The Clay Jones GoFundMe account, set up by fellow editorial cartoonists Kevin Necessary and Jack Ohman to help with medical expenses as Clay recovers from his recent stroke, has reached half of its $100,000 goal.We salute those who contributed!Other cartoonists like John Buss, Ward Sutton, and Marc Murphy have joined in calling for assistance.From Steve […]
This is a recasting of a Currier & Ives poster of Patrick Henry giving his “Liberty or Death” speech, in which he sounded a warning to King George and, in response to cries of “Treason!” from other legislators, replied “If this be treason, then make the most of it!”I’ve seen posts on social media about […]
Whoopee! Steve Sack Has a Substack! Editorial cartoonist and 3D sculptor Steve Sack has set up a Substack called The Art of Sack. Sez Steve: Hello everyone! Welcome to the first edition of The Art of Sack. Each post pairs one of my Sack Classics — an editorial cartoon from my five decades in newspapers […]
We’re discussing news from other countries today, but I’m starting with a story from right here because the Department of Justice doesn’t often hand out laughs and I have a particular fondness for this metaphor. I covered a case 30-some years ago in which a pet store called our newsroom wanting coverage of what they […]
Below are some comic and cartoon books scheduled for October 2025 release (or so). Images and links from a variety of publishers and outlets, though ordering through your local comic shop or independent book store is a good idea. Drift Marlo: The Space Race Comic Strip by Phil Evans, I. M. Levitt, and Tom Cooke […]
There are two ways to interpret this La Cucaracha. The Viejo Pedo version is that nobody can understand modern singers, so what difference does it make if he’s performing in incomprehensible English or incomprehensible Spanish? The fact that the sound reproduction for Super Bowl halftime shows is crap adds some credence to this one.The more […]
Daniel Boris Goes International Washington, DC editorial cartoonist Daniel Boris has had a recent cartoon published by Le Courrier International in association with a Washington Post analysis. Daniel notes that it would have been nice if they hadn’t cropped a good portion of his signature out. The site credits Daniel and his international host Cartoon […]
Might as well lead with the punchline: It looks as if our self-anointed monarch is going to have a major ketchup-flinging tantrum this Saturday, given the amount of publicity and encouragement being devoted to the next No Kings celebrations. Or protests. Or whathaveyou. But, whatever they are, they look to be big. Possibly the granddaddy […]
An excellent piece by Telnaes that can be taken a couple of ways. Certainly, the brutality of the lawless attacks has damaged our freedom, but you can also take Liberty as a personification of the American people and those who wish to be American and interpret the attacks as happening to all of us.An eagle, […]
The Association of American Editorial Cartoonists headed by Kevin Necessary and Jack Ohman have organized a GoFundMe page to help Clay Jones recover from his stroke with medical and rehab expenses. Clay Jones is probably the hardest working cartoonist in the biz, if not the most passionate. He is a determined champion of political cartooning […]
The Cleveland Plain Dealer has announced that they will not replace staff editorial cartoonist Jeff Darcy. From Plain Dealer editor Chris Quinn: Our longtime political cartoonist Jeff Darcy retired Sunday after a decades-long career in which he produced thousands of biting and funny cartoons, and I tell you that no one on this staff was […]
Of all the Trump/Nobel cartoons that have appeared in the past 24 hours or so, this is the only one that really cracked me up. Cohen skips all the reasons it didn’t and shouldn’t have and couldn’t have happened, and capitalizes instead on Trump’s preening ego and childlike gullibility, which are at the center of […]
3,080. Eight years, five months and five days. That is how many days in a row that Clay Jones created and posted a political cartoon to GoComics. As Clay posted today “the streak is over.” Not due to any lack of desire on his part. It should be noted that each one of those cartoons […]
Editorial cartoonist Clay Jones suffered a stroke this week and says he’s partially paralyzed. On a Facebook post published today, he also indicated that he’s also having to relearn how to use his voice.His post: Dear friends, lovers, and co-conspirators, Unfortunately, this week I had a stroke and my right side is partially paralyzed. This […]
We’ll start with an obvious news story that tells a lot about the depths to which we have plunged. As Alcaraz notes, this year’s Super Bowl gains a special regional flavor as the halftime show features an American performing in Spanish.As Margulies points out there are a lot of lightly educated bigots who have a […]