The weekly Alexandria Times, based just a few miles from Capitol Hill, has decided it will no longer print editorial cartoons about national issues: The start of a new year brings new beginnings. Individuals make resolutions. Companies plan ahead. Changes are made… There are exciting new beginnings at the Times as well. The most immediately […]
I was almost tempted to simply post Marco De Angelis (Cartoon Movement)‘s cartoon and leave it at that.But I can’t demand cartoonists step up if I fail to.Cartoonists faced a challenge yesterday. The riots called for a quick response and the quick response was “stunned,” which is not an answer. The standard was set by — […]
Pros and Cons (KFS) has the funniest commentary on Trump’s phone call today, except that it’s not, having been drawn I dunno how long ago and Kieran Meehan not being, AFAIK, psychic.But I’m giving him credit for the laugh anyway, if only by default.We covered the phone call yesterday and if you’re going to chime […]
I couldn’t decide where to start this morning until I had settled on the headline, at which point it made sense to start here: Put up or shut up, Steve Kelley (Creators.)Show your evidence of fraud and illegality. Seriously. Do it.While you’re at it, explain why experienced attorneys and professional politicians who wanted to challenge […]
Beginning the week of January 3, 2020 editorial cartoonist Nick Anderson will move the distribution of his syndicated work from the blowhard city’s Washington Post Writers Group to the windy city’s Tribune Content Agency. Pulitzer Prize winner Nick Anderson joins Tribune Content Agency’s Editorial Cartoon Service in January 2021. Anderson joins an esteemed collection of […]
As of January 1, 2021 most everything from 1925 entered public domain status. While that Duke University links focuses on some lesser works, we will turn our attention to more important literature that is now available after the Walt Disney Extension.Among the more well-known comics that started in 1925, and whose first year is now […]
If Ionesco or Becket were writing “The Comic Strip That Has A Finale Every Day,” this Frazz (AMS) would be the one to endlessly cycle, it being more absurd than dadaesque.Or, at least, it would become absurd if you simply kept cycling it. As it is, it speaks for the prevailing mood, which is that […]
This is an installment of 2020 Newspaper Comics: Debuts, Departures, and the Dearly Departed.(part 1: Debuts – – part 2: Departures – – part 3: Dearly Departed – – part 4: Detours/Deviations) 2020 – The Dearly DepartedThese U. S. newspaper and magazine cartoonists died in 2020.© Sam Wyche & J. D. CroweSAMUEL DAVID (SAM) WYCHEJanuary 5, […]
Political and magazine cartoonist Ken Mahood has passed away.Kenneth B. (Ken) MahoodFebruary 4, 1930 – December 30, 2020The Daily Mail is reporting the death of Ken Mahood: He passed away peacefully in St Thomas’ Hospital in London on Wednesday. Moving tributes were paid yesterday to the brilliant and charismatic former Mail cartoonist Ken Mahood, who […]
Can’t accuse Tim Campbell (WPWG) of sugar-coating things.Granted, we’ve got vaccines now, but even if everyone got them, it would be late spring before we could safely unmask. And given the number of delusional nitwits amongst us, it probably won’t happen that quickly.I was looking around the grocery store the other day. We’re polite people […]
Over 1200 pages long with more than 1200 new entries, this is a bibliography of articles and books on all aspects of comic and cartoon art including comic books, comic strips, cartoons, animation, editorial cartoons, newly updated as of the end of 2018. The electronic book, a non DRM PDF, includes tens of thousands of […]
There isn’t much to say about Mitch McConnell, and Ann Telnaes (WashPost) appears to have said it all right here.Of course, the ball is still in play, and let’s all admit we didn’t expect the House to come up with a 2/3’s majority to get that $2,000 check back on the field.Nothing is dead until […]
Billy Penn informs Philadelphians about area news, and the big news in Philadelphia these days is Signe Wilkinson‘s retirement. Pulitzer Prize-winning political cartoonist Signe Wilkinson is retiring from the Philadelphia Inquirer at the end of the year, where she spent three decades chronicling the city’s woes, lambasting its leaders, and celebrating its victories. The local […]
Part Two of The Best Editorial Cartoons of 2020.Possibly the most famous cartoon of 2020 is by Mike Luckovich, who provides a brief commentary for each of the Atlanta Journal Constitution editorial cartoons he picks as his best. From USA Today: This week, we are featuring 2020 retrospectives by editorial cartoonists from across the USA TODAY […]
(Pia Guerra – The Nib)(Benjamin Slyngstad)I’m starting with a Juxtaposition because I don’t want to single out a particular cartoonist and there have been more than one who have, apparently, jumped to conclusions regarding the Nashville bomber.Or, at the best, commented on those conclusions, which are being leapt to full-force on social media.First of all, […]