Dennis Draughon of Capitol Broadcasting/WRAL and Bai Yi of SPH Media shared winning Editor & Publisher’s 2024 Eppy Award for Best Editorial/Political Cartoon. E&P EPPY Awards: Celebrating the winners of the 26th annual honors in digital journalism Recognizing excellence in digital journalism, the EPPY Awards highlight the transformative power of innovation in the news publishing […]
Kevin Kallaugher points out something you should already know, which is that Dear Leader is celebrating his return to power but wearing blinders to avoid facing a major crisis that he has dismissed as a hoax.It’s certainly not because any reputable scientists have assured him that it isn’t real, but perhaps it’s somehow linked to […]
I pondered using Joe Dator’s cartoon because I’ve seen similar gags before, but then realized (A) there aren’t many absolutely brand-new gags, but a good cartoonist can make them fresh and (B) there are things that can’t be said too often.(A) is covered in Russian literary criticism, where they have an expression “making new,” which […]
I’m not doing political cartoons today, but here’s one anyway. I like Patrick Chappatte’s effort at attempting to suggest a cabinet appointment more ridiculous and inappropriate than the ones that are really being proposed. But I think it’s because the art is particularly appealing.A lot of cartoonists are trying, and failing, to come up with […]
I like David Cohen‘s take because it really does seem like Trump is grabbing random screwballs for his cabinet rather than carrying out some cunning plan. Granted, anyone who listened to his speeches during the campaign shouldn’t be surprised that his actions now are similarly incoherent and inexplicable, but it would be nice if he […]
Bonnie Lord is a junior from Alma, Michigan and is an environmental science major at Albion College. She is driven by community, justice and sustainability. She enjoys bird watching, reading and dismantling the patriarchy. Bonnie Lord has an enthusiasm for environmental causes which leads her to question whether she can report dispassionately on subjects she […]
September 12, 1984: The first issue of The Santa Cruz Comic News is published. In a rare moment of clarity, founder Thom Zajac had come up with the idea of using only syndicated material — primarily editorial cartoons — to create the first newspaper of its kind, and it becomes an instant hit. Over the […]
Kevin Necessary offers the first of a planned sequence of cartoons going through the stages of grief, and he seems to speak for a lot of his fellow political cartoonists, as well as a lot of civilians. Kyle Bravo expresses much the same feeling on behalf of those outside the trade, who face different challenges […]
For our re-boot of The Cartoonist’s Cartoonists, I was excited that Ann Telnaes agreed to provide us a list of her 10 cartoonists who influenced or inspired her work and career. Ann is the award winning political cartoonist for The Washington Post. She has won every major prize in editorial cartooning including The National Headliner […]
Christopher Downes offers some laughs as the Trump administration begins to take shape, but his exaggerations are well grounded.Trump truly is advancing Christian nationalism despite having no real sense of what’s in the Bible. He went to church as a kid, but the Trumps were congregants of Norman Vincent Peale, who wrote The Power of […]
Matt Pritchett has a talent for reducing complexities to simple imagery.Journalistic neutrality is a polite fiction, but it works if you take it seriously, as we once did.Walter Cronkite is often held up as the model for broadcasters. When he took off his glasses in announcing the death of JFK, or when he showed boyish […]
As of today the comics division of the Washington Post Writers Group (WPWG) no longer exists. The distribution of the last Fort Knox comic strip for November 10, 2024 effectively shutters the comics and cartoon division of the WPWG that began in 1979. The Washington Post Writers Group itself began in 1973 as an outgrowth […]
Patrick Chappatte calls the Trump election a wake-up call for Europe, which demands more analysis than a first reaction might suggest.I invoke Robert Burns in today’s headline, the full closing lines of To A Louse, On Seeing one on a Lady’s Bonnet at Church being “O wad some Pow’r the giftie gie us To see […]
Michael deAdderBen GarrisonWe won’t get through all the emerging political cartoons about the election today, but here are the bookends: de Adder sees it as the monster returning, referencing Poltergeist, the 1982 horror film about a gateway opening up to the other side, while Garrison cites the Magnificent Seven, in which a group of heroes […]
From thomasnast.com, where the cartoon is explained: As mentioned in the above quote, while the first Thomas Nast Republican elephant cartoon appeared in the Harper’s Weekly issue dated November 7, 1874, that edition of the magazine appeared on the newsstands 10 days earlier – on October 29, 1874.Like the Democratic donkey, Nast did not create […]