On Monday, Dec. 13, the Pritzker Military Museum & Library in downtown Chicago launched a virtual experience of its popular museum exhibit: “Drawn to Combat: Bill Mauldin and the Art of War.” The live exhibit, currently on display at the museum through April 2022, features nearly 150 of the Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist’s original drawings and […]
Non Sequitur (AMS) addresses the crucial question of life on Earth being obliterated by a meteor, the odds of which, I would note, have not changed simply because we are better at tracking space objects. Though they may become slightly lower, since we’re working on ways of dealing with it.Not that we haven’t been thunked […]
Gannett has begun their 2021 political cartooning year in review series and they have begun with Nathan Archer toons from The Tallahassee Democrat. © Tallahassee Democrat/Nathan Archer
Marc Murphy warns that it is late, though perhaps not too late.But it is certainly too late to sit and watch and wonder and hope.Like the man in the joke, God has sent us a canoe, a rowboat and even a helicopter, yet here we are, sitting on the roof watching the waters rise and […]
Pat Bagley has been sketching political cartoons at the Salt Lake Tribune since 1979. That makes him… “the longest continuously employed full-time editorial cartoonist in America” (beating out Steve Sack of The Minneapolis Star Tribune).Jeff Tiberii of North Carolina Public Radio station WUNC goes long distance to talk with Utah’s Salt Lake Tribune editorial cartoonist […]
Ellwood Atfield, the communications and advocacy headhunter, was delighted to host again the Political Cartoon of the Year Awards. We are delighted to announce the 2021 winning Political, Pocket and COVID Cartoons and Cartoonist’s. The winners for this British award were announced December 9, 2021. The Low Trophy for the Political Cartoonist of the YearBen Jennings […]
Tom Tomorrow lays out the State of the Union, and it’s good that he goes into such detail, because a large number of cartoonists are either going into end-of-the-year round-up holiday mode or else pointing out that tornadoes are sad, leaving a reduced number of watchdogs at the gates.The destruction in Kentucky is indeed unfortunate, […]
As we pull within two weeks of Christmas, Ben (MWAM) threatens his wife, and us, with a series of excruciating puns to fill the days, and I hope he follows through. The funny pages are so flooded with bad takeoffs on Christmas carols each year that it’s a relief when one of them confesses to […]
I was recently reminded that Allan Holtz’s annotations to George McManus’s Bringing Up Father (Forever Nuts edition) was put on the internet for all to read, and that the remarks remain available.There are many things going on in these nearly century-old Bringing Up Father comic strips which may be incomprehensible to the average reader of […]
My first impression of this Steve Breen (Creators) piece was that he obviously hadn’t read up on the particular level of sanctions which Biden apparently proposed, should Putin (further) invade Ukraine.As noted here (and in the general news coverage), it’s not just the type of sanctions against individual oligarchs that Obama invoked in Putin’s initial […]
Bad Reporter cartoonist Don Asmussen has passed away. Donald Alan (Don) Asmussen October 31, 1962 – December 9, 2021Don has been fighting cancer for a few years, a battle he lost yesterday.John Backderf has informed us of the sad news. The San Francisco Chronicle has published a notice: Don’s loss is absolutely devastating,” said Chronicle […]
(Dr. Macleod)(Jeremy Banx)Two threads in this particular Juxtaposition: The backgrounder is the current dustup in the UK about Boris Johnson locking everyone down and then allowing his own staff to hold a Christmas party last year at 10 Downing Street. It was revealed, apparently, in a wonderfully foolish cock-up when the Prime Minister’s new PR person […]
Pearls Before Swine (AMS) sets the mood for the day. Rat seems to have caught on to the fact that confrontation simply doesn’t work in a world in which team loyalty is more important than logic. Pat Byrnes (Cagle) is right: The current crop of Republicans would absolutely reject Abraham Lincoln’s stances, though they’re proud to […]
Yeah, I know what you’re thinking, “Cartoonists Run Amok,” is SOP.But this is an exhibit and greet & meet by NCS members of the Philadelphia Chapter Friday December 10 from 5–8:30pm, check out the National Cartoonists Society of Philadelphia’s gallery opening, curated by Moore’s own adjunct professor Andrea Beizer! Exhibit and sale of toons by […]
Stuart Carlson (AMS) offers a pun which I suspect is more about unavailable and late-arriving Christmas presents than about World Peace, but Jacob Marley’s regret can cover both topics, particularly if we get away from the specific notion of importing goods and focus, instead, on Marley weighed down by his voluntarily assumed burdens.And note that, […]