Good Timing AwardI got a major Update message the other day from Lenovo, so I don’t know if it was their upgrade or Microsoft’s, but after it was installed, my laptop began freezing up.The next day, I saw an “Update and Shut Down” prompt as I logged off, which made me think they’d found and […]
Judge Parker threatens to become self-aware, likely because Francesco Marciuliano, who also writes “Sally Forth,” is writing the stories.Sally Forth has made shattering the fourth wall an ongoing feature, and that’s fine there but I’d hate to see it here. However, if Ronnie’s caustic grasp on normalcy becomes the catalyst that brings it down to […]
Let’s have the teacher/cartoonist, Mr Fitz, lead off today.He not only raises an important question but suggests several subtopics.To start with, a lot of art proceeds from troubled souls, and if you’re going to refuse to study works by unpleasant people, you won’t have a whole lot left to work with. Even those schlocky sad-eyed […]
Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn and caldron bubble. Fillet of a fenny snake, In the caldron boil and bake; Eye of newt and toe of frog, Wool of bat and tongue of dog, Adder’s fork and blind-worm’s sting, Lizard’s leg and howlet’s wing, For a charm of powerful trouble, Like a hell-broth boil […]
Some serious thoughts, some purely silly ones, but starting with a good insight by John Cole into the impact of the shutdown.There have been several cartoons commenting on the fact that our National Parks are unable to service their trash cans and washrooms, and I’m certainly not going to dismiss that.But I don’t see a […]
Texas is the second largest state in terms of area and population, yet there are no Texas newspapers with staff editorial cartoonists. That is not to say there aren’t cartoonists plying their trade in the Lone Star State. Between El Paso and San Antonio and nearly a hundred miles south of the Pecos River, in […]
Matt Davies celebrates one of the most hilarious misfires in a very long time, the attempt of conservative trolls to shame Alexandria Ocasio-Cortes by posting a musical video she’d made in college which was so wonderful and winning that I’m not even going to dig up a link because I’m sure you’ve seen it.The recreation […]
Creating good Trump cartoons is so hard it’s not even funny. The ironic thing is, drawing him is easy. The pursed lips, the puff of golden hair, the iconic hand gestures – they beckon the pencil. A cartoonist might chortle to himself, This is going to be huge! HUGE! We’re going to draw tremendous cartoons. […]
Here are just SOME of the cartooning awards and details on submissions and deadlines. After easy holiday days it is time to get frantic if planning to enter some of these. The Jay Kennedy Memorial ScholarshipDEADLINE: ENTRIES MUST BE POSTMARKED BY JANUARY 7, 2019Only days left to enter this scholarship given to the cartoonist judged the […]
I’ll get to politics in a minute, but I’m a little burned out on the topic, so let’s start with some less fraught things, such as fish breath.I’ve never had a sardine omelette, but Wallace the Brave brought back a memory of kippered herring, which my mother liked and which, alongside some scrambled eggs or […]
From the Indianapolis Star farewell column by Gary Varvel: After 24 years as IndyStar’s cartoonist, I’ve drawn nearly 8,000 cartoons, including those of Bill Clinton’s boxers, George W. Bush and Barack Obama’s ears and Donald Trump’s hair. Today’s will be my last. I have chosen to take Gannett’s early retirement offer. Though Gary will no longer […]
I wasn’t going to post any more New Year’s Babies, but Tom Richmond, who, IMHO, is in a photo-finish with Kal Kallaugher for the title of best caricaturist in the business, offers this one and I just can’t resist.There are many reasons to be optimistic about the coming year, most of them having to do with […]
The fourth and final collection of The Best Editorial Cartoons of 2018. The previous first, second, and third collections, if you missed them. At Legal Insurrection you can vote for your favorite A. F. Branco cartoon. Walt Handelsman of the New Orleans Advocate goes on WWL-TV to discuss his 2018 favorites. From NOLA to Cali. The […]
Happy New Year, 1915, from this little feller. Since New Year’s cartoons are interchangeable, I thought instead I’d dip into my files of favorites from before I launched this venture nine years ago. So let’s start with my first posting in rec.arts.comics.strips, nearly 20 years ago, which didn’t keep my numbskull boss from selling off the […]
Like Edison Lee, I’m a little dubious about this whole New Year’s Eve thing, though it’s probably because I’m more like Orville in that I’ve seen enough of them to be choosy.Then again, I’m old enough to realize that there probably isn’t a good year to live over again, since the years with the highest […]