The Tucson Sentinel is reporting…A list of household names on the Arizona Daily Star staff must soon decide if they’ll stay on the job — the newspaper’s corporate owners have offered buyouts for older workers, with the veiled threat of potential layoffs pending if not enough staffers accept. At least a dozen journalists have been […]
David Rowe on the conviction, in an Australian court, of George Cardinal Pell for sexually assaulting choir boys.Rowe has a well-earned reputation for amusingly ghastly depictions of people, but I think he wisely recognized that there’s no need for it this time, and that linked article, though a model of objective reporting, is horrific enough […]
From KGTV San Diego:San Diego Union Tribune cartoonist Steve Breen created a picture of authors James Baldwin and Toni Morrison, and actor Jussie Smollett, with the title “Famous African American Story Tellers,” according to Harris’ email. The image was published Friday, Harris said. “It was egregious to us all,” Harris said at his news conference.From […]
I’m in the mood to pick nits and perhaps fights this morning, and Drew Litton has the misfortune to serve up a slow, underhand ball with what is a frequent complaint: “Outrageous Player Salaries.”My usual response when football fans rant about this is to suggest they check with the 67,042 people who pay to watch […]
Don Asmussen has updated his status.On Twitter:Update: I’ve got cancer. My S.F. Chronicle bosses have been great and very supportive as I work my way back. It has spread to my organs, including my brain (my very worst organ, as most of you know). I had brain surgery last November, and now have some new […]
The Mark Knight cartoon that showed Serena Williams throwing a temper tantrum on her way to losing last September’s U. S. Open has been determined to be “non-racist.” The cartoon had garnered international outrage and condemnation.After complaints that the cartoon was offensive, showing a “prejudicial racial stereotype” and “sexist representation,” the watchdog Australian Press Council […]
We’ll lead off today with snippets of things you should go check out, starting with Ann Telnaes’s longer piece on the conference about sexual abuse at the Vatican. Or the conference at the Vatican about sexual abuse.Whichever. It is well-worth the click.Signe Wilkinson takes up a piece of that argument, agreeing with Telnaes that it’s […]
Kal Kallaugher describes a central issue in the campaign to “Make America Great Again” that goes beyond border walls and is at the heart of a whole lot of issues we’re dealing with.America as a “Melting Pot” derives from a 1908 play by Israel Zangwill, an immigrant from Britain who was, himself, the son of […]
When I gave the advice “Dare to be stupid!” what I meant was that silly jokes are fun. I wasn’t advising deliberate stupidity in the political realm, which is disloyal.There is spin, and Adam Zyglis mocks the spin of those who don’t mind running up a deficit for a wall, but who can’t see how […]
(Rip Kirby)(Big Ben Bolt)Call this the “Juxtaposition of Nagging.” Over in the Vintage section at Comics Kingdom, Rip Kirby is just starting a new adventure, while Ben Bolt is at the climax of another.Offering these classic strips to those who pony up $20 a year to subscribe is better than a tote bag and a […]
We start with a mere fragment of an Existential Comics episode, the rest of which is hilarious, in which a procession of philosophers question Aladdin’s “princeness” and, hence, the genie’s honesty and/or competence.This cartoon pits my hatred of plot holes against my hatred of metaphysics, which makes for an interesting cage match.The traditional first meeting […]
“Heart of the City” sparks memories not of ceramics class but of shop, since our first project in seventh grade was an aluminum ashtray.We had to cut a round piece of metal, hammer it on a mold so it became a dish with about a half-inch rim, then add the grooves (“rests”) around the rim, […]
In a weekend roundup of editorial cartoonists I linked to an article about Halifax political cartoonist Michael de Adder catching grief about a recent cartoon.The reaction to the cartoon was immediate and strong:…what had people most upset was the depiction of Wilson-Raybould tied and gagged — with some saying it draws an ugly parallel to […]
Arlo resurrects an artifact of the 60s that, yes, I once owned, and Janis is fully justified in her frustration, because what the thing does is to cut down the size of the target by about two-thirds.Wadding up a piece of paper required getting it small enough to pass through the hoop, which meant a […]
Heeeee’s Back!Mike Marland, who spent part of 2017 with InDepthNH, the New Hampshire Center for Public Interest Journalism, has returned to that watchdog group as a regular contributor. The State of the ArtThe header of this post comes from Rod Emmerson‘s essay on the state of editorial cartooning.So here we are, at the dawn of a […]