Tank McNamara comments on something that has alternately puzzled and depressed me: The resurgence in recent years of boxing.The fight he refers to was a particularly strong example of why.Howard Cosell, who was at the time the best-known boxing announcer, stepped away from the sport late in 1982, after announcing a particularly brutal match between […]
Some recent letters to editors about comic strips and editorial cartoons. Sometimes it takes the simplicity and purity of a newspaper comic strip to bring tears to your eyes… Brian Basset, creator of Red and Rover, hit the sentiment of Memorial Day out of the ball park.Sue in Idaho thanks Brian and to the soldiers that […]
Graeme MacKay comments on an interesting and instructive story most Americans probably hadn’t heard about.Seems a Canadian company sold about 2,500 tons of what was supposed to be recyclable plastic to a company in the Philippines. However, when the shipping containers arrived, they proved to be full of household waste in addition to the plastic, […]
Don Asmussen has returned and is issuing new installments of Bad Reporter.The merry month of May saw Don become very active on Facebook and Twitter.Then mid-May saw the San Francisco Chronicle and GoComics go with new episodes.Don hasn’t mentioned anything about the progress of his recovery, but we are very happy to see him active […]
Mike Harris has been suspended by a social media platform for an editorial cartoon. From American Thinker:Our very frequent cartoon contributor Mike Harris was just suspended for 3 days on Twitter for posting there his cartoon making the point that mass extermination of human life is common to both the aboriton[sic] industry and the Nazis. We […]
I’m giving David Rowe the lead today because he illustrates a certain air of despair I’m feeling, akin to Yossarian’s trip through Nighttown at the end of Catch-22.Rowe specializes in the grotesque, but this barely feels like an exaggeration and contains an admirable level of detail that invites you to linger and wander down this […]
Last month it was announced, and last night Darrin Bell received his Pulitzer.above May 28, 2019: Darrin Bell accepts the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning from Columbia University President Lee Bollinger. (Eileen Barroso/Columbia University) Also at last night’s ceremony was the staff of the Capital Gazette:above: Staff and family members from the Capital Gazette of […]
That photo of people on Mount Everest seemed familiar, because it looked like this picture of people going over Chilkoot Pass between Alaska and the Canadian Yukon during the Klondike Gold Strike.They didn’t all make it, either, and that fellow at the lower right is apparently carrying a boat, which seems foolish but at least […]
Front Line: Editorial Cartoonists and the First Amendment The Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum has an exhibit showcasing editorial cartoonists praising the first amendment to the Bill of Rights and defending it from attackers. The exhibit runs until October 20, 2019. The political cartooning display runs the gamut from a 1774 etching by Paul […]
While the news of [Rick] McKee and [Mark] Streeter’s layoff was not unexpected — both their positions were on the chopping block 18 months ago, and temporarily saved by their editors — the axing of [Nate] Beeler came as a surprise.JP Trostle, for AAEC, reports on the recent layoffs of editorial cartoonists. While Paul Fell and […]
Few editorial cartoonists updated in the past 24 and a lot of strips are kind of in a trough, having crested for Memorial Day, but there are plenty of interesting odds and ends, beginning with the resignation of Theresa May and editorial cartoonists hoping Boris Johnson will become Prime Minister because he’s so much fun […]
Dave Granlund is one of the best at Memorial Day tributes. Major thanks and all honor to those who fell in the service of their country, and to their families who felt and feel the pang of their ultimate sacrifice. Hat tip to Dave Granlund for giving them such great respect.
E.A. Bushnell gets to lead off as we look back at the holiday — some were still calling it “Decoration Day,” others “Memorial Day” — a century ago, because he did more than a pro forma mandatory holiday cartoon.It’s sentimental, certainly, but he put some work into it, which suggests he took the job seriously. I […]
We’ll bookend this long weekend with Memorial Day cartoons, starting with the present day offerings, which varied from the standard salute-and-weep pieces to the foreboding viewpoint Pat Bagley offers.You could argue that cartoonists who comment on politics in their Memorial Day cartoons are hijacking the holiday for partisan purposes, but, then again, there will be […]
Arlo and Janis so often reflect my world view that it sometimes barely registers, but this one cracked me up, because I’ve noticed that ad writers have picked up on the term and insert it into commercials in order to assure us that their product is for cool people.Which, as Arlo notes, assumes a fact […]