“Political cartoons are dying a slow death. The cartoonists who remain are doing what they can to keep them alive. Others have had to make what was once their job, a hobby.” Bill Day has been an editorial cartoonist for more than 40 years as a staff cartoonist for the Detroit Free Press (1985-1998) and […]
As DD Degg reported the other day, the ridiculously deep cuts at the Washington Post are making most observers feel that either Jeff Bezos is a raving incompetent or he has lost interest in the toy he bought and never quite figured out. Goris is far from the only one to capitalize on the slogan […]
John Darkow’s ICE cartoon bemoaned, Goofus and Gallant, #ComicsforLiam, #ICEOutComics, new NY Times Awards, Bill Suddick Speaks, and former Washington Post cartoonist Michael de Adder cartoons The WaPo. We start with…The Modern Schutzstaffel? There are columns, social media posts, and cartoons comparing the current ICE organization to the Schutzstaffel (SS) of Nazi Germany. A letter […]
As the Rock Man told Oblio, “You see what you want to see, and you hear what you want to hear.” The point — no pun intended — is that “You got to open your mind as well as your eyes. But first you got to get yourself together; Dig yourself.”Pett is right about the […]
With John “Front Page” Rose, New Yorker cartoonists Lynn Hsu and Brendan Loper, Ed Fischer, Jeff Koterba, Zander Cannon in Minneapolis, and Ron Coleman on pricing cartoons.John Rose is Up to SnuffSnuffy Smith and Barney Google cartoonist John Rose gets a page one, above the fold article in his local Ogden newspaper! John is profiled […]
Massive layoffs at The Washington Post, not so massive but still substantial layoffs at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the improving digital footprint at The New York Times and with print papers dying (see AJC) we have the top 25 digital local newspaper websites.From David Bauder of The Associated Press: The Washington Post laid off one-third of […]
I think I’ve seen just about enough cartoons that play upon the I.C.E./ice coincidence. We’re having an exceptionally tough winter and facing an exceptionally draconian private army. But neither will be resolved by a pun. But here’s an exception to my word-weariness: Wolterink gets excellent mileage out of the two meanings, since the US announced […]
UK’s Professional Cartoonists’ Organisation (PCO) handed out their annual Splats Awards a few days ago. The only place I’m finding the results of The Splats Awards is on the PCO Bluesky account where they also post photos of the event. The winners are… Kevin Wells for Best Caricature Grizelda for Best Current Affairs Grizelda again […]
Today is a sort of cartoonists’ holiday. Nobody takes Groundhog Day seriously, except the Chamber of Commerce in Punxsutawney, obviously, but there it is and gag cartoonists can pop out something and enjoy a short day.Editorial cartoonists can get their compensation sometime later in the year by showing Bill Murray waking up to another round […]
Danziger explained it all back in 2018, but it’s a much older story than that. For Americans, as everyone who paid attention in high school social studies knows, the issue of press freedom was raised when we were still a British colony. In 1734, New York’s royal governor charged John Peter Zenger‘s newspaper, The New […]
Hearst editorial page editor John Breunig asks, “Why are editorial cartoonists drawn to Donald Trump?” (or here). How would Dr. Seuss have drawn President Donald Trump? This is what I’m thinking as we launch a new feature showcasing political cartoons of the previous month. Satirists seem to be competing to see who can sketch the […]
I was prepared to jump right into this very non-comical story, and the AAEC has released a statement on it, but I didn’t find enough cartoons this morning on the topic, so it’ll have to wait. But Slyngstad dropped two commentaries, this light-hearted iconic one and a more serious one that you’ll see when more […]
The Association of American Editorial Cartoonists has issued a statement about the arrest of Don Lemon: There’s a reason free speech and freedom of the press are the first of the essential liberties enshrined as the Bill of Rights in our Constitution. If people aren’t free to speak and assemble and if the press isn’t […]
In case you hadn’t heard, there’s a national strike going on today to protest ICE, with the slogan “No work, No school, No shopping,” and Matt Davies suggests some alternatives: A quiet walk on the beach alone, communing with nature privately in the forest or skipping a movie along with everybody else.Melania: Twenty Days to […]
Steve Sack returns to the drawing board, KAL shows how he creates and provides a flow chart, Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novelist Tessa Hulls is interviewed, Freebies: Comics Research Bibliography and Addenda and The Blue Road to Trump Hell, American Library’s list of Youth Media Awards (the Newbery, the Caldecott, the Alex for Peter Kuper, and […]