The Benito Beet Beat Facebook page has won the right to post anonymous cartoons criticizing the local government. From sanbenito.com: San Benito County and the First Amendment Coalition reached a settlement in a case involving a social media page that posted content that was allegedly threatening toward local officials and their families. Under the settlement, […]
Dennis Green is gone, but his rant lives on, not because it applied to a football game, but because it continues to apply to people who look a threat straight in the eye and decide not to see it.Green said what he should have said, but that’s what nobody ever says because we’d rather be […]
It’s that time of year when The Bests of 2025 starts making their appearances, and first out of the starting blocks is Roll Call’s political cartoonist R. J. Matson.Some subjects seem to be evergreens, at least for the duration of the current administration. ‘Cap’-py days are here again — Capitol Ink’s best of 2025 Roll […]
Golding offers a Banksyesque tribute to Australia’s new age limitations on social media. The first thing to note is that kids under 16 are not being banned from going on-line. Rather, as of Wednesday, they’re banned from accessing 10 social media platforms: Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Snapchat, X (formerly Twitter), YouTube, Reddit, Twitch, Kick and Threads.Which is […]
Wages of Sin cartoonist Keith Brown has passed away. Keith Edward Brown March 19, 1963 – December 10, 2025The family has notified friends and fans through social media that Keith Brown has passed: It breaks my heart to have to post this today. But my loving and wonderful husband Keith has passed. Keith’s career as […]
Art Spiegelman and Joe Sacco‘s Never Again!..And Again…And Again…And Again three page graphic documentary on the Gaza tragedy issued earlier in 2025 will go on exhibition in Paris with the original art and preliminary drawing to sold with moneys going to UNICEF for the aid on the ground to Palestinian children.From La Galerie Martel Paris […]
It happens, and I’m leading off with Clay Jones’ version because he acknowledged what is known in the trade as a “Yahtzee.” I hate it when another cartoonist does the same idea that I draw, but honestly, this one doesn’t surprise me, as this might be an obvious joke. Oh well. If similar cartoons drop within […]
In case you missed it, the world has shifted, and, as Eliot predicted, not with a bang, but a whimper. A bang you would have noticed, and perhaps resisted. A whimper sneaks up, and yet, once it is in place, you wonder how you could have missed it before. Or perhaps you don’t, which is […]
Dr. Bruce MacKinnon Editorial cartoonist Bruce MacKinnon joins a small group in the cartooning community who can legitimately put the honorific “Dr.” before his name.From St. Francis Xavier University and Education News Canada: St. Francis Xavier University graduated nearly 300 students during its Fall Convocation 2025 today. Bruce MacKinnon, one of Canada’s foremost editorial cartoonists, […]
An expression emerged during Watergate that it wasn’t the crime but the cover-up that doomed Nixon. It mostly came from his defenders, who envisioned a wall between the burglary at the Watergate and everything that followed, with an innocent president drawn into the cover-up of a crime he hadn’t known was happening.Tapes and testimony showed […]
I don’t know that stupidity always wins, but I do know it has the inside track. The fad of biting into detergent pods passed by quickly, but it did happen and was quite a tribute to peer pressure and general idiocy.OTOH, looking back on my own misspent youth, I don’t picture 10 kids standing around […]
It’s that time of the year again, Thanksgiving is over and all of your Christmas/Hanukah shopping is done, the only thing left to do, other than drawings your daily editorial cartoons, is to go through your 2025 archives and decide which ones should be sent for consideration to the various award committees.Here is a list […]
In case you missed it, and particularly if you didn’t, FIFA has capitalized on the clear path to success in the United States. On the eve of the World Cup tournament, they guaranteed something or other by creating a gaudy, ridiculous “Peace Prize” and awarding it to Dear Leader, whose country will be co-hosting the […]
Editorial cartoonist, sculptor, and painter Ken Crook has passed away. Kenneth Erle (Ken) Crook July 13, 1929 – November 30, 2025Carl MacGowan at Newsday is reporting the death of their former editorial cartoonist Ken Crook (or here): Kenneth Crook, who drew cartoons for Newsday for more than a decade before leaving in 1970 to pursue a […]
Editorial cartoonist Walt Handelsman has announced through his newspaper that he will retire at the end of this year after a nearly forty-five year career. From Kieth Spera at The Times-Picayune: Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist Walt Handelsman is putting away his pen and ink after decades of delighting Louisiana with his alternately humorous and poignant […]