A follow-up from yesterday: Paul Berge’s page is always an excellent place to learn about the past in editorial cartooning, and he offers this William Ceperley cartoon from 1923 as proof that we aren’t the first generation to turn Memorial Day into a picnic rather than a solemn observation. Which only scratches the surface, given […]
Frazz (AMS) got it right, amid a flood of more traditional Memorial Day cartoons. We aren’t required to mourn throughout the full three days, and, as Caulfield says, it’s a weekend full of distractions as it marks the beginning of summer.As Frazz himself observes, it still works. A lot of people will, at some point, […]
Steve Breen of The San Diego Union-Tribune took first, second, and third place for 2022 editorial cartoons from the California News Publishers Association in the Dailies (50,001 & over) category. George Russell also took 1st, 2nd, and 3rd in the Dailies(15,000 and under), while Ben Fishel ran all three places in the Dailies (15,001-50,000) category. […]
Steve Kelley (Creators) poses an interesting question with a dubious assertion: How much will a boycott of Target by bigots and hatemongers impact its sales?It’s interesting on its own, though you’ll have to wait until the end of summer when second quarter figures are released, and then bear in mind that first quarter sales, before […]
Ted Rall (Counterpoint) asks a reasonable question, but one for which there is a reasonable answer: You must crawl before you can walk.A major reason there are only two major political parties in the US is that everyone swings for the fences and nobody wants to score on singles. At the risk of using (gasp!) […]
I laughed at this New Yorker cartoon, though they don’t bother crediting their cartoonists and if you Google “New Yorker cartoonist CAB” you find out how many times they’ve made fun of taxis. It might as well be signed “pigeon” or “Chardonnay.”Whoever drew it, it got a chuckle, but it also got a flinch for […]
There’s not a whole lot we can agree on these days, but Michael Ramirez (Creators) touches on one sacred principle: When the margins are tight, everybody counts, including people who, in better times, would be jettisoned.The two situations are not identical: Dianne Feinstein is a long-serving, heroic figure, and it’s tragic that she can’t be […]
Editorial cartoonist J. D. Crowe of AL.com (“Alabama’s largest news site, providing up-to-the minute coverage of the news from around the state … and bring the state together with stories that highlight what we all love about Alabama.“) has upset Daniel Taylor of 1819 News (“a non-profit LLC that derives its namesake from the year […]
Ramsey, editor-at-large of Mississippi Today and editorial cartoonist, has been working in news for over two decades and is a two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist. He shared the story of his career and some of his cartoons with the Starkville Rotary Club on Monday. Marshall Ramsey gave a talk and Abigail Sipe Rochester for The Columbus […]
I took one look at the beast being transported in this BC (Creators), summoned up my inner eight-year-old and declared it an ankylosaurus, because palaeoscincus wouldn’t have that club on its tail.But I decided I’d better look it up, because I was sure about the tail thing but a little rocky on how to spell […]
For ten years The Nib has been the epitome of combining editorial cartooning and comics journalism. Sadly that will come to an end. Founder Matt Bors informs that the website and magazine will end: I’m afraid I have some bad news. After ten years of publishing, The Nib is going to close down this summer. […]
Some topical humor from Frederic du Bus. Pardon my crude translation: In a world ravaged by global warming, the survivors have taken refuge in a fortress While the horrible Vlad, a serial killer, sows death and tries to recover the iron throne of king Volod Suddenly, the FBI agents intervene, on the back of fabulous […]
Tim Hartman has been the “new” Pittsburgh Post-Gazette editorial cartoonist for over four months now, replacing the Post-Gazette’s previous staff cartoonist Steve Kelley. Don’t know if Tim is staff or freelancer. So let’s go to someone who does, Tim obligingly responded to The Daily Cartoonist’s query: I am freelance at the Post Gazette. However, the […]
The familiar advice to new journalists will never become obsolete: “If your mother says she loves you, check it out.” It might not have saved Dana Summers (Tribune) this time. It is, nonetheless, doubly-good advice, because to begin with, you should always get confirmation before publishing, no matter what kind of no-deadlines pressure you may […]
Today’s Non Sequitur (AMS) starts off a posting which also begins with my admission that I am not a lawyer and this is not legal advice. Close cover before striking. Void where prohibited.Still, before I started critiquing cartoons regularly in 2010, “fair use” and “copyright” were the first things I looked into, including querying the […]