 1959 – October 21, 2022 From Terry Mosher and The Montreal Gazette:My friend Pascal Élie, editorial cartoonist for Le Devoir, died at 63 last week after struggling with a debilitating disease diagnosed when he was only 49. Always the professional, Pascal supplied cartoons for the newspaper […]
Chris Britt (Counterpoint) starts us off with a look into the Republicans’ Halloween House of Terror, decorated in keeping with the historic framework of the past six years, tying in the GOP’s alliances with Q-Anon, their reluctance to denounce tiki-torch bearing Anti-Semitic neo-nazis, their ammosexual fetishes, their opposition to safe medical abortions and their ever-present […]
Cartooning doesn’t have a lot of rules, but “If you thought of it fast, so did everyone else” is pretty reliable.Be glad I didn’t do this with all the corgi cartoons that followed QEII’s death. And that, over at Drawing Fire, Clay Jones compressed the gas-pump-snake cartoons into a single piece. Can’t we talk about something a […]
Editorial cartoonist Dennis Renault has passed away. Dennis Julian Renault August 23, 1936 – October 19, 2022 The Sacramento Bee is reporting that Dennis Renault has died in an accident near his Monterey County home.Via AOL News, which ran the SacBee’s cartoon gallery accompanying the obituary notice: Dennis Renault was The Sacramento Bee’s political cartoonist […]
We’ll start the day with a little crossover from the funny pages, because Snuffy Smith (KFS) sets the tone for a discussion of spin, lies and foolish belief, and I like Snuffy’s contention that it’s an issue of good judgement.There is genuine dishonesty, of course, but there is also genuine stupidity and genuine self-deception, and […]
I’m so old that, when I saw today’s Pooch Cafe, I thought, “Well, there’s a cartoon that appeals to the young folks.” Then I realized that the little kids I took to see Tron are now 46 and 50 respectively.Even at 6 and 10, I don’t think they took the film seriously, but we really […]
The North Dakota Forum editorial cartoonist Steve Stark is retiring after 34 years. From InForum’s profile: Steve Stark was an early cartoonist while a student at NDSU on The Spectrum student newspaper in the 1970s. Later, Steve began his editorial cartooning in earnest at the Lake County News Chronicle, a weekly newspaper in Two Harbors, Minn. […]
Well, that didn’t take long, though, as one wag noted on social media, Liz Truss served two monarchs.Still, as Ben Jennings depicts it, she was tossed out like yesterday’s trash after 44 days. Even poor Ann Boleyn managed to stick for 1,000. Juxtaposition of Juxtapositions(David Rowe)(Matt Golding)Rowe and Golding chimed in from Australia with a pair […]