My hip replacement has had the pleasant timing to have occurred during the Women’s World Cup. While I’m still pushing my walker around the apartment, I have had the chance to watch a lot of soccer, or, as Stephen Collins and three-quarters of the rest of the world would call it, football.Unlike Brian, I like […]
Publisher, cartoonist, artist Jim Adcock has passed away. James Bentley (Jim) Adcock June 12, 1948 – July 19, 2023From the obituary: Jim said he could not remember a time when he didn’t want to be an artist. Though he had the brains and heart to conquer any discipline, he had scores of stories about the […]
Patrick Blower cites the new Civil War, in which a divided country rages around a vestige of the old Civil War. As noted here before, it was much easier when we had a geographical division based, for the most part, on a single, definable issue.Even then, there were as many quarrels over why we were […]
It’s throw it out there Thursday – a gathering of gleanings. Editoons v. Memes; Newspaper Troubles; Battling Book Banners; and what your heirs will do with all those comics. EDITORIAL CARTOONS ARE NOT MEMES! Graeme MacKay, “One of the last staff editorial cartoonists still slogging away at a daily newspaper,” discusses the difference between editorial […]
Unlike the 2020s The Pulitzers had an Editorial Cartooning category in the 1920s. Rollin Kirby took three of the first seven Pulitzers awarded in that journalism division. The inaugural honor went to Rollin Kirby, who worked for an array of New York newspapers and magazines. He won the award for his depiction of the victims […]
Ann Telnaes was out of the gate quickly as the indictments were announced, largely because she’d been following the story since it began and was able to repurpose an Oldie-but-Goodie. This is not to say that she anticipated the co-conspirators: Of these, only Giuliani was indicted.But she echoes a commentary also advanced by Adam Zyglis […]
Pros and Cons (KFS) relies on three main characters: Samuel, the incompetent attorney; Stan, the somewhat brutish but kind-hearted cop and Lyndon, the psychiatrist continuously flummoxed by the twisted egos of his patients. Today, Lyndon has inadvertently led one of his regulars down the wrong garden path, hoping to shame him into taking control and, […]
Let’s start with some nonsense. The Walt Disney Company is about to do the unthinkable: retire Mickey Mouse. Inside the Magic reports that Disney is bringing The Wonderful World of Mickey Mouse animated shorts to an end with tribute to The Mouse’s first short Steamboat Willie: Since 2020, Mickey Mouse has starred in the animated […]
As is so often the case, I find myself reluctantly agreeing with Clyde’s dubious street smarts in today’s Candorville (KFS) over Lemont’s more proper sense of logic and propriety. Or perhaps with John Lennon, who also felt that life was what happens while you were making other plans. Or perhaps with myself, having watched all […]
Northern California freelance cartoonist R. L. Crabb notes the recent actions of McClatchy newspapers, headquartered in nearby Sacramento: The editorial cartooning world was shocked a few weeks ago when McClatchy Newspapers announced the layoffs of three Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonists… To those of us who follow the business end of cartooning, it wasn’t a complete surprise. […]
In April British editorial cartoonist Martin Rowson drew a cartoon that was deemed antisemitic. Since that time Rowson has not appeared in The Guardian newspaper, his newspaper, that published the cartoon. Until now. Martin apologized for the cartoon, as Mike Peterson said at the time it was “one of the most complete apologies and in-depth […]
A Kenyan politician underwent surgery dealing a blow to the country’s cartoonists and caricaturists. From Nairobi Wire: Former Kenya National Union of Teachers (Knut) secretary-general Wilson Sossion is having the last laugh following his recent surgery to eliminate fatty tissue (lipoma) from his forehead. Sossion had two trademark lumps on his forehead, which were often […]
The Association of Alternative Newsmedia (AAN) announced the winner of their 2023 awards. Celebrating excellence in local journalism, these awards recognize outstanding reporting, writing, photography, and multimedia storytelling across various categories. In the cartoon division Robert Ariail of The Charleston City Paper took first place for – “Marshall law; Lindsey; Vaccine; Shell; sycophant”Judge’s comment: “Relevant […]
Might as well start with a laugh, or as close as we can get to one. RJ Matson steps back from attempting to inspire horror over the lack of ethics on the Supreme Court, and the Chief Justice’s refusal to take it seriously.Maybe mockery is more effective than head-on criticism. It has been said that, […]
Another Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist has lost his position with his newspaper. Steve Breen, cartoonist for The San Diego Union-Tribune, will no longer be a regular presence at the newspaper. Says Steve in a farewell column: By Steve Breen Editorial Cartoonist July 21, 2023 5:49 PM PT Today marks the last time I will have […]