Cartoonists are keeping busy with fun, health, and charity. The Seattle Times and cartoonist David Horsey offer downloadable bears to color. KBIR Knoxville checks in with 90 year old Charlie Daniel while he shelters in place.“I was beginning really to enjoy retirement. I was meeting with people for lunch every day and meeting old journalist […]
Joy of Tech has me nailed fairly well.Their site is currently polling visitors to ask how much their lives have changed and I ticked the box for “It’s different, but not that different.”I haven’t done a videochat in a couple of years and never even bothered to mount Skype on my last several computers, while […]
Below are some comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for April 2020 release. Images and links (mostly) via Amazon, though ordering through your local comic or independent book store is a good idea. Addams’ Apple: The New York Cartoons of Charles Addams Ed Leffingwell’s Little Joe by Harold Gray Nat Enough I Think He’s Crazy […]
I’ll start with the above Dunkin’ Donuts commercial for the benefit of readers either too young or living too distant from these shores to catch the reference.Today’s headline is a portmanteau of that commercial along with the well-known wisecrack that one should not watch the making of laws or the making of sausage.I can attest […]
Earlier this year Lee Enterprises bought The Buffalo News and the BH Group. That purchase became final in mid-March 2020, two weeks later Lee Enterprises announced there would be a series of pay cuts, lay-offs, and furloughs across its chain. Yesterday it hit home as The Buffalo News’ Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Adam Zyglis announced he […]
Jeff Danziger is correct: Lousy policy and foolish choices are making things worse, and hence killing people, in the current crisis. And Stuart Carlson correctly casts Donald Trump in the role of Lady Macbeth, unable to get the guilt off his hands, though he seems a bit premature in that Trump has not yet hit her […]
Doug Turnbull, For the Atlanta Journal Constitution:As the years pass — now there have been six — since 95.5 WSB traffic-reporting legend Captain Herb Emory’s tragic death, the remembrances of his life are as poignant as the memories during his philanthropic, larger-than-most-of-ours life. Certain phone calls and messages received still materialize in the brain with the […]
An Easter to remember, and Signe Wilkinson sets the stage.The people, I would note, appear to be getting a bit grumpy.We were all willing to pull together for a couple of days, even a couple of weeks, but that sense of national purpose seems to wearing a bit thin, as we’ve reached the point where […]
Announcement of the Pulitzer Prize winners and finalists, traditionally released on the third Monday of April, has been delayed two weeks.The Pulitzer Prize Board has decided to postpone the 2020 award winners’ announcement. Originally scheduled for Monday, April 20, 2020, the Prizes in Journalism, Books, Drama and Music now will be announced on Monday, May […]
Kevin Siers bids an affectionate farewell to the Sanders campaign, with a cartoon that evokes dreaming the impossible dream but also Dr. Johnson’s compliment of the novel:Was there ever yet anything written by mere man that was wished longer by its readers, excepting Don Quixote, Robinson Crusoe, and the Pilgrim’s Progress?You could find elements of […]
The Press Club of Atlantic City has announced the winners of the 2020 National Headliner Awards.Michael Ramirez has won the 2020 Headliner Award for Editorial Cartoons. From the announcement:First Place Michael Ramirez Las Vegas Review Journal Judges’ comments: Sharp, sophisticated, daring. Michael Ramirez skewers the pompous and defends the vulnerable. Excellent work.Also recognized:Second Place Clay […]
There is humor to be found in any crisis, and Jeff Stahler taps into one of the better TV commercials to come along in awhile.That elevates a so-what gag about people working from home in their undies into a much better piece, because, first of all, it ties into something not just familiar but well-liked, […]
Editorial cartoonist Samuel Joyner has passed away.Samuel R. (Sam) Joyner February 7, 1924 – March 24, 2020editorial cartoonist, illustrator, comics historian From the Philadelphia Tribune obituary:Often described as the visual voice for African Americans that was represented in mass-circulated magazines and newspapers, Joyner had a storied career as a teacher, cartoonist and illustrator since the 1940s.Throughout […]
The enduring quote from “The Caine Mutiny” is one character’s observation that “The Navy is a master plan designed by geniuses for execution by idiots.”But there’s another saying, this one of uncertain origin, that goes “Every time you think you’ve made something foolproof, they invent a better fool.”Hence Nick Anderson‘s cartoon, comparing policies in one […]
F-Minus gives a pretty good overview, not of how I feel, but of why.Facebook, and to a lesser extent Twitter, have always been full of people whinging about this or that, and looking for allies over silly things nobody else frets over, and announcing nincompooperies they are convinced are breakthroughs.But never so much as now, […]