From the Freedom Cartoonists Foundation: The Freedom Cartoonists Foundation and the City of Geneva announce the winners of the 2024 Kofi Annan Courage in Cartooning Award: Rachita Taneja of India, and Zunzi of Hong Kong. On World Press Freedom Day, on May 3, the Freedom Cartoonists Foundation recognizes the talent and courage of cartoonists working […]
Joy of Tech comments on the decline of the Internet, and they’re not alone, though this detailed takedown of Facebook’s flurry of AI spam requires free registration. But the gist of it is that much of what you see on Facebook is spam being commented on by bots, and that click farms have essentially taken […]
Harley Schwadron speaks for me, because there is a flood of topics being cartooned about at the moment and my desperation is in trying to cover the ones that won’t keep, combined with the prospects of a drought if I cover them all today and nothing surfaces for tomorrow.My desperation, though, is never quiet. Thoreau […]
The John Locher Memorial Award has evolved into the John Locher Memorial Fellowship and the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists has announced that Alexandra Bowman is the first beneficiary of the new honor. From the Association of Editorial Cartoonists:About the change: Kevin Necessary, the new Locher Fellowship manger, said, “The Fellowship shares much of the […]
I’m tempted to say “So here we are,” between Swift and Moynihan, but we sure seem willing to slip even lower at any moment.Moynihan suggested a chance for things to improve, while Swift seemed resigned to the belief that they wouldn’t. In fact, Swift, who was advising a younger clergyman, extended the thought: Reasoning will never […]
The winners of the 90th National Headliner Awards have been announced. The annual contest honors the best print, radio, television and online journalism in the United States published during 2023. The Press Club of Atlantic City has announced the winners of their 2024 National Headliner Awards. Clay Bennett of The Chattanooga Times Free Press won […]
Peter Schrank notes the almost-too-late move by the Americans to resupply Ukraine, and it’s good to get an outside view, because our internal reasons for the delay don’t much matter to people facing conquest. That more pragmatic point of view makes “Better late than never” a dubious expression, which Schrank emphasizes by showing Ukraine on […]
Kevin Necessary’s cartoon must surely seem an exaggeration to anyone who hasn’t been following the real-world case, but this argument is not simply being advanced in earnest but appears to have some traction with a substantial portion of the Supreme Court.And about that court: As Ann Telnaes points out, even having his wife active in […]
The Texas Observer is celebrating it 70th year and the most recent issue covers its skewering of Texas politicos by way of editorial cartooning.Gayle Reaves at The Texas Observer regales us with tales of Observer cartoonists from the first Don Bartlett cartoon to the current Loon Star State cartoons of Ben Sargent. At the Observer, […]
Fiona Katauskas sets a familiar scene divided between old and young, which may be a stereotype, but putting the old fellow in a suit rather than Archie Bunker mode suggests another division, that between those who have and those who are still setting their goals.The parallels between the Student Strike of 1970 and the current […]
The National Newspaper Awards are being presented at The Chelsea Hotel in Toronto tonight and the portfolio from Bruce MacKinnon of The Chronicle Herald has been judged the winner of the Editorial Cartooning category. Bruce is repeating his win of last year and it is his ninth winning year overall. Congratulations to Bruce! Bruce had […]
The satirical news website The Onion, and by extension cartoonist Stan Kelly, has been sold to Global Tetrahedron. From The Wrap: The Onion has sold to a new Chicago-based firm called Global Tetrahedron, G/O Media CEO Jim Spanfeller announced [in a memo] Thursday, TheWrap has learned. TheWrap obtained Spanfeller’s memo in full below: “As I […]
Raw Story reports on a Rolling Stone article: Former President Donald Trump is enraged about how he looks in the courtroom sketches at his Manhattan trial — and thinks that the sketch artist is trying to make him look bad on purpose. According to Rolling Stone‘s Ryan Bort, Asawin Suebsaeng, and Catherina Gioino, the former […]
“History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.” — Stephen DedalusAs Doonesbury concluded back in 1971, putting Kent State into the memory hole allowed us to “concentrate on fresher, more recent, tragedies.”But as Senators Hawley and Cotton call for the National Guard to be sent to quell campus protests, it’s worth remembering […]
From Radio Free Europe: PEN America, along with a group of organizations that support cartoonists and artists, has condemned the violent arrest of Atena Farghadani, an Iranian cartoonist currently being held in Tehran’s notorious Evin prison for attempting to hang one of her drawings on a wall near the presidential palace. Farghadani’s lawyer, Mohammad Moghimi, […]