Alden Global Capital Doesn’t Take No For An Answer Alden Global Capital just can’t understand. Why would any newspaper not want to be the next to pass through its digestive tract? As I wrote on Monday, the DallasNews Corporation recently agreed to be acquired by Hearst at the price of $14 a share. Soon after, […]
The 100 year Joint Operating Agreement (JOA) between The Detroit Free Press (Freep) and The Detroit News, begun in 1989, will come to an end after 36 years with the close of 2025.From The Detroit Free Press (by former Gil Thorp writer Neal Rubin): The joint operating agreement that helped sustain two daily newspapers in […]
Shefali Rekhi considers the problems facing cartoonists in Singapore and includes a brief history of cartooning and their colonial roots as seen in The Straits Times. And the international syndication of American comic strips are also a part of the discussion: Also brought to attention is the worldwide problem of digital media vis-a-vis editorial cartooning: […]
Hearst buys Dallas Morning News; Jane Pauley and G. B. Trudeau honored; New York Newsday: Truth, Justice, and the Comics; small town journalists disappearing; journalists in general are disappearing; more newspaper printing plants are shuttered affecting jobs and deadlines; the Associated Press at 179; Rob Tornoe’s Pulitzer cartoon.Hearst Buys The Dallas Morning News From Rick […]
note: this story has been updated to include a KAL interview with the Baltimore BrewAfter 31 years (1988-2006, 2012-2025) Kevin (KAL) Kallaugher has been let go by The Baltimore Sun.From KAL: I am disappointed to announce that after 31 years of award-winning cartoons in The Baltimore Sun, I was abruptly dismissed from the paper on […]
We all know newspapers have seen better days. As Alex Hallatt notes in her latest “Cartooning in the Age of AI” installment at her Illustrated Epistle Substack cartoonists “need multiple sources of income” not least because: Surviving newspaper websites and are losing views to AI searches (which show newspaper content without the reader needing to […]
As print continues its decline, a new challenge has emerged for this workforce: the rise of AI image generators. The first major text-to-image models were released back in 2022 and quickly ignited debates about copyright infringement and labor displacement among illustration communities. In recent weeks, this debate reemerged after ChatGPT rolled out a new image […]
Cartooning Pope Leo XIV Pat Byrnes and the newspaper he rode in on is taken to task by a Yakima Herald-Republic reader: To the editor — I’m Catholic and from Chicago and celebrating the election of the new Pope. But your May 13 cartoon on the editorial page went too far. The depicted “communion wafers” […]
Yeah, your potrzebian correspondent is most of the way through “The MAD Files”, a book collecting essays from various sources about the famed satirical magazine. Which is how this post will be – collecting news items related to cartoonists and cartooning from veeblefetzers near and far. HooHah! How Tom Richmond joined The Usual Gang of […]
The Dallas Morning News (DMN) recently received a letter appealing for a more even-handed approach to the editorial cartoons appearing in their newspaper. The paper acknowledged that it was not the only like-minded request. So, how does The News pick editorial cartoons? And are they disproportionately anti-Trump? DMN Public Editor Stephen Buckley explains the circumstances […]
For World Press Freedom Day Reporters Without Borders has released their 2025 review of journalistic freedom around the world. Spoiler: Of the 180 countries listed the United States is not in the top (best) 50. Although physical attacks against journalists are the most visible violations of press freedom, economic pressure is also a major, more […]
We’ll start with an editorial cartoon that uses a comic strip character of a Pulitzer Prize-wining cartoonist. Dave Whamond does a very good Opus, created by Berkeley Breathed whose Bloom County won a Pulitzer. Dave has also used Charlie Brown and a psuedo-Dennis the Menace lately. The Spokesman-Review of Spokane, Washington, has joined a small […]
Canada’s National Newspaper Awards has announced the finalists for the 2024 awards and in the category for Editorial Cartooning the finalists are Michael de Adder of the Halifax Chronicle Herald/The Globe and Mail; Gabrielle Drolet of The Globe and Mail; and Patrick LaMontagne of the Calgary Herald/Calgary Sun.The cartoonists’ portfolios, along with all the other […]
The Free Lance–Star’s iconic newsboy statue, Lance, has returned to its longtime home in downtown Fredericksburg. For two decades, the bronze statue stood watch in front of the newspaper’s front entrance off Amelia Street, between Douglas Street and Washington Avenue. When the newspaper moved out of downtown in 2016, Lance came along and was installed […]
… Or writes anyway.Tony DePaul, writer of The Phantom, was supposed to join the daily and Sunday artists Mike Manley and Jeff Weigel, on the 300th broadcast of The Phantom Podcast. That didn’t happen due to health issues.But Tony did promise to respond in writing to questions from Phans if the Chronicle Chamber would send […]