From Editorial Page Editor Matthew Fleischer: The San Francisco Chronicle is delighted to announce that Jack Ohman will become a contributing columnist for the paper’s Opinion section. Ohman’s work first appeared in the Chronicle in 1980 and his syndicated cartoons have been a mainstay on the Opinion pages for the past five years. In his new […]
As Jeff Stahler (AMS) notes, the writers’ strike in Hollywood has been settled and, as he also notes, that doesn’t mean that Paddy Chayefsky and Rod Serling are being loosed upon the TV studios once more.It also doesn’t mean that I’ll be any less aghast watching the promos during football for the next little while. […]
We’ll start with a non-political one. I’m disappointed in the new Sunday Ben Bolt (KFS-Vintage) story arc. Ben Bolt is mostly light, semi-humorous stuff on Sundays, but this reminded me of a scene in City for Conquest, a 1940 movie in which Cagney boxes to help support his composer brother. There is a scene in […]
The National Press Foundation is reminding journalists that the deadline for applications for NPF’s 2023 annual awards is Oct. 2, 2023. That includes The Clifford K. & James T. Berryman Award for Editorial Cartoons. All details are at NPF’s Berryman Award page. According to the AAEC awards page this is the last award deadline for […]
It was the Pig Fair last SeptemberA day I well rememberI was walking up and down in drunken prideWhen my legs began to flutterAnd I fell down in the gutterAnd a pig came up and lay down by my side.As I lay there in the gutterThinking thoughts I dare not utterI thought I heard a […]
Offer to make dinner. Offer to rub her shoulders. Just don’t offer advice. You’re stepping on a rake.Daddy’s Home (Creators) demonstrates something I learned from Deborah Tannen’s 1986 book, That’s Not What I Meant, an analysis of men’s and women’s conversational styles that has since been echoed and confirmed, though mostly by other feminist writers. […]
The UCLA Library received a donation of “A world-class collection of political cartoons and caricatures created between 1690 and 2022” from Michael and Susan Kahn (Michael Kahn co-wrote May It Amuse the Court: Editorial Cartoons of the Supreme Court and Constitution and What Fools These Mortals Be! The Story of Puck).From the UCLA news release […]
There are many Hunter Biden cartoons this week, but Clay Bennett (CTFP) offers my favorite because it’s so completely foolish. I have seen a few of these tags recently which specify that it is only the seller, not the buyer, who is not allowed to remove it, but the notion persists that nobody is allowed […]
DD Degg recently posted two round-ups (here and here) of remarks from people who are of the opinion that political cartoonists should not have opinions. Or at least not strong opinions with which others might disagree. And yet they do, and as proof, here are some examples. Get’em before more publishers decide it’s not worth […]
Editorial Cartoons on Billboards New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy is under fire and being ridiculed in a new political cartoon commissioned by the Sussex County Republican Committee. The cartoon shows the governor dragging a boy from his family and indoctrinating him into changing his gender identity. Sussex County Republican Chairman Joe Labarbera announced that the […]
So gold and rare coin proponent Mike Fuljenz used part of his September 6, 2023 column to discuss how he can, after a few days, decide on a newspaper’s political bias by the editorial cartoons the paper carries. As I travel the nation meeting with other industry leaders and giving insight on issues impacting the […]
First Dog on the Moon has the delightful ability to make me laugh but also send me scurrying to the Googles, and this is an excellent example. First Dog is the conscience of the world, so militant about climate change as to be annoying but, then again, not wrong. He brings up the important issue […]
In the morning it is my wont to have a news program on in the background while surfing the internet. The news channels change frequently but this morning it was CNN and Michael Smerconish for a while. Smerconish got my attention when he plugged his newsletter featuring exclusive political cartoons. Smerconish has, beginning in July, […]
Robert Ariail sums up the GOP’s impeachment effort with a familiar expression, though he’s generous in assuming they even have a horse, even one they haven’t hitched up before that cart. But the “Giddyap!” dialogue is instructive, because they are insistent that they’re ready to roll despite clear indications that they are not.They’re hoping a […]
Jack Ohman helped Politico kick off their new California Playbook page. THE BUZZ — Covering California’s mercurial political figures is no easy feat — but neither is capturing them in cartoon form. The Golden State is home to so many political giants — from San Francisco’s Nancy Pelosi to Bakersfield’s Kevin McCarthy — and to […]