SACRAMENTO — California Governor Gavin Newsom is facing a wave of criticism after the official press account for the governor posted an AI-generated cartoon showing White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller leading former President Donald Trump on a leash. International Jewish News reports: Conservative commentators and several Republican officials said the cartoon trafficked […]
President Trump this morning posted a cartoon firing Fed Chairman Jerome Powell. From CNBC: As CNBC points out, “The image appears to be “AI-generated or digitally illustrated,” according to visual analysis by ChatGPT.” No one seems to know if this is real or just a fantasy. Earlier in the day Trump posted an ai generated […]
ImageText, a web-based journal from the Department of English at the University of Florida with free and full public access, has released their most recent and very interesting issue (Vol15 #3) with four feature articles. The articles are: Chris Ware’s New Yorker Covers and American School Shootings by Ryan Banfi The New Yorker commissions and […]
“Watch your step,” says the soldier as he and a medic lead a hostage over a mound of corpses labeled “Over 40,000 Palestinians killed…” The caption reads, “Some Israeli Hostages Are Home After Years of Merciless War.” This cartoon by Jeff Danzinger (Rutland Herald, 1/20/25) was selected by editorial page editor Tony Doris to run […]
Garry B. Trudeau’s Doonesbury comic strip isn’t the powerhouse influencer it was in the mid-1970s when Trudeau won The Pulitzer Prize, made magazine covers, and was mandatory reading by The President of The United States. But it still raises the hackles of the Far Right. Particularly one Peter Parisi, who just can’t not read the […]
Graphika, a network analysis firm, has released a report on foreign actors, specifically Russian, trying to influence the United States midterm elections that includes the use of political cartoons. From the Graphika report: Key Findings Suspected Russian actors are engaged in a renewed effort to target far-right audiences in the U.S. with politically divisive messaging […]
Graphic Illustrator or Cartoonist? What is a graphic illustrator? A graphic illustrator is a professional who creates illustrations with the help of computer software, application, or by hand. They create visual content such as logos that help their clients display their intentions and messages. To be a graphic illustrator is not easy as it requires […]
To the delight of some and the dismay of others, the socialist idea continues to slowly, if very belatedly, make its way throughout the channels of American culture. Of particular recent note was its appearance in Dilbert, the daily comic strip send-up of the foibles of corporate office life. Of course, since it is the […]
From the Stockton (Ca.) Record: Also, last week we made a change to the comics by dropping “Mallard Fillmore.” Years ago, The Record originally published “Doonesbury” and “Mallard Fillmore” as counterpoints in the Opinion pages and later, both were moved to the comics pages. When “Doonesbury” creator Garry Trudeau stopped creating new daily strips in […]
A Dennis Draughon editorial cartoon is taking some heat. From the right-of-center The Hill: North Carolina’s first Black lieutenant governor held a press conference on Tuesday to express outrage over a political cartoon that linked him and other members of the State Board of Education to the Ku Klux Klan for their opposition to allowing teachers to […]
From The Federalist: Google-owned YouTube shut down Dilbert Comic strip creator Scott Adams on Friday, stripping a video off the platform from the podcaster’s channel without warning. The Federalist posts the notice from Scott’s Twitter feed where it is currrent the “pinned” tweet. Real Coffee with Scott Adams is the cartoonist’s YouTube channel, where all […]
Exuberant President Trump supporter Scott (“Dilbert”) Adams has taken Trump’s failure to denounce white supremacy as a personal affront, and that cost him Adams’s vote. Mediaite reports: The Dilbert creator explained that he was excited when the “fine people hoax” came up again and expected Trump to shut down “the lie,” but was incredibly disappointed […]
Earlier this year a Daniel Brannan cartoon caused a bit of a fuss. Well, Daniel is not one to let the dust settle. From the Coeur d’Alene Press at the beginning of this month: Bigoted postcards arrived in Coeur d’Alene mailboxes Thursday, prompting outrage and solidarity from community leaders and candidates. The postcard, postmarked with […]
Original October 29, 2019 item: Daniel Cameron, Republican candidate for Kentucky Attorney General, posted about a Lexington Herald-Leader cartoon by Joel Pett on his twitter feed: Which led the Florida-based Biz Pac Review political news site (“breaking news and analysis unfiltered by the liberal bias that has eroded the media’s credibility”) to take up the […]
Spring of 2019 and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell proudly takes on the mantle of the Grim Reaper when Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi uses a prop to show Senate inaction on House bills. “She’s got it right,” McConnell said about Pelosi. “For the first time in my memory, I’m going to agree with […]