Gannett (previously Gatehouse) is shutting down their newspaper content offering More Content Now. More Content Now is closing operations on May 31, 2021. We have enjoyed working with you these past nine years and are so grateful you found our work of value. From 2013 is the introduction to the service: GateHouse Media, Inc., a […]
Walt Handelsman (AMS) has what appears to be the best take on the revelation that the coronavirus is more likely to have escaped from a laboratory than, as the Chinese government had originally contended, been a spontaneous crossover from China’s bushmeat markets.It’s possible that the virus was developed in the lab. It’s also possible that […]
Politico interviewed Matt Wuerker about the Bill Bramhall cartoon commotion. Suggesting that people are overreacting to the cartoon and taking it out of context (it’s about being a New Yorker, not an Asian), Matt Wuerker discusses the undeniable racism in the history of political cartoons but sees the Bramhall cartoon as being misinterpreted. “The cartoon is […]
Bill Bramhall, editorial cartoonist for the New York Daily News, is being called out for a racist cartoon about New York City mayoral candidate Andrew Yang. Chief among those decrying the cartoon are Evelyn Yang, wife of the candidate, and the Asian American and Pacific Islanders Victory Alliance.From Evelyn Yang’s Twitter account:From the Daily Mail:The […]
Being ADD is either a disability or a great advantage, depending on severity and other talents. A lot of ADD people pop up in emergency services, because they do their best work, as someone put it, “when the world is moving at my pace.”It’s also a potential benefit for newspaper reporters because the combination of […]
Cartoonist, editorial and otherwise, Tim Campbell created a tutorial of sorts to help middle school students and their teachers and parents understand the effects the Covid pandemic has had on Junior High School kids and their education, both in person and distance learning. Current Publishing cartoonist Tim Campbell seeks … to help readers understand how […]
The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest is certainly the most famous and popular of the current You-Write-the-Gag exercises. So popular it has birthed a book, a game, and winners become news stories for their local newspapers.Cartoon Collections runs the similar idea. So similar it uses New Yorker cartoonists to supply the drawings. This is a […]
Ward Sutton admits he drew this some time ago and it languished in the files at the NYTimes Review of Books until this week, but even if the concept is evergreen, I’d call the application of it now timely.Not that I look to the NYTimes for intelligent analysis of graphic commentary. I don’t boycott the […]
The Metter (Georgia) Advertiser welcomed back editorial cartoonist Gary Jarrell after Gary was wandering the world outside the newspaper for nearly 40 years. Well, not really wandering. This week, we welcome back former editorial cartoonist Gary Jarrell, who served The Metter Advertiser in this capacity from 1979 to 1984. Jarrell worked for Piggly Wiggly in […]
We’ll end the week with a bit of politics, as Gary Clement (Cartoon Arts) hits with one of the first cartoons to shift from war to cease-fire in the Middle East.I found it particularly interesting because I stumbled onto the press conference the White House scheduled with the President Biden and South Korean President Moon […]
If mockery could solve our problems, we’d have no problems at all. And then the political cartoonists would all be out of business.I suppose this Rob Rogers piece won’t change the minds of the nincompoops who nod along with Rep. Andrew Clyde’s claim that the January 6 rioters were simply a group of peaceful tourists.But […]
Announcing the 2021 Davenport International Cartoon Contest! Anyone may enter the contest. Grand Prize: $750 * First: $500 * Second: $300 * Third: $200 * (5) People’s Choice: Ribbon The entry fee is $25.00 (US Dollars), for each cartoon entered. Subject: Contemporary political, economic and social ideas of interest; an “Editorial Cartoon.” Your entry must […]
Clay Jones used his Twitter account to let his Facebook followers know that he had been suspended because the Facebook Artificial Intelligence doesn’t recognize satire and humor. Clay Jones’ Facebook account was back on the streets this morning.
Let me start the day by declaring that I don’t like most of these cartoons very much, but it’s not my job to like cartoons.Ed Hall’s take offers a good starting point, however, and it’s also not his job to be liked.This is a play on sentiment, dead children being an obvious tug at the […]
This is hardly new: It’s an illustration from a 1903 book of nursery rhymes by Charles Robinson, who did much more elaborate work elsewhere and go have a look, because it will be worth your while though you can also read that nursery rhyme book here.As with most nursery rhymes, there are a kabillion interpretations of […]