This month, The New York Times fired its two cartoonists, Patrick Chappatte and Heng Kim Song, who drew for the international edition. This wasn’t a cost-cutting measure. I believe it was a response to the outrage The Times received in April after the international editions printed an anti-Semitic cartoon of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu […]
From a strictly artistic point of view, the father-and-daughter image has been done enough.From a political point of view, it can’t be, and Tom Toles offers an effective, if somewhat didactic, variation.But he’s right: They were killed by heartless, feckless bureaucracy.They had gone to a port of entry to apply for amnesty as the law […]
U. S. Representive Duncan Hunter (CA. – San Diego County) is asking for a change in venue for his trial, involving alleged misuse of campaign funds, at least in part due to Steve Breen‘s political cartoons for the San Diego Union-Tribune.From Politico:In another motion filed Monday, Hunter’s defense asked that the upcoming trial be moved […]
Jimmy Margulies leads off the conversation with a reflection on the upcoming holiday and our American identity.There are all sorts of things wrong with this drawing, I suppose, starting with the kids not being crowded enough and the facility not being a series of indoor cages.And of course we can argue over what it should […]
Pia Guerra is not the first person to observe that keeping kids locked up in concentration camps or guest cages or whatever you call them is a great deal more expensive than makes sense.However, she is the first I’ve seen to take advantage of the “Picture is Worth 1,000 Words” rule, and that is, after […]
Happy Birthday Vic Carrabotta, born June 24, 1929! Vic becomes the latest creator to join the Senior Strippers roster. A list of cartoonists who for 90+ years continue to survive “the thousand natural shocks that flesh is heir to.”Below is, as best as I can determine, a list of cartoonists who continue to carry on […]
Doc and Raider is starting a new arc that I’ll be watching with interest, because I’m increasingly unsure about any kind of normality, much less “heteronormativity,” which Wikipedia defines as “the belief that heterosexuality, predicated on the gender binary, is the norm or default sexual orientation.”Teen Vogue, which tends to tackle hard topics, has this […]
The New York Daily News is celebrating its centennial today, a couple days early. The first issue of The Illustrated News appeared June 26, 1919. Today, the Sunday Daily News celebrated with a 120 page anniversary insert. New York newspaper collector and historian Michael Vassallo describes the insert:It weighs in at 120 pages although 65 of those pages […]
It was a warm October day in 1962. I was a sophomore at South Side High School in Ft. Wayne, Indiana, excelling in art class, in other subjects, not so much. I was on the staff of the school newspaper as a cartoonist and illustrator. My goals in life were to be an illustrator like […]
I recently likened Iran’s Revolutionary Guard to the middle-school bully who repeatedly pokes his finger in someone’s chest, hoping to get a response so he can say “He swung first.”Darrin Bell reverses things, and I don’t disagree. Can you imagine if Iran flew a drone off our Atlantic Coast and then tried to argue over […]
I thought, since Mike mostly foregoes politics on Fridays, today would be a good time to update the reaction to the New York Times cartoon ban. But the AAEC beat me with their roundup earlier today. Though I think I can find a few cartoons if not editorials..It’s easy when Keith Knight puts out The […]
Your life is extremely busy these days, with the production of both editorial cartoons and two daily comic strips. Which is more difficult—the editorial work or the strips? I’d have to say the editorial cartoons. It’s almost performance art—something breaks on the news, and you only have a few hours to respond, to make deadline. I […]
Jen Sorensen points out an unintended consequence of a generational oddity, and I like it for a couple of reasons, but mostly because complaining about the differences between generations triggers a rant that is dear to my heart.Except that she doesn’t use fictional Madison Avenue marketing terms to pigeonhole her characters: She says “older” and […]
above: Wayne celebrates 40 years with the paper and announces his retirement in 2029.below: Wayne announces he has been let go ten years earlier than planned. Wayne Wright has been sketching the daily cartoons for Summerside, [Prince Edward Island]-based newspaper the Journal Pioneer for the past 40 years, but last week that came to an […]
Last month Jennifer Grygiel advocated that the ease of creating and distributing political memes made it a superior editorial single-shot image than the pen and ink cartoon. With the New York Times canceling the use of one panel editorial cartoons, Jennifer returns to say – so what? Again championing the meme over the cartoon.As a […]