More best/favorite cartoons from U. S. editorial cartoonists and their newspapers. The New York Daily News has picked 20 of Bill Bramhall‘s cartoons from 2023. WhoWhatWhy pick half a score graphic opinions from Ted Rall.The Chattanooga Times Free Press presents a dozen 2023 commentaries from Clay Bennett. Politico gives us three dozen political cartoons featuring […]
Dave Blazek, Paul Kirchner, Michael de Adder, Chris Britt, Leigh Rubin, Randall Enos, Jerry Craft, Dan Piraro, Dan McConnell, and a couple more are featured in some reports that due to a hectic holiday schedule, were undeservedly not featured here. So before this month and year is ushered out… The Wenatchee World reports local cartoonist […]
New Year’s cartoons are a mandatory piece each January 1, and Alfred Brewerton didn’t try for anything breakthrough with this 1924 greeting for readers of the Atlanta Journal. I suppose that might strike some people as lazy, but I prefer to see it as an example of restraint, while the amount of detail — achieved […]
A number of newspapers worldwide have gathered their favorite cartoons of the year. New Zealand: “Herald cartoonist Rod Emmerson reflects on his favourite moments.” India: “12 best cartoons of the year by DTE cartoonist, Sorit Gupto.” Australia: “The best of: Fiona Katauskas cartoons 2023.”Australia: “best cartoons of 2023” by David Pope, Peter Broelman, and Fiona […]
A number of Canadian newspapers have gathered their favorite cartoons of the year. From The Toronto Star comes “The Best of Patrick Corrigan.” Also from The Toronto Star is “The Best of Theo Moudakis.”Even more Toronto Star in the form of “The Best of Michael De Adder.” The Saskatoon Star Phoenix features a few cartoonists […]
A number of U. S. newspapers have gathered their favorite cartoons of the year. If these numbers continue we may have to do daily updates of the collections.Walt Handelsman and The New Orleans Times-Picayune/The Advocate went for 20 local cartoons. The Columbus Dispatch has a group of Cagle Cartoonists for their “Highlights of 2023.” Politico […]
There’s a lot of Year-End and New Year’s material this weekend, most of it pretty much the same, so I went instead to Australia for Jess Harwood’s take on the changeover, which I heartily endorse. Not only are the most well-adjusted happy people I know dogs, but nearly everyone I know in three dimensions is […]
This first bit of folly may be yours.Kirk Walters offers a variation on a familiar end-of-December theme: The crush of Christmas bills that arrive in the new year.But unike Ramadan or Hannukah, Christmas doesn’t wander around the calendar and pop up at unexpected times. It’s always December 25 and New Year’s is always January 1 […]
Controversy is surrounding an Adam Zyglis cartoon. Buffalo, NY (WBEN) – Leadership in Buffalo’s Jewish community says it’s upset over Tuesday’s Buffalo News cartoon by Adam Zyglis. They say the cartoon is anti-Semitic rather than a critique of Israel. From WBEN: While neither Adam Zyglis nor The Buffalo News are speaking on the record about […]
This could have been a short day for me, because Jen Sorensen has said everything I have on my mind.Instead, I’ll elaborate.One challenge in critiquing editorial cartoons gone wrong is trying to determine if the cartoonist is genuinely mistaken or deliberately lying, but I like to think that deliberate lies come from farther upstream, from […]
The end of the year always brings editorial cartoonists and newspapers selecting cartoons from the past year to present as some of their best. With 2023 ending on a Sunday that would seem the perfect day to publish such reviews. Some have already presented their cartoon choices for 2023. Unfortunately some, like The Baltimore Sun’s […]
It’s always nice to get the family together for the holidays, and here they are before they went Hollywood.As for the current holiday, Greg Kearney noted the downpour in Maine, which was worse than we had it next door, but we also had some power failures and erasure of snow-making on the ski hills and […]
The Washington Post recently published a few letters about some cartoons from mid-December. Editorial cartoonist Michael Ramirez came in for some praise: Michael Ramirez’s marvelous Dec. 12 editorial cartoon, “Medal of dishonor,” should be copied and posted on the office door of every member of Congress who has cravenly linked further Ukraine aid to the […]
Jack Ohman plays with the Nativity story to illustrate the plight of the poor and homeless in San Francisco. It’s nicely played, though, of course, he’s hardly the first cartoonist to make the comparison. But his multi-panel approach really pays off, adding detail and frustration to a common plaint.One way to differentiate among these parallels […]
The Cartoonist Rights organization has joined a growing list of groups and people boycotting X/Twitter: Effective immediately, CARTOONISTS RIGHTS will cease posting content to Twitter, now known as “X”, until such time as there is a change in ownership and a marked improvement in the website’s policies and functionality. Following recent changes in policy and […]