King Features wasn’t able to locate today’s “King of the Royal Mounted,” but a quick archival search brought it up at the Press-Democrat of Santa Rosa, not to be confused with Santa Rosita where detective work involves looking for buried treasure under a big W.So here it is and it turns out to be a […]
There’s enough going on that the best way to start off is to have Tom Tomorrow bring us up to date on everything. Think of it as the five-minute NPR news break at the top of the hour before we get into Morning Edition or All Things Considered and start digging down on the details.And […]
I’m getting burned out on editorial cartoons, mostly because they aren’t saying much that’s new or important anymore.JD Crowe has the right to publicize the nitwits of spring break because it took pleas from several sources to get his governor to shut down Alabama’s beaches and get rid of spring break crowds.Parenthetically, I’d be bummed […]
We’ll start the day with Steve Sack‘s commentary on working at home, because he acknowledges the challenge without going overboard.With about half my career having been freelance, I’ve worked at home both with kids under foot and after they were long gone, and I do recognize the fact that my deadlines have been far enough […]
The “Women Cartoonists International Award“ announced Doaa Eladl from Egypt as the winner of the first grand prize… while Camila de la Fuente from Venezuela/Mexico won the youth prize. Guy Badeaux has the winner details, along with submissions from the Honorable Mentions.
Finalists for the have been announced.This is the 71st year for the awards program, and the 31st under the current administrative structure. The awards were established by the Toronto Press Club in 1949 to encourage excellence and reward achievement in daily newspaper work in Canada. There are 63 finalists from 19 organizations in 21 categories. […]
J.D. Crowe extends the invitation and we should all accept it and gather together, separately.I’m good with that. I’ve worked at home for the past decade and I don’t miss going into the office.But even JD Salinger used to come into town once in awhile to check his mail and have a cup of coffee.Today’s blog […]
The Herb Block Foundation has announced that the ceremony honoring the 2020 Herblock Prize winners has, for now, been cancelled:
Peter Brookes joins the ranks of cartoonists who are posting what you might call “stiff upper lip” cartoons, which are intended less to critique and comment as they are to encourage.Which, by the way, is permitted. These are quite different than the celebratory “We won the World Series!” pieces that follow local triumphs, and, for […]
Nick Anderson captures the moment, and I would add that not only has Facebook (and Twitter, for that matter) become a seething cauldron of coronavirus stupidity but seems to be ramping up the political idiocy as well.And while I chuckle, too, at all the cartoonists saying they’ve practiced social isolation all their lives, part of […]
Ben Jennings scores.This is one of those pieces where the only real response is, “Good for you,” because there are plenty of paintings that depict crowds but this is the right one. Here’s the original, not that you haven’t seen it but I wanted a second look to see how crowded the scene really was and […]
Kal Kallaugher gets away with the tired iceberg metaphor for two reasons: One is his art, through which he can draw just about anything and make it fun and fresh, and the other is his ability as a storyteller.A couple of years ago, the featured speaker at the final banquet of the AAEC convention couldn’t […]
I’m going to try to be mostly critical in a literary rather than a social sense today, starting with Steve Breen’s simple expression of the situation.I had our next issue planned with a review of “My Spy,” but the reviewer dropped me an email to say she’d gone to the screening, but the release date […]
REMINDER: Four weeks to deadline for the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists’ The Rex Babin Memorial Award for Excellence in Local Cartooning submissions. As conventions are being cancelled or delayed the AAEC discloses their current plans:At this point we are 10 weeks out from the gathering in Ottawa, and one month from the hotel and registration deadline. That’s still […]
Greg Kearney, cartooning for the Atchison (Kansas) Globe, offers a bit of nostalgia and regret for the days when world events happened “out there.”A whole lot has changed, much of it in the past half century but much of that has been a sudden acceleration of a developing trend.One of the things I used to […]