Editorial cartoonist Coila Davis has passed away.Coila Ann Davis (nee Brown) April 28, 1947 – November 4, 2019 Coila freelanced for the Rockford (Illinois) Register Star.From the Register Star obituary:Coila Davis, who over decades crafted dozens of quirky editorial cartoons for the Register Star, died Monday after a short illness. “I published well over 100 of […]
Rob Rogers offers this play upon the question Ronald Reagan famously posed in 1980 to help him defeat Jimmy Carter: “Are you better off today than you were four years ago?”It was a great question, because it has more to do with mood than with reality.Few people were going to actually go back and crunch […]
Nieman Lab reports:It was a “happy surprise,” Fraser Nelson said, when The Salt Lake Tribune received a letter from the IRS on Friday giving the 148-year-old news outlet nonprofit 501(c)(3) status — no questions asked. A final verdict on whether the Tribune could become the first legacy newspaper in the U.S. to go fully nonprofit […]
Original October 29, 2019 item:Daniel Cameron, Republican candidate for Kentucky Attorney General, posted about a Lexington Herald-Leader cartoon by Joel Pett on his twitter feed:Which led the Florida-based Biz Pac Review political news site (“breaking news and analysis unfiltered by the liberal bias that has eroded the media’s credibility”) to take up the cause:A white […]
CQ Roll Call cartoonist Robert “RJ” Matson has won the National Press Foundation’s Clifford K. and James T. Berryman Award for Editorial Cartoons.The NPF judges said: “Matson’s cartoons combine visual clarity and instant impact. His drawing is fresh, clean and beautifully composed. Matson’s dry satire helps break down complicated issues and zeroes in on his […]
Robb McAllister noted in a comment here earlier today that the 1974 Jules Feiffer book FEIFFER ON NIXON is featured on Mike Lynch’s blog. Mike Lynch notes that after nearly fifty years, the times they aren’t really a’changin’.In a bit of synchronicity the New Orleans Times-Picayune has a feature story about Jules today.His age has […]
(Tom Toles)(Clay Jones)We’ll start out with our Juxtaposition of the Day, taking on Zuckerberg’s Theory, which is that you have to take the money because you can’t figure out whether the source is legitimate or not.Which is a substantial part of the freedom that sites like Facebook enjoy: The theory is that they are simply […]
Political cartoons are just the coolest. You get to make fun of people in power in a funny way, plus you get get big ups for your art if you do it right. Even people who don’t read the news might check out your comic. Who wouldn’t want that job? But the gig is also […]
So a cartoon by Australian cartoonist Michael Leunig again causes a stir.To be sure Leunig has his detractors:Oh no, Leunig is back, and he’s making cartoons again! Why won’t somebody stop him? If you’re not aware, Michael Leunig is a veteran cartoonist and Australia’s most whimsical anti-vaxxer — he also hates marriage equality! Honestly, it’s bad enough that […]
above: Boris Johnson in The Times by Peter BrookesTim Benson looks back at the cartoons of 2019 and asks, “How far can you go in making people think but not being tasteless”?In April, the international edition of The New York Times published a controversial cartoon. It showed a blind Donald Trump, wearing a skullcap, being […]
Every fifteen years or so the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists overhauls its website. November 1, 2019 marks the latest.The old face of editorialcartoonists.com:The new face of editorialcartoonists.com (yes, the address remains the same):I guess this refurbishing explains the occasional “service unavailable” message that one got when checking in on the page the past couple […]
Jim Morin provides a good starting point and what may be Trump’s best defense: To simply scream that it’s all a hoax and a witch hunt and unfair.I particularly like that Morin does not have him pointing at his political opponents so much as the system itself. We’ve had several cartoons showing him destroying or […]
Marshall Ramsey began his career at the University of Tennessee Daily Beacon (sample above).His post-college career led him first to Pope High School in Georgia, where he was a janitor who rolled around a barrel with his diploma attached. After a six-month “pity party” and a Sunday sermon about the parable of the talents, Ramsey […]
We’ll start the Halloween rundown with Sunday’s Pajama Diaries, which raises the question, “What’s with all the ‘Sexy-whatever’ costumes?”I suppose one interpretation could be that Moms don’t get a lot of opportunities to be sexy, though, as suggested here, they’re too busy in the first place.For my part, I’m less fascinated by the “if you’ve […]
Dennis Draughon, Capitol Broadcasting Company’s editorial cartoonist, has been recognized for the best editorial/political cartoons by Editor & Publisher magazine’s 24th annual EPPY Awards. The annual competition honors the best work on digital media websites. Draughon, 58, has been drawing editorial cartoons for Capitol Broadcasting since February 2017.The EPPY judges praised Draughon’s cartoons as “clever […]