Two Prize – Herblock and Pulitzer – stories. Mike Rhode at Comics DC brings a few exclusive pictures of the Herblock Prize awards ceremony. At the moment it is the only news I found about the 2025 presentation, which featured winner Marty Two Bulls, Sr. with a video acceptance and Lalo Alcaraz in discussion with […]
Ann Telnaes originally posted this a year ago, but brought it back recently to comment on the flourishing of AI. Then someone re-posted this segment with a link to the full piece:That fragment zeros in on the main problem with AI. Whether it’s graphic art, writing, music or whatever, the essence of art is translating […]
Cartooning Pope Leo XIV Pat Byrnes and the newspaper he rode in on is taken to task by a Yakima Herald-Republic reader: To the editor — I’m Catholic and from Chicago and celebrating the election of the new Pope. But your May 13 cartoon on the editorial page went too far. The depicted “communion wafers” […]
A nice salute to the fallen, which not only honors their sacrifice but recalls what they sacrificed for, in a way that serves as a reminder — and a rebuke if needed — as well as a tribute. It’s all well and good to say “Freedom isn’t free,” but this is a good day not […]
Cartoonist Steve Breen has accepted the position of Director of School Communications at San Diego’s Cathedral Catholic High School leaving him precious little time for his regular duties at inewsource. Steve informed readers of his Drawing Conclusions newsletter this weekend: All good things must come to an end! I appreciate you so much for following […]
Weyant kicks off today’s commentary with a salute to the obvious: Donald Trump is for sale. There are cynics who say he ran for a second term to avoid being tried, convicted and jailed for things he did in his first term, but that’s not true. Most of the charges he was trying to avoid […]
A few days ago we reported on Scott Adams making public his terminal prostate cancer condition.That was naturally big national news. Here are the Associated Press and United Press International reports. Closer to Adams’ home was the San Jose Mercury-News story of their local(ish) cartoonist’s announcement. Later it was revealed that President Trump called Trump […]
The good thing is, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa knew what he was getting into. Or at least Zapiro did, having drawn this cartoon more than a week before yesterday’s shameful public exhibition of lies and attempted bullying.Perhaps, having spent the first 38 years of his life living under apartheid, Ramaphosa was well-adapted to quietly […]
Lalo Alcaraz was named the 2025 winner of the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Cartoon Award as part of the organization’s presentation of their Book and Journalism Awards held on May 22, 2025.In introducing Lalo’s submitted portfolio the organization said: Our cartoon winner is the child of Mexican immigrants, so he brings sharp insight into […]
Margulies starts the ball rolling with an observation which you should hold in mind throughout the rest of what is to come. First of all, he’s right. Trump reminds me of a wisecrack directed at Jesse Jackson some years ago by Detroit Mayor Coleman Young: “Jesse’s never run anything but his mouth.”Ditto, the difference being […]
It has been revealed that the recent documentary Art Spiegelman: Disaster Is My Muse was edited before PBS allowed it to be aired as part of their American Masters series. From Documentary Magazine: Twelve days before Art Spiegelman: Disaster Is My Muse (2024) was set to broadcast on April 15 across PBS stations nationwide as part […]
The Dallas Morning News (DMN) recently received a letter appealing for a more even-handed approach to the editorial cartoons appearing in their newspaper. The paper acknowledged that it was not the only like-minded request. So, how does The News pick editorial cartoons? And are they disproportionately anti-Trump? DMN Public Editor Stephen Buckley explains the circumstances […]
Murphy’s cartoon seems harsh, but, then again, he isn’t the one who has loosed masked men upon the population or ignored the courts and sent prisoners — many of them legal residents without criminal records — off to foreign gulags without trials.How many Americans recognize the term stasi? Is Gestapo too harsh? How harsh is […]
“Draw Off” with Phil Hands May 20th and with Adam Zyglis May 22nd, both featuring D. J. Coffman.Via GlobalNewswire: DAVENPORT, Iowa, May 19, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Lee Enterprises, Inc. (NASDAQ: LEE), a leading provider of trusted local news, today announced the company is hosting a “Draw Off” event series that will pair The Wisconsin […]
I’m surprised more cartoonists haven’t spoken up about the revelations of Joe Biden’s fade and his party’s (apparent) attempts to keep it from becoming public knowledge. Near as I can tell, the controversy is not over the accuracy of Tapper and Thompson’s book but over whether it’s a topic we should be addressing, given the […]