… an item of interest in the humour section: a hardcover volume entitled Dahl’s Brave New World, published 1947. Spare but effective cartooning, plenty of imagination and wit. By way of biography, Mr. Dahl (1907-1973) thankfully rated an obit in the New York Times on May 7, 1973. Allow me to quote liberally from it: […]
Oh well. Wiley anticipated the outcome of yesterday’s vote with a Non Sequitur (AMS) that didn’t try to predict the winner but just observed that the Electoral College count doesn’t reflect the popular vote. There have been several cartoons over the past weeks suggesting we abandon the Electoral College and I think it’s a remnant […]
Guy Venables speaks for the world and most of us in America as well. I wasn’t even going to address the election today, because I’m burned out on it and there’s nothing new anyhow.At this stage, you’re either on the bus or you’re off the bus. I saw somebody on Facebook — a grownup, mind […]
Cartoonist and comics historian Tim Jackson has passed away.Timothy Lee (Tim) Jackson January 16, 1958 – November 3, 2024Social media was sharing the sad news of Tim’s passing yesterday: Comics community–I am very sorry to report that the cartoonist Tim Jackson has passed away. Tim, cartoonist for the Chicago Defender as well as many other […]
Even Edison Lee (KFS), though far too young to vote, understands what’s at stake tomorrow. I remember the anticipation and sense of helplessness in 1968, when we were, as the song said, “old enough to kill, but not for voting.”Lowering the voting age to match the draft age made sense, though — technical point — […]
Editorial cartoons are being seen by more people than ever, but the income that supports them is drying up. Fresh after being let go from his 30-year newspaper job, renowned editorial cartoonist Michael de Adder talks to The National’s Ian Hanomansing about the perils of his profession in the age of social media. Ian Hanomansing […]
The mission of editorial cartoons — afflicting the comfortable and comforting the afflicted — has been compromised. In recent years, cartoons, (thankfully not at the Hamilton Spectator) have been diluted to fit corporate partisan agendas, reduced to humour that avoids controversy, or worst of all, eliminated from newspapers altogether. Editorial cartoonists have not done their […]
Mr. Boffo often uses the term “unclear on the concept” in portraying a character who genuinely just doesn’t get it. Joe Martin should have used it today, because the term “mailman” disappeared a couple of decades ago, and the majority of actors under 40 use the term “actor” regardless of sex, just as nobody says […]
Pat Oliphant lost his eyesight a few years ago, but his blue-green eyes still search my face when I sit beside him and introduce myself. He says I speak too fast and that I have an accent and that it’s from Texas. I correct him (not from Texas) and point out that he’s got one […]
Jen Sorensen skips the clever rhetoric and metaphors and gets right to the point: Tuesday is going to tell the story.There are any number of cartoons out there about how sick everyone is of political advertisements and arguments, and I’m sympathetic, but that’s how the system works, or at least that’s how it’s supposed to […]
I was going to let Mike Peterson handle all this foofarah over newspapers not endorsing Presidential candidates, but I’ve got too many links and it’s either delete them or share them. So here’s a few. Dan Kennedy for Commonwealth Beacon offers some background on the movement toward non-endorsing: At both the Post and the LA […]
Jack Ohman (Tribune) offers a combination of the mundane and the insightful.It seems 90% of the conversation about Trump’s rally was about the first tasteless joke by the first tasteless speaker. Not only did everyone ignore the parade of white supremacists and assorted bigots who followed Tony Hinchcliffe, but few of them bothered to even […]
Jack Ohman (Tribune) had this cartoon up before Jeff Bezos broke a pair of rules:Bezos has written a too-long piece for his newspaper explaining why he decided not to publish a presidential endorsement but not explaining why they earlier published congressional endorsements or why he waited until eleven days before the election to make the […]
How on earth did we get here? Robert Ariail notes the positive messages of past presidents, contrasting them with Trump’s declaration that we’ve become a “garbage can.”But how many times can you marvel over how, in the past, such-and-such an action would have ended a political career but those rules don’t apply to Donald Trump? […]
There have been a number of cartoons responding to Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos having spiked an endorsement for Kamala Harris, many of them playing on the Post’s motto “Democracy Dies in the Dark.”Ann Telnaes gets the top spot in part because she works there and her cartoon joins with 16 Washington Post columnists who […]