Crain Communications editorial cartoonist and illustrator Rich Williams is retiring after 40+ years. From Plastic News: With Rich retiring Plastic News interviews him on his career: I went to Ohio University to major in journalism, became the editorial cartoonist for The Post, the school’s student-run newspaper, and soon realized it was my visual skill that […]
Yesterday’s cartoons by Ella Baron and Guy Venables were met with surprise by several readers, the issue of record quantities of sewage being dumped into English waters having only been mentioned here in passing before. One example of that being this Ben Jennings cartoon from August, 2022, when a drought brought the dumping of sewage […]
Featuring the cartooning talents of Jason Yungbluth, Michael de Adder, Mike Beckom, Ralph Steadman, Kyle Bravo, Kate Lacour, Walt Handelsman, and Michael Tisserand.Cartoonists cut up at New Orleans Book Festival at Tulane University It was standing room only at The New Orleans Book Festival at Tulane University’s “Louisiana: The Cartoonist’s Paradise” panel discussion on March […]
Cartoonist Elena Steier has passed away. Elena (née: Vira) Steier February 14, 1958 – March 1, 2024From the obituary: Elena Vira Steier passed away peacefully, surrounded by loving family, in the early hours of March 1, 2024 after a valiantly fought battle with cancer. Back to the obituary: An accomplished illustrator, author, and cartoonist, Steier […]
It’s only fair to point out that this Mike Lester (AMS) cartoon ran a few days before Biden suddenly racked up some significant gains in the all-important swing states that could decide the 2024 Presidential Election.If polls determined elections, Hillary Clinton would have won in 2016. Tracking polls is part of horserace coverage, and is […]
Gonna start off with this one because, first of all, the garish colors are not only appropriate given the subject matter but also because the lack of specificity adds to its appeal.It’s by Steve Bright, aka Brighty, who is a Scot. That’s not relevant to the point of the cartoon except to provide a little […]
Indeed it is, They Can Talk. The bears got up a little early this year and started getting into the bird feeders, which is their equivalent of socializing. We always get warned to take down our bird feeders this time of year, which I gather is because we don’t want to encourage the bears to […]
This past week La Presse put a Serge Chapleau cartoon on its website depicting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as the 1922 film vampire Nosferatu, and then almost immediately took it down and apologized as accusations of antisemitism began appearing. Just as quickly the Association of Canadian Cartoonists (ACC) responded by backing their brother. … […]
Ted Rall (Counterpoint)’s cartoon sent me scurrying to find whatever blog/podcast/column went with it, because it made no sense to blame Millennials. Turns out he saw a Millennial tell a homeless person “I don’t carry cash” and he feels the cashless society is a government plot.Well, possibly, but I don’t carry cash and I’m too […]
Lisa Benson (Counterpoint) sums up the situation as we head into the weekend: Trump has a major debt hanging over his head and no comfortable way to pay it.To be accurate, it’s not $454 million that he’s got to raise. When you add in the cost of the bond, or, as the fellows he may […]
Yesterday Montreal’s La Presse published an editorial cartoon by Serge Chapleau depicting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as the title character from the 1922 film Nosferatu.From the Montreal Gazette: La Presse has apologized after a cartoon depicting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as a vampire sparked outrage. The depiction, by veteran editorial cartoonist Serge Chapleau, […]
The possible unmasking of an anonymous right wing cartoonist by Mike Peterson yesterday may get him suspended from X/Twitter if the recent efforts to reveal the identity of cartoonist Stonetoss is any indication. From Mashable: Last week, Anonymous Comrades Collective, an online group that describe themselves as an “antifascist journalism collective dedicated to exposing Nazis, […]
Steve Brodner has been named the 2024 Herblock Prize winner (with portfolio). On choosing Brodner the judges said: Brodner’s work is unflinching, driven by a strong moral compass and imbued with a powerful sense of compassion. As the quote from Herblock engraved on the trophy reads, “Political cartoons, unlike sundials, do not show the brightest […]
The National Newspaper Awards have announced the finalists for works published in 2023. In the Editorial Cartooning category the finalists are Michael de Adder, Halifax Chronicle Herald Brian Gable, Globe and Mail Bruce MacKinnon, Halifax Chronicle Herald In their comments about the finalists the NNA notes: The Globe and Mail’s Grant Robertson (Bob Levin Award […]
Rick McKee offers a bit of a puzzler, because we seem to be locked in an endless argument over what Dear Leader said and what Dear Leader meant. Is it intentional? His fault? Our fault?Trump has plenty of trouble just reading from his TelePrompter, lapsing off into incoherent approximations of what’s written in front of […]